A Public Workshop about Outcomes Mapping

- an integrated system of planning, monitoring & evaluation –

Friday October 1st, 2010    9:00 am to 11:45 am   Cost: $25

Peterborough Public Library, Downstairs Meeting Room,
345 Aylmer St. N., Downtown Peterborough

Inputs, outputs, outcomes and impacts, where is the logic in complex change?

How do we plan for and measure our contributions to change?

Who is changing and in what ways, as a result of our programs and services?

And, how do we know if we can take credit for the change?

Are you wondering how to plan for and evaluate individual and social change?

Are you frustrated with measuring outputs and having no evidence of your programs outcomes?

Come out to a workshop introducing a powerful method for planning and evaluating complex change called Outcome Mapping…

*For further information on outcome mapping as well as examples of how it has been used, visit www.outcomemapping.ca

Cost: This workshop is $25 to cover room rental, refreshments and facilitator fees. Cheques can be made out to Heidi Schaeffer and payments mailed to #1696 9^th Line, Seymour Campbellford, K0L 1L0. A receipt will be emailed to you. If the cost is a barrier get in touch and we can work something out.

Registration: Please contact Heidi Schaeffer at: heidis(at)xplornet(dot)com

Space is limited – register soon! Please put “OM workshop” in the subject line of your email.

A production in partnership with the Peterborough Community Learning Network – an emerging grassroots network to share ideas and knowledge about community-based research, evaluation and planning - facilitated by the Trent Centre for Community Based Education, the Peterborough Social Planning Council and the YWCA’s Compass Training Centre. Please join us!

The College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada are cosponsoring the conference, "Community-Engaged Scholarship: Critical Junctures in Research, Practice and Policy" on November 4-5, 2010 in Guelph, Ontario Canada. Abstracts for oral papers and poster presentations are due Sept 3. Details at http://criticaljunctures.ca

Community-engaged scholarship (CES) and community-academic partnerships are gaining momentum in higher education institutions. The Canadian tri-council funding bodies have moved aggressively towards increasing support for community-engaged research and knowledge mobilization efforts. Yet there is a well articulated disjuncture between calls for social relevance, knowledge translation and mobilization, community based research, service learning and engagement more broadly, and the resources, structures and tenure policies that continue in Canadian universities. This conference will surface and address important questions in this challenging arena by identifying current and critical research and practice.

The conference will convene national and international scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to present and discuss emerging research on community-engaged scholarship (CES) in higher education and its implications for research, practice and policy. Specifically, the conference will examine current research on faculty engagement, faculty development, promotion and tenure processes and institutional change strategies from Canada and abroad that facilitate CES.

Confirmed speakers include:

    * Sherril Gelmon (Portland State University) on Setting the Stage: The Landscape of Community Engaged-Scholarship
    * Lynn Blanchard (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) on The Development of Community-Engaged Scholars
    * Barbara Holland (University of Sydney) on Structures and Policies that Support Community-Engaged Scholarship
    * Rhonda Lenton (York University) on Strategies for Institutional Change

For more information, please visit http://criticaljunctures.ca

September 6-9, 2010

Engage with like-minded (and other-minded) people in conversations about historical and current philosophies underpinning Participatory Action research (PAR) / Action Research (AR) / Action Learning (AL), debate issues of power, deepen your understanding of methodologies and be inspired by accounts of contemporary practices/praxis.

Be stimulated by critical dialogues and reflections within the ‘applied' streams of: Ecology and its several areas of engagement; Community Development; International Development; Health and Wellbeing (including the various ‘welfare' fields of engagement); Systems /Business / Organizational Development; Education and Learning, from pre-school to post-graduate; and Decolonizing praxis, including cross-cultural learning with Indigenous and other Peoples and contexts.

Gather materials, shared-knowledge and contacts to take PAR / AR / AL with you into workplaces, associations, organizations and lives. Brush up on the basics of PAR / AR / AL and their current present-day practices, their commonalities and diversity.

Location: Bayview Eden, 8 Queens Rd, MELBOURNE, VIC, Australia

For more information, click here.

Tenth International Research Conference on Service-learning and Community Engagement International Perspectives: Crossing Boundaries through Research October 28 - 30, 2010

The Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Center for Service and Learning, Indiana Campus Compact, and the International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement is proud to invite you to the Tenth International Research Conference on Service-learning and Community Engagement. Click HERE to go to the 2010 conference website.