Faml 430 || A+ Graded.
serving different from helping or fixing correct answers Serving: drawn from experiences'
relationship between equals; wholeness of us serves the wholeness of others; the
healing/reward is mutual; another person is NOT broken
Helping: based on inequality; see them as needier than you are; diminishes the other person's
self-worth; incurs debt; other person is broken; fixing is judgmental
Drawing on Remen's distinction between helping, fixing and serving, how would you
recommend a community program addressing poverty (i.e., food bank, homeless shelter)
serve those in need? How might they change their attitude/approach? correct answers In food
banks and shelters, they tend to separate themselves from those they are serving food to
(always standing behind a table or something). They can change by sitting with them and
conversing with them - treating them as normal people, because that is what they are.
Instead of being in control, they can serve better by letting the others have some control. Get
their opinions on things and how they should be done.
They can have their missions more focuses on the wholeness of the people that they serve,
and that volunteers should see them as their equals, because that is what they are.
traditional program approach correct answers provides support and education to individual
families or small group of families in order to increase their well-being.
Family professionals take primary responsibility for defining the problem and developing the
curriculum or intervention
does not provide the tools to engage families as change agents in their communities.
family and democracy approach correct answers offers a framework for working with
families as active citizens in communities.
Have a public work model: shows human beings as producers and co-creators of the world
and stresses the importance of 'public' life and democratic relational power (practice-oriented
approach to community engagement.
Strengthening families must be done by the families themselves.
7 principles of the Families and Democracy model correct answers o Strengthening families
in our time must be done mostly by families themselves, working democratically in local
communities
o The greatest untapped resource for strengthening families is the knowledge, wisdom, and
lived experience of families and their communities
o Families must be engaged as producers and contributors to their communities, and not just
as clients or consumers of services
, o Professionals can play an important role in family initiatives when they learn to partner
with families in identifying challenges, mobilizing resources, generating plans, and carrying
out public actions
o If you begin with an established program, you will not end up with an initiative that is
'owned and operated' by citizens. But a citizen initiative might create or adopt a program as
one of its activities
o A local community of families becomes energized when it retrieves its own historical,
cultural, and religious traditions about family life - and brings these into the contemporary
world of family life.
o Family and democracy initiatives should have a bold vision (a BHAG - a big, hairy,
audacious goal) while working pragmatically on focused, specific goals.
What are the characteristics and actions of a citizen professional? correct answers o Identity:
seeing oneself first as a citizen with special expertise working alongside other citizens with
their own special expertise in order to solve community problems that require everyone's
effort. Things cannot be solved by professionals working alone.
o Body of Knowledge: about connections between personal and public dimensions of their
professional practice
o Set of Skills: can facilitate public conversations and catalyzing public action. Able to
skillfully interweave the personal and public dimensions of the issues they and their patients
or clients face. Able to bring together other citizens for public conversations and sometimes
for small, local action projects to address community needs.
o Primary base in service delivery
o Have access to rich tradition of community based participatory research: close collaboration
between researcher and a community of other citizens in every stage of project.
Rotary International correct answers Mission: we provide service to others, promote integrity,
and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business,
professional, and community leaders
Established: 1905
Name Choice: they rotated club meetings to each member's office every week
Services: top priority is the global eradication of polio (crippling and fatal disease in
Africa/Asia); sponsors the largest privately funded international scholarship program in the
world
World's first service club organization
Kiwanis International correct answers Mission: a global organization of volunteers dedicated
to improving the world one child and one community at a time
serving different from helping or fixing correct answers Serving: drawn from experiences'
relationship between equals; wholeness of us serves the wholeness of others; the
healing/reward is mutual; another person is NOT broken
Helping: based on inequality; see them as needier than you are; diminishes the other person's
self-worth; incurs debt; other person is broken; fixing is judgmental
Drawing on Remen's distinction between helping, fixing and serving, how would you
recommend a community program addressing poverty (i.e., food bank, homeless shelter)
serve those in need? How might they change their attitude/approach? correct answers In food
banks and shelters, they tend to separate themselves from those they are serving food to
(always standing behind a table or something). They can change by sitting with them and
conversing with them - treating them as normal people, because that is what they are.
Instead of being in control, they can serve better by letting the others have some control. Get
their opinions on things and how they should be done.
They can have their missions more focuses on the wholeness of the people that they serve,
and that volunteers should see them as their equals, because that is what they are.
traditional program approach correct answers provides support and education to individual
families or small group of families in order to increase their well-being.
Family professionals take primary responsibility for defining the problem and developing the
curriculum or intervention
does not provide the tools to engage families as change agents in their communities.
family and democracy approach correct answers offers a framework for working with
families as active citizens in communities.
Have a public work model: shows human beings as producers and co-creators of the world
and stresses the importance of 'public' life and democratic relational power (practice-oriented
approach to community engagement.
Strengthening families must be done by the families themselves.
7 principles of the Families and Democracy model correct answers o Strengthening families
in our time must be done mostly by families themselves, working democratically in local
communities
o The greatest untapped resource for strengthening families is the knowledge, wisdom, and
lived experience of families and their communities
o Families must be engaged as producers and contributors to their communities, and not just
as clients or consumers of services
, o Professionals can play an important role in family initiatives when they learn to partner
with families in identifying challenges, mobilizing resources, generating plans, and carrying
out public actions
o If you begin with an established program, you will not end up with an initiative that is
'owned and operated' by citizens. But a citizen initiative might create or adopt a program as
one of its activities
o A local community of families becomes energized when it retrieves its own historical,
cultural, and religious traditions about family life - and brings these into the contemporary
world of family life.
o Family and democracy initiatives should have a bold vision (a BHAG - a big, hairy,
audacious goal) while working pragmatically on focused, specific goals.
What are the characteristics and actions of a citizen professional? correct answers o Identity:
seeing oneself first as a citizen with special expertise working alongside other citizens with
their own special expertise in order to solve community problems that require everyone's
effort. Things cannot be solved by professionals working alone.
o Body of Knowledge: about connections between personal and public dimensions of their
professional practice
o Set of Skills: can facilitate public conversations and catalyzing public action. Able to
skillfully interweave the personal and public dimensions of the issues they and their patients
or clients face. Able to bring together other citizens for public conversations and sometimes
for small, local action projects to address community needs.
o Primary base in service delivery
o Have access to rich tradition of community based participatory research: close collaboration
between researcher and a community of other citizens in every stage of project.
Rotary International correct answers Mission: we provide service to others, promote integrity,
and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business,
professional, and community leaders
Established: 1905
Name Choice: they rotated club meetings to each member's office every week
Services: top priority is the global eradication of polio (crippling and fatal disease in
Africa/Asia); sponsors the largest privately funded international scholarship program in the
world
World's first service club organization
Kiwanis International correct answers Mission: a global organization of volunteers dedicated
to improving the world one child and one community at a time
