From Etiquette to IRB: A Survey of Community Responsibilities and Relationships
Full training schedule: all BC courses
Full training schedule: all BC courses
| Premester week Instructor: Young, et al 4 hours Course Goals At the end of the course you will understand the responsibilities of leaders based on circumstances, relationships, intentions, agreements, customs, ethics, conventions and law. You will be able to recognize sets of responsibilities and associate them with projects, positions and relationships. You will understand how and when to effectively intervene and lead. Introduction Why is training needed? Scale and scope of the problem. What are we preparing for? Who covers what? (OSLE, PPS, Bonner, IRB etc) Examples Etiquette Good manners, social awareness Cultural competency, or intercultural competency Namaste Understanding Racism Guilford’s voluntary program Belmont Report Basis of required ethical review board Institutional Review Board (IRB) Ethical treatment of human participants, with legal implications Relations between whom?
Mapping Relationships
Example of a formalized set of relationships
Bonner Leadership Network: Fellows, Coordinators, ScholarsLeaders build teams recruited from volunteers, Bonner and Community Scholars and students from classrooms in order to run sites and projects. Sites and projects are funded from several sources such as clubs and BAB (Bonner Advisory Board). 
2013-2014 Theoretical Model of a Community Site
Concept Map of Latino Impact Relationships
Relationship Terms Volunteers or students? No, they are learners, ie, students Bonner Scholar, PPS Scholar, Community Scholar, etc AmeriCorps Intern Site coordinator Project coordinator Team member, teammate Volunteer Natural helper Community advocate Community health worker, lay health adviser Cultural broker Technical assistant Interpreter, Translator could be professionally trained Health navigator could be professionally trained Caseworker professionally trained Primary investigator (PI), Co-PI professionally trained Research assistant professionally trained Training Recruiting Criteria for good candidate? Screening Why a background check? Registering Why track who’s on site? Rights of Participants, Community Members, Clients Assumption that rights need to be protected Why? Unequal power relationships Such as? Privacy Guidelines These might cover Photos Media Names Minors and other individuals and issues These might be intended to protect Volunteers Community participants Patients, clients, etc Uninvolved bystanders Your position determines your action Anthropologist’s approach to engagement Lawyer's approach to engagement Police officer’s approach Captain’s approach vs private’s approach Some professions are guided by a code of ethics Journalism ethics Medical practioners ethics • At your community site or project, what is your position? Rights of Human Participants, Human Test Subjects • As you plan for the future of your project or site be aware of the nature of the relationships you strive to create • These relations imply obligations. In some special instances, they imply legal obligations or risk. As a leader, you must be aware of these possibilities. • Your concept map and plans must anticipate the possible obligations and challenges of these relations. Include them in your thinking and planning. Terms BAB (Bonner Advisory Board) Bonner Foundation money tagged for student projects. Moneys must be requested and approved in advance by an authorizing board of Bonner students. Campus versus community We usually refer to everyone at Guilford, from administrators to students, as the “campus” in contrast to the larger surrounding city of many neighborhoods, businesses, organizations, institutions etc, which we refer to as “community”. Club In Guilford College culture, the way in which some projects, sites and events are funded. Cultural competency A special kind of training about understanding how to live outside your own culture and understand and appreciate other cultures. Dollars, Talent, Task and Time (budget) Think about not what you want to do but how you will do it. A budget means who (talent) will do what (task) when (time) with what resources. Leadership Network In 2014-2015, nobody works alone. Resume In 2014-2015, everybody has to know what skills they're building and how they will describe them on a resume. Project A project coordinator oversees a project. A series of planned events bounded by a stated beginning and end, with goals and a budget and a logic model (means of measuring effectiveness and success). Project Community Technically, Project Community is a club. Historically, however, it functions as campus-based site dedicated to encouraging Guilfordians to be involved in community service. Reflection Reflection is the minimum level of feedback leaders should capture as a way of evaluating progress. It occurs on the individual and team level and asks participants about their views on personal, individual and team performance within the context of a stated mission, goal, action or event. Other forms of feedback include project and site-level evaluations, post-mortem, or after-action. All feedback must be “fed-back” into the process, individual and collective experience, project or site in order for the team to advance, project to succeed or site to grow. Resume As a personal, academic and professional goal, we want you to consider how you connect your community engagement experiences with your resume and portfolio. If you haven’t done so, inform your faculty adviser and other faculty members you work with about your community engagement work. Site A community site is a physical place with regular hours. It represents an on-going relationship between Bonner Center and a host organization or community, neighborhood, etc. A site coordinator team oversees a site. Team The basic action unit through which community work is accomplished by us. Although students can operate individually (a team of one), we prefer teams that are sustainable and can distribute workloads. Training To be on site or part of a project, participants must be prepared. If you're a leader, you will need training (Premester). Leaders will train their team members at CSI (Community Service Institute). Summary  | How do I ... learn more about current community needs? ... figure out how to assess a community partner's needs? ...register for Guilford County Schools’ background check? ... learn more about Guilford College’s IRB? Sources The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman, 1959 US government definition of volunteers Belmont Report |
