"New Voices at the Civic Table: Facilitating Personal and Social Change" by Laura T. Pinsoneault and Linda Nguyen
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DOI

10.4087/FOUNDATIONREVIEW-D-09-00035.1

Key Points

· This article describes six pilot initiatives of the Alliance for Children and Families -- New Voices at the Civic Table (New Voices), a philanthropy-funded effort to challenge human service organizations to integrate civic engagement as a permanent part of their infrastructure.

· All six New Voices models included common elements: leadership training, civic education, experiential learning, participatory decision-making, networking, and reflective evaluation.

· Each also reflected one of four primary variations to civic engagement based on their community needs and demands: self-efficacy, constituent involvement, mobilizing, and organizing.

· Results demonstrate that civic engagement in human services not only produces a means for promoting social change but also changes the way participants see themselves in the community.

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