Start Date
6-6-2013 3:10 PM
End Date
6-6-2013 4:40 PM
Description
City-Youth Empowerment Project (CYEP) was established in 2005 as a non-credit bearing service-learning project open to all students at the City University of Hong Kong, with a mission to mobilize students to serve the underprivileged, to enhance civic and global social commitment, and to integrate community practice-oriented knowledge to the academic field. With over 30 community organization partnerships, CYEP provides ongoing services for underprivileged children and youth affected by poverty, new arrivals status, minor crime, and disabilities; as well as hidden elderly, mental health consumers, while actively involved in environmental protection and disability rights. As part of the transformative pedagogical experience, students actively participate in the research process that represents a rich “transaction” with living veins of social and academic exchanges. Research goals are focused on effective convergent outcomes of the students, communities, and academic institution; grounded in cross-cultural perspectives.
1) The definitional model study seeks the understanding of a working definition of volunteerism and its operational boundaries for practice implications.
2) The investigating of implicit motivations in volunteerism has yet to be explored. In partnership with the University of Tilburg, the mixed-method study of motivational systems focuses on how the interaction of the implicit and explicit motivations can affect the volunteers’ experience and outcomes. Previous research has pointed to the significance of organizational support as integral to generate optimal volunteer outcomes. Segued from the study on motivational systems, CYEP studies the impact of organizational support in the form of motivation-service matching & supervision and group matching on volunteers’ satisfaction, commitment, and performance - giving helpful insight into effective volunteer management strategies.
3) Based on the operational principle that young adults will be particularly responsive to working with children and youth as they can capitalize on the “well of coping reserve” from their own experience, it can also be a correctional experience and reconstruction of the volunteers’ negative childhood narrative. Integrating aspects of attachment theories, holding environment, and other psychodynamic elements- qualitative studies conducted are focused on the impact of children and youth work on the development of young adults.
Recommended Citation
Liu, S. C. E., & Ching, C. (2013, June). Community empowerment through integration of service, learning, and research: City-Youth Empowerment Project. Paper presented at the 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning: Service-Learning as a Bridge from Local to Global: Connected world, Connected future, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.
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Community empowerment through integration of service, learning, and research : City-Youth Empowerment Project
City-Youth Empowerment Project (CYEP) was established in 2005 as a non-credit bearing service-learning project open to all students at the City University of Hong Kong, with a mission to mobilize students to serve the underprivileged, to enhance civic and global social commitment, and to integrate community practice-oriented knowledge to the academic field. With over 30 community organization partnerships, CYEP provides ongoing services for underprivileged children and youth affected by poverty, new arrivals status, minor crime, and disabilities; as well as hidden elderly, mental health consumers, while actively involved in environmental protection and disability rights. As part of the transformative pedagogical experience, students actively participate in the research process that represents a rich “transaction” with living veins of social and academic exchanges. Research goals are focused on effective convergent outcomes of the students, communities, and academic institution; grounded in cross-cultural perspectives.
1) The definitional model study seeks the understanding of a working definition of volunteerism and its operational boundaries for practice implications.
2) The investigating of implicit motivations in volunteerism has yet to be explored. In partnership with the University of Tilburg, the mixed-method study of motivational systems focuses on how the interaction of the implicit and explicit motivations can affect the volunteers’ experience and outcomes. Previous research has pointed to the significance of organizational support as integral to generate optimal volunteer outcomes. Segued from the study on motivational systems, CYEP studies the impact of organizational support in the form of motivation-service matching & supervision and group matching on volunteers’ satisfaction, commitment, and performance - giving helpful insight into effective volunteer management strategies.
3) Based on the operational principle that young adults will be particularly responsive to working with children and youth as they can capitalize on the “well of coping reserve” from their own experience, it can also be a correctional experience and reconstruction of the volunteers’ negative childhood narrative. Integrating aspects of attachment theories, holding environment, and other psychodynamic elements- qualitative studies conducted are focused on the impact of children and youth work on the development of young adults.