By discussing outreach tools and methods, planning and organization, and assessment, this article opens the conversation to all hospital librarians on providing virtual outreach and more.
Post-overdose outreach programs engage survivors in harm reduction and treatment to prevent future overdoses. In Massachusetts, these emerging programs commonly deploy teams comprised of police and ...public health professionals based on 911 call information. Some teams use name/address data to conduct arrest warrant checks prior to outreach visits. We used mixed methods to understand approaches to outreach related to warrant checking, from the perspectives of police and public health outreach agencies and staff.
We analyzed a 2019 statewide survey of post-overdose outreach programs in Massachusetts to classify approaches to warrant checking and identify program and community factors associated with particular approaches. Ethnographic analysis of qualitative interviews conducted with outreach staff helped further contextualize outreach program practices related to warrants.
A majority (57% - 79/138) of post-overdose outreach programs in Massachusetts conducted warrant checks prior to outreach. Among programs that checked warrants, we formulated a taxonomy of approaches to handling warrants: 1) performing outreach without addressing warrants (19.6% - 27/138), 2) delaying outreach until warrants are cleared (15.9% - 22/138), 3) arresting the survivor (11/138 – 8.0%), 4) taking a situational approach (10/138 – 7.2%), 5) not performing outreach (9/138 – 6.5%). Program characteristics and staff training did not vary across approaches. From police and public health outreach staff interviews (n = 38), we elicited four major themes: a) diverse motivations precede warrant checking, b) police officers feel tension between dual roles, c) warrants alter approaches to outreach, and d) teams leverage warrants in relationships. Findings from both analyses converged to demonstrate unintended consequences of warrant checking.
Checking warrants prior to post-overdose outreach visits can result in arrest, delayed outreach, and barriers to obtaining services for overdose survivors, which can undermine the goal of these programs to engage overdose survivors. With the public health imperative of engaging overdose survivors, programs should consider limiting warrant checking and police participation in field activities.
What motivates “ordinary people” to support refugees emotionally and financially? This is a timely question considering the number of displaced people in today’s world is at an all-time high. To help ...counter this crisis, it is imperative for the Canadian government to determine which policies encourage volunteers to welcome asylum seekers, and which ones must be reviewed. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Actions relates the story of the St. Joseph’s Parish Refugee Outreach Committee over its thirty years in action, revealing how seemingly small decisions and actions have led to significant changes in policies and in people’s lives—and how they can do so again in the future. By helping readers—young and old, secular and faith-oriented—understand what drives individuals and communities to welcome refugees with open hearts and open arms, the authors hope to inspire people across Canada and beyond its borders to strengthen our collective willingness and ability to offer refuge as a lifesaving protection for those who need it.
Background
Despite the prevalence and potential of K–12 engineering outreach programs, the moment‐to‐moment dynamics of outreach educators' facilitation of engineering learning experiences are ...understudied. There is a need to identify outreach educators' teaching moves and to explore the implications of these moves.
Purpose/Hypothesis
We offer a preliminary framework for characterizing engineering outreach educators' teaching moves in relation to principles of ambitious instruction. This study describes outreach educators' teaching moves and identifies learning opportunities afforded by these moves.
Design/Method
Through discourse analysis of video recordings of a university‐led engineering outreach program, we identified teaching moves of novice engineering outreach educators in interaction with elementary student design teams. We considered 18 outreach educators' teaching moves through a lens of ambitious instruction.
Results
In small group interactions, outreach educators used ambitious, conservative, and inclusive teaching moves. These novice educators utilized talk moves that centered students' ideas and agency. Ambitious moves included two novel teaching moves: design check‐ins and revoicing tangible manifestations of students' ideas. Ambitious moves offered students opportunities to engage in engineering design. Conservative moves provided opportunities for students to make technical and affective progress, and to experience engineering norms.
Conclusions
Our work is formative in describing engineering outreach educators' teaching moves and points to outreach educators' capability in using ambitious moves. Ambitious engineering instruction may be a useful framework for designing engineering outreach to support students' participation and progress in engineering design. Additionally, conservative teaching moves, typically considered constraining, may support productive student affect and engagement in engineering design.
•Post-overdose outreach has emerged as a way to mitigate future overdose risk.•We identified 157 programs in Massachusetts with a two-part cross-sectional survey.•Overdose survivors were identified ...almost always via police-supplied 911 call data.•Outreach teams usually consisted of police, recovery coaches, or harm reductionists.•Teams provided or made referrals to OD prevention, treatment, and recovery support.
As a response to mounting overdose fatalities, cross-agency outreach efforts have emerged to reduce future risk among overdose survivors. We aimed to characterize such programs in Massachusetts, with focus on team composition, approach, services provided, and funding.
We conducted a two-phase cross-sectional survey of public health and safety providers in Massachusetts. Providers in all 351 municipalities received a screening survey. Those with programs received a second, detailed survey. We analyzed responses using descriptive statistics.
As of July 2019, 44 % (156/351) of Massachusetts municipalities reported post-overdose outreach programs, with 75 % (104/138) formed between 2016−2019. Teams conducted home-based outreach 1–3 days following overdose events. Police departments typically supplied location information on overdose events (99 %, 136/138) and commonly participated in outreach visits (86 %, 118/138) alongside public health personnel, usually from community-based organizations. Teams provided or made referrals to services including inpatient addiction treatment, recovery support, outpatient medication, overdose prevention education, and naloxone. Some programs deployed law enforcement tools, including pre-visit warrant queries (57 %, 79/138), which occasionally led to arrest (11 %, 9/79). Many programs (81 %, 112/138) assisted families with involuntary commitment to treatment – although this was usually considered an option of last resort. Most programs were grant-funded (76 %, 104/136) and engaged in cross-municipal collaboration (94 %, 130/138).
Post-overdose outreach programs have expanded, typically as collaborations between police and public health. Further research is needed to better understand the implications of involving police and to determine best practices for increasing engagement in treatment and harm reduction services and reduce subsequent overdose.
Museen und Outreach Scharf, Ivana; Wunderlich, Dagmar; Heisig, Julia
07/2018
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Wie erreichen Museen eine diversere, die Gesellschaft widerspiegelnde Besucherschaft? Welche Ansätze kuratorischer Arbeit braucht es, um neue Formen von Narrativen zu entwickeln? Welche ...Fragestellungen ergeben sich dadurch in Bezug auf Führungskultur, Personalstrukturen und Arbeitsweisen? Wie ist es möglich, mit neuen Partnerschaften und strategischen Allianzen Relevanz für mehr Menschen zu erreichen? Mit einer Outreach-Strategie können Museen gezielt mit individuell entwickelten Programmen auf eine Diversifizierung der Besucherschaft und auf die Veränderung der Organisationskultur hinwirken.
Dieses Buch zeigt die Stärken von Outreach als strategischem Diversity-Instrument. Es liefert eine Definition von Outreach, entwirft einen Überblick über den Forschungsstand zur aktuellen demographischen und sozioökonomischen Situation des Museumspublikums, zeichnet die historische Entwicklung von Outreach im internationalen Zusammenhang nach und stellt dar, wie sich Outreach im Kontext von Audience Development, Sozialer Inklusion, Partizipation und Empowerment verortet.
Es werden verschiedene Outreach-Formate wie Museumsboxen und -koffer, Mobile Museen und Satellitenmuseen sowie digitale Outreach-Formate wie Webseiten, Social Media, Apps, digitale Sammlungen, MOOCs und digitale Strategien vorgestellt. Beispiele aus der musealen Praxis in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Skandinavien und den Niederlanden mit Erfahrungsberichten aus Interviews veranschaulichen diese Formate. Ein Blick geht dabei auch in andere Bereiche und Kultursparten wie Oper und klassische Musik, Bibliothekswesen und Wissenschaft.
Zusammenfassend werden Grundlagen und konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen zur Planung und Umsetzung einer Outreach-Strategie erläutert und Empfehlungen für kulturpolitische Rahmenbedingungen gegeben.
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