Community Development Assistant
LOCATION
SCHEDULE OPTIONS
Semester availability
FallSpring
Summer
Service hours
MorningAfternoon
Evening
Weekend
Available days/hours
Times are flexible, as per student needs
REQUIRED/DESIRED SKILLS
Desire to work hands on in Guadalupe; to help communities transform themselves using their assets. Willing to get involved with people there, develop relationships, ask questions and help train and coach the community to solve their challenges with their assets.
Desire to help with facilitation, training, coaching and relationship development with many people in Guadalupe
CATEGORIES
AdultsSports / Fitness
Technology
Youth (direct interaction)
Youth II: 5-11 years (K-6th grades)
Youth III: 11-14 years (6th-9th grades)
Youth IV: 14-18 years (high school)
COMMUNITY PARTNER
Arizona Neighborhood Transformation
ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP
Duties
Intern will help doing Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) in Guadalupe Arizona (Between Tempe and Phoenix along east side of I10). This will consistent of three major types of work.
1) First, they will assist with current programs in the community, which include a community run basketball team and a community run youth tutoring program. The tutoring program is new, so the intern will spend time working with the community and partners to get this program up and running effectively. Both program serve about 35 students age 6 to 18 years of age.
2) Second, they will take an active role doing ABCD in the community: community listening, asset mapping, challenge prioritization with the community, community association development and project definition to address their challenges. Currently we have about 50 people in the community involved in the basketball and youth tutoring. The desire is to double this impact in terms of people and to expand to the next layer of challenges the community wants to take on. The intern will help listen to community, find their assets and help them channel these assets to address their challenges via community association driven programs.
3) Third, the intern will help us expand out partnerships with people in groups both inside and outside Guadalupe as well as help us tell the story better via Facebook and the Web. This will let us improve our communication about what the community is doing and better link others to what is going on in Guadalupe, being driven by the local community.
Population served
Guadalupe consists of about 5500 people on the east side of I10, between Elliot Road and Baseline Road; about 0.8 square miles. 51% of the community is Native American and 62% Hispanic (including Native American). 33% of the population lives below the poverty line (over twice the Arizona average of 15%). Little business exists in the community (retail sales per capita are 25% of Arizona average). Only half the adult population has high school education (compared with 85% for Arizona) and 5% of the adults have college degrees (compared with 26% of Arizona.
Community need/impact
Guadalupe is an under served area with a long history of having government and non profit services applied to help. We are focused on working with the people of Guadalupe and helping them find their voice, their dreams and their assets and assisting them to knit these dreams and assets into real solutions for their challenges. These solutions would be owned by the community and be run for and by the community. Transformation would be sustainable and would multiple through the community; individual to individual.
People find they are capability of making positive changes. These start to transform people and as more people transform communities transform. People develop sustainable and growing development opportunities based on what they have and what they want to do. People start dealing with external organizations (NP, government, etc) and other partners based on a more proactive and focused manner; aiming these services to support the long term community direction.
