ERIC Number: EJ1113160
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Aug
Pages: 4
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Effective Community-Engaged Outreach Practices with Immigrant Communities
Smalkoski, Kari; Axtell, Sara; Zimmer, Jeanne; Noor, Ibrahim
Journal of Extension, v54 n4 Article 4COM1 Aug 2016
Generic outreach approaches are commonly used to target as many individuals as possible in a cultural community to achieve a greater response rate. However, this one-size-fits-all tactic is rarely effective. Community-engaged outreach practices have been successful with immigrant communities in Minnesota's Twin Cities. When practitioners, clinicians, and scholars engage in these practices, they not only build trusting relationships with cultural communities over time but also achieve mutual benefit, reciprocity, and the leveraging of institutional resources.
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Immigrants, Community Programs, Extension Agents, Extension Education, Trust (Psychology), Hmong People, Foreign Countries
Extension Journal, Inc. e-mail: joe-ed@joe.org; Web site: http://www.joe.org
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Minnesota; Somalia
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