How-To-Guide | Youth Design Camp

By Mercedes Fraser, CEDIK Senior Extension Associate and Community Design
Published on May. 1, 2024

In the summer of 2023, R.L. Brown Foundation director, Alice Hilton, and CEDIK Senior Extension Associate, Mercedes Fraser collaborated to host the Sharpsburg Youth Design Camp in Sharpsburg, Kentucky.

Publication | Ripple Effects Mapping

By Dr. Nicole Breazeale, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Published on Jul. 1, 2022

Much of what we do in Extension is educational in nature. Our evaluation methods have thus historically focused on individual-level impacts, such as what our participants have learned or are doing differently because of our programming (Chazdon, 2022). But what about the broad community-level impacts of our work?

Publication | Story Circles: A Powerful Engagement Technique

By Dr. Nicole Breazeale, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Published on Dec. 1, 2021

A story circle is a highly structured engagement technique that comes out of the field of cultural community development. Story circles involve a group of people who each share a personal experience based on a specific storytelling prompt, with no conversation allowed until the debriefing and analysis stage at the end (“cross- talk”).