Practicing Connection
Improve your resilience and readiness in a rapidly changing world.
Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch host this exploration of personal and collective practices that empower us to work together to help each other, our families, and our communities improve our resilience and readiness.
Practicing Connection
Leveraging the Community Assets to Support Military Families
In this episode of the Practicing Connection podcast, hosts Jessica and Bob explore the Community Capitals Framework, a powerful tool from community development that can enhance your work with military families. They discuss how this framework, developed by Jan and Cornelia Flora, identifies seven types of capital—natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built—and how these capitals can be leveraged to build resilient and supportive communities for military families.
Jessica and Bob dive into practical examples, such as the Stronghold Food Pantry at Fort Leavenworth and the collaborative efforts at Malmstrom Air Force Base, to illustrate how different capitals can be strategically utilized. They also share insights from books like "Strategic Doing" and "Holding Change," which offer valuable perspectives on asset-based approaches and the importance of small-scale changes in group facilitation.
Links
- Strategic Doing
- Holding Change
- Community Capitals Framework
- Spiraling-Up: Mapping Community Transformation with Community Capitals Framework
- Feeding Military Families with Stronghold Food Pantry CEO Monica Bassett
- An Ecosystem of Military Family Support with Nicola Winkel
- Partnering on Early Education for Military Kids
- Coming Together to Support Military Families in Military Bay, USA
- Reconnecting with Nature: Health and Well-Being for Military Communities
