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• Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Picom and Community-University Intersection
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Regional Context Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec

• Unemployment rate one of the highest in Canada
• Young people are leaving the region
• Replacement of major primary transformation
  industries (pulp and paper, aluminum) by SMEs
• Population has taken ownership of their social
  and economic development
• Pioneers in community development, social
  development and social economy organisations

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Our Partners

• They are Coordinating Committees from several
  Federation of Community Organisations
• Comité régional de développement social du
  Centre-du- Québec
• InterCDC Centre-du-Québec
• Comité régional déconomie sociale du
  Centre-du-Québec
• Consortium de développement social de la Mauricie
• InterCDC de la Mauricie
• Économie sociale de Francheville

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Community InterventionProject - Picom

• Experiential education approach involving
  university members and community organisations,
  with the following objectives
• Heighten awareness of community action values
• Contribute to the development of community
  services

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General Characteristics

• Student teams (2 to 5) develop and carry out a
  project
• Community challenge
• Mentor designated by the organisation accompanies
  the team of students
• Supervision by a professor
• Dissemination of the results and reflective
  thinking about the knowledge and skills acquired

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3 Types of Picoms

• Picom institutional course
• Picom within disciplinary courses
• Community-University Intersection

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Picom Institutional Course

• Course chosen by the student outside of his
  subject area
• Six credits (270 hours of work by the student)
• Takes place over two semesters
• Interdisciplinary team of students
• Picom 3 credits (under development)

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Picom in Disciplinary Courses

• Disciplinary courses (3 credits or more) using a
  project-based approach
• Undergraduate and graduate students
• Team or individually in a graduate program
• Intervention or research projects
• Carried out in collaboration with a community
  organisation
• Results and tools are used by the community
  organisation and its clientele

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What the Students Can Accomplish

• Training workshop (e.g. volunteers)
• Clientele needs assessment
• Website creation
• Communication plan
• Brochure, radio and video capsules, website
• Creation of an evaluation or intervention tool
• Stakeholders guide

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What the Students Can Accomplish (Cont.)

• Data gathering and analysis
• Help package
• Business plan, marketing plan
• Educational package
• Training workshops
• Tourist programs
• Physical activity program

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Financial Support

• 500 for the community organisation
• Up to 1,500 for the student team
• Travelling costs outside of Trois-Rivières
  reimbursed
• Recognition of a teaching duty for the
  supervision of two teams, within the framework of
  the PIC 1001 course

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Community-University Intersections

• A large-scale Picom
• Academic and community organisation forum
• Interested in a communitys problems
• Possessing complementary expertises
• Collaborating on development projects
• Reinforcing the capacity of community circles
• Contributing to community development
• Enriching university education and research

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Rationale for Community-University Intersections

• Tangible projects that contribute to the overall
  project
• Widening and pooling of expertise
• Complexity of problems
• Experience social innovation
• New intervention approaches
• New and better-adapted services
• Continuity and sustainability of the alliance
  between community and university

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Possible Accomplishments

• Community intervention projects
• Intervention Traineeship
• Essays, dissertations and theses
• Research-action projects
• Training programs and activities

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Intersections

• Street University
• ÉcolHôtel
• Healthy Communities
• Regional Park les Trois Sœurs (La Tuque)
• Youth accomplishments and successes
• Rives Vives (Preservation of drainage basins)
• Spec-Arts (Artistic platform in the Ste-Cécile
  church)

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Statistics

• Since the fall of 2008 165 students, 40 projects
• Originating mainly from the following programs
• Psychology
• Business administration
• Psychoeducation
• Social communication
• Studies in leisure, culture and tourism
• Education

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Street University

• Psychoeducation, Social work, universities and
  CEGEP
• and
• Street work organisations
• Street work program
• Research on runaway minors with the Bon Dieu dans
  la Rue
• Masters thesis
• Video about street work (Louiseville)
• Information collection tool for street workers
  (region)

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Street University
A mission tailored to the needs of street youth
and community organisations
Our Preoccupations
The suffering of the youth and interveners
Academia's powerlessness when faced with this challenge
Improvement of the living conditions for the street youth and their interveners
Fighting exclusion by pooling the resources involved in the process
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The FIVE BASIC PRINCIPLES for the Street
University Carrefour
An essential alliance among the three
partners The notion of UQTR's social
responsibility The mobilisation of the main
stakeholders involved as well as the community at
large The continuous transfer of knowledge A
co-learning approach
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The Street University Carrefour's Three
complementary Components
Research-action Projects based on the needs of
the youth as well as the community organisations
doing street work Evaluation of the current
intervention programs
Innovative Intervention Activities building on
the young people's creativity - Stained glass
windows - Production of tam-tams - Marquetry -
Wrought iron work - Others to come
Experiential Training Creation of a Provincial
Issue Table Development of an integrated program
for street workers Updating of existing training
programs (Special Education Technology Program,
Bachelor's in psychoeducation...) using a street
work profile
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Benefits for the Street Youth

• Valorisation
• Social participation and association with a
  membership group
• Right to speak
• Planning and experiencing innovative projects
• Possibility of finding work because of
  competencies developed
• Reduction of the feeling of social exclusion
• Increase in self-esteem and confidence in
  personal capabilities

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Construction of the Stained-Glass Window
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Proud of Their Accomplishment
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Re-Percussion
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For More Information

• Contact Caroline PrudHomme
• Tel. [phone], ext. 2160
• Email Caroline.Prudhomme_at_uqtr.ca
• www.uqtr.ca/picom