GLOSSARY
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Empowerment – To build one’s confidence and ability to create change.
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Leadership competency – Interpersonal skills and positive behaviors that contribute to effective leadership performance.
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Group structure – The layout of the group (roles, conformity, group dynamics etc.)
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Participatory competency – The ability to engage actively and effectively within a group or social network.
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Group climate - the tone, quality, and cohesiveness of group interaction.
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Emotional empowerment - being able to stay centered and grounded, regardless of what is happening around you and outside of you.
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Adult Involvement - The guidance and support of an individual over 18.
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Collective participation – To participate as a group.
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Individual change - to become different in one’s thinking, behavior and/or attitude
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Community change - Shifting the attitude, perception, and readiness to improve policies, practices and conditions that negatively impact communities.
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Group change - Changes in group membership, structure, or identity.
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Outcomes – The end result of an action, situation, or event.
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Cohesion – To unify or stick together (tightly knitted).
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Cognitive Empowerment – To build and strengthen one’s thinking process and growth mindset.
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Resiliency – The ability to recover or bounce back quickly from difficulties.
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Critical awareness - An active, continuous, and conscientious consideration of a belief or form of knowledge.
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Efficacy – The ability to produce an intended result.
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Behavioral empowerment – To support and strengthen individuals in adopting new behaviors that advance their dreams and goals and those of their organization.
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Civic engagement – A person or group action designed to identify and address issues of public concern.
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Adultism - the behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs that adults are smarter than young people and should control the process.