LOGIC MODEL Worksheet

Name of Program: ___World Cultures Youth Experience_

Situation:
The United States of America is in the midst of a major demographic surge in immigrant populations from South America and Asia, while the “Baby Boomer” popula-
tion is contributing to the graying of America. There are challenges created by multiple languages and cultures, in schools, the workplace, communities and neighbor-
hoods. Preparing young people to make positive experiences out of these challenges is the goal of the World Cultures Youth Experience. The World Cultures Youth
Experience will provide youth with experiences in immersing in a new language, culture, foods, and music. They will also interact with youth who have immigrated to
America and gain a better understanding of their experiences and difficulties assimilating into life in America. This interaction and shared experience will help immi-
grants and non-immigrants to have a better understanding of eachother.

INPUTS OUTPUTS OUTCOMES – IMPACT

Activities Participation Short Medium Longer term

Collaborations with
ECD and Youth Educa-
tors in Marion County;
The Multi-Ethnic
Group; The Indiana
Foreign Language
Teacher’s Association
(IFLTA), and others will
help create important
links to organizations in
Indiana statewide. This
project will focus first
on Central Indiana in
Indianapolis and coun-
ties bordering Marion
County, but the goal
when the program is
established would be to
expand and/or support
others to plan for meet-
ing their needs in other
parts of the state, via
networking and access
to ideas and resources.
Demonstrate that your In its pilot year youth will
issue is actionable come from within Marion
County/Indianapolis and
New work products are adjoining counties, but as
resources or programs capacity and experience
that give us new capac- increases, youth from other
ity to address issues. parts of the state y be in-
So, new work products vited.
could be curricula, pub-
lications, web re- Participation will be open to
sources, interactive a mix of non- immigrant
discussions (blogs), and immigrant youth.
etc. New work products
could also be compre- Ages of youth will range
hensive programs that from ages 13 to 16. The
integrate a variety of first training group will be
educational resources limited to not more than 25
to address an issue. youth. In future years this
may expand based on in-
terest and resources for the
program.
Valuable results are
meaningful and measur-
able. Demonstrate this
perspective in the Out-
comes/Impact section.
Clarify short, medium and
longer term outcomes.
Understand the cultural
values and differences of
another culture(s) and
how they impact relation-
ships between people.
Develop interpersonal
skills while working to-
gether on conservation
projects.
Better awareness of What kind of impact
difficulties immigrants can result if the par-
to America and visitors ticipants behave or
to another culture face. act differently after
participating in the
They will learn about program?
environmental and eco-
nomic issues faced by Inspire further learn-
America, such as what ing about other cul-
will be important demo- tures and languages.
graphic changes for It is hoped that some
their generation? Aging will choose to travel
and the growth of the abroad. Information
Hispanic/Latino popula- for Exchange and
tion will create different Travel programs for
challenges and oppor- youth available will
tunities over the next be made available.
30 years and beyond. Improvement of indi-
vidual ability to inter-
How other countries act, befriend and
around the world work with people
change?. This knowl- from different cul-
edge and experience tures and back-
will help them develop grounds.
a worldview that looks
beyond their local com-
munity.
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Activities Participation Short Medium Longer term

Collaborators will be A series of interactive Workforce preparation in A pre and post assessment
invited to join the workshops and a retreat terms of learning to work (not a test) regarding cross-
World Cultures Ex- (s) will take place be- with people from diverse cultural competency will be
perience Facebook tween winter of 2010 cultural backgrounds administered. Focus groups
Group to share ideas and early summer of and whose first lan- will also be conducted at the
and information that 2010. They will be used guage may not be Eng- outset of the program and at
will help in guiding to help youth and adult lish. the finish.
development of activi- participants to create a A World Cultures Blog will
ties,curriculum and “community” or “village” Learn or expand lan- be developed to give partici-
original activities will experience. guage ability in a foreign pants a place to interact and
be developed for parts language. reflect as they complete dif-
of the youth experi- Workshops will cover a ferent workshops. It will also
ences, as well as us- variety of topics to help Develop a positive defi- continue to be available as
ing well established participants learn about nition of “community” they move on and can put
simulations and train- environment and their and the importance of their experiences and new
ing methods used by world. For example, on a community in different relationships to use.
organizations such as specific issue such as parts of the world.
Heifer International “global warming” it could
and Peace Corps. look at how it may im-
Share Point and new pact different places in
website features with the world and how differ-
Purdue Extensions ent cultures are respond-
websites will also be ing.
utilized to communi-
cate and share infor- Another workshop may
mation. provide opportunities for
Adult volunteers will non-immigrant youth and
be recruited to serve immigrant youth to inter-
as host families and act and share their ex-
create a Global Vil- periences with one an-
lage experience. other, so that they can
understand the chal-
lenges each face.

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INPUTS OUTPUTS OUTCOMES – IMPACT
Activities Participation Short Medium Longer term
A World Cultures Blog
will be developed to
give participants a
place to interact and
reflect as they com-
plete different work-
shops.

Curriculum and origi-

nal activities will be
developed for parts of
the youth experi-
ences, as well as us-
ing well established
simulations and train-
ing methods used by
organizations such as
Heifer International
and Peace Corps.