2016 National eXtension Conference

Community organizations, residents, and leaders need effective and accessible tools to achieve innovative and sustainable change. Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) is an emerging adaptive way to track progress; evaluate activities and outcomes; and help plan for the future.        
Using a mind-mapping framework, REM evaluates complex group or community activities by engaging active participants. It exposes activities that have rippled out from a specific program and gathers their untold stories. Groups can visualize their accomplishments and build on each other’s stories while identifying partnerships, unique contributions, and gaps in delivery.          
Workshop participants will learn how to facilitate this mapping exercise and populate the information into a digital version. We will demonstrate how to code and aggregate short, medium and long-term outcomes to the Community Capitals Framework (Flora, Flora and Emery, 2008.) We will share and explore with participants how REM can be adapted for small projects and large statewide programs.        
Written instructions for using the tool and how to adjust for specific audiences, so that they can map work in their own communities will be provided. Join the emerging field of Ripple Effects Mapping by adding your experience or adaption.