Action Research
Newcomers in the Netherlands often get stuck in the system. This limits their access to, for example, work, (language) education, care, and information. This is complicated for your municipality or organization. How can you best help them? What works and what doesn't? What policy should you make? Action research can help.
Working for perspective for newcomers
With the Perspective Plan Method, we ensure that newcomers regain perspective. This approach is based on the work of our founding partner Institute for Public Values, along with Ager and Strang's Indicators of Integration Framework. What does it take to feel at home as a newcomer? And what actions can achieve a breakthrough in this in the short term?
Does someone need a bicycle to get to work? Then we arrange a bicycle. We go with someone to register with the doctor or practice role-playing for a job application. We do whatever it takes to create perspective as quickly as possible.
Newcomers are the experts
Policies can only truly succeed if they connect with the people they affect. That's why our action researchers use newcomers as experts. They know best what they need and what obstacles there are to achieving it. With an open and curious attitude, we enter into the conversation without immediately offering solutions.
This creates equal cooperation and establishes new (in)formal connections in the local community. From this come follow-up actions and creative solutions that work well.
Translating individual support into system impact
With action research, we simultaneously extract valuable information about the system. This is how we connect practice, policy and research. This gives your municipality or organization well-founded tools for policy and implementation with impact.
We pick up a minimum of 10 cases and ensure that you gather optimal knowledge in 1-3 internal sessions with stakeholders. The project duration is between 4 and 8 months. Individual customized training or case-level intervision is also possible.
Benefits of action research
- Perspective for newcomers who have been stranded
- Support your daily work practice, workload relief
- More results, such as: sustained outflow to work or appropriate care
- Time and cost savings
- New connections and collaborations
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Our action researchers
Good relationships, quick turnaround and a huge network are the building blocks of our work. In addition, our diverse team brings different perspectives and lived experience. In this way, we connect as closely as possible to the experiences of newcomers themselves.
Want to know more?
Wondering what action research can do in your congregation or organization? Contact the team leader.