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Global Issue

Community Development

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Types of Communities • Exist within society • Local community • Global community • Religious community • Ethnic community • Online community • School community
What is Community Development? • Ignoring forces produced when united (students in school) and able to engage in community development: building ties between community members to create a network that can successfully adapt to challenges or opportunities.
What is Social Capital? • The most important resource: social capital—connections between members of a community. • Builds up trust and cooperation • Strengthens democracy and promotes development
Community Development and Sustainability • Most communities are local • Sustainable (economic, social, environmental) local community
Economically Sustainable • Diverse forms of economic activity, preventing mass unemployment • Reinvest local economic • Job training and education programs prevent mass unemployment
Socially Sustainable • Satisfaction of basic human needs (medical treatment, safe housing, protection from prosecution and physical harm) • Education • Cultural and religious customs and traditions respected
Environmentally Sustainable • Same effort and participation from every individual
Background on Community Development • Native American tribes hunted together in 6500 BC • People gathered together in Ancient Greece, making decisions and for entertainment. • The Settlement Movement in London in the 1800s: raising living standard. • During Great Depression
Community Organizing • The Settlement Movement in London in the 1800s: raising living standard. Help by providing job training, education, and childcare. A form of community organizing.
Declining Social Capital • People are becoming more and more disconnected from each other • Increasing individual leisure time • Groups of people interested in a particular set of issues • Connected to crime, health and the loss of economic opportunity
Inequity and Social Division • Increased isolation both between and within ethnic groups
Limited Economic Opportunities • Caused by low social capital and frequent crime • Affect local economic • Affect children’s education.
Health and Safety Concerns • Contribute to greater crime rates in a community. • People turned to
The Process: Stages of community Development (Step 1 & 2) 1. Identifying the Problem. Involves assessing how current trends will affect future generations. 2. Making a Plan. Address the problem and building the community’s ability to deal with the problems.
The Process: Stages of community Development (Step 3 & 4) 3. Taking Action. 4. Evaluating Results. Determine whether the action is successful or not.
Respect and Diversity 1. Respect and Diversity. Demonstrating respect for diverse cultures. Provide opportunities for each cultural group to be involved in making decisions
Civil Participation 2. Civil Participation—the ability of citizens to participate in both individual and collective decisions around issues that affects them publicly.
Equal Opportunities 3. Equal Opportunities. Secure access to resources such as education, safe housing, and public transit.
Social Connections 4. Social Connections. Strong relationship between citizens. Creates relationships of reciprocity, in which people feel inclined to do things for one another.
Laws and Legislation 1. Laws and Legislation. Community Development can be led or supported by government politics
Citizen-led Initiatives 2. Citizen-led Initiatives. Groups of citizens can create powerful networks on their own. One form that these net works can take is that of a cooperative, a collection of business that workers own and manage collectively.
Investing Individually in Your Community. To meet, talk to, and help other members of your community. It lies through the idea of a time bank, an organization through which members can offer their time in many capacities, then bank the hours and call on the help of another member later.
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