COPAR Flashcards
“The process of working collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting the well-being of those people.
Community Engagement
Refers to the people who are immersed in the issues and the others are stakeholders including businessman, scientists, and other sectors of society.
Community
Forms of Community Engagement:
*Community Organizing
*Community Development
*Community Based Participatory Action Research
*Community Empowerment
Community Development is a concept that can be viewed as
a process and an outcome.
It entails people’s active participation in bringing about solutions to problems collectively identified.
Community Development as a process
is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes participative democracy, sustainable development, rights, economic opportunity, equality and social justice
Community Development
according to Morton and Glasgow, Community Development can summed up into 4 characterisitics:
*it is a process for implementing change
*a program of specified activities
*an outcome
*an ideology of action
seeks to rally people to work together and act on issues owned, identified, and solved thru and by the people’s own efforts.
Community organizing
Community Organizing goes through two broad phases:
*first is educating the people
*second is mobilizing all stakeholders to address problems
aims to transform the voiceless and the powerless into a dynamic, participatory, and politically responsive community
Community Organizing
refers to “ a planned process to activate a community to use its own social structures and any available resoruces
Community Organizing
is the classic form of community organizing where people living in the same area that are bound by the same issues and problems develop their capacities in dealing with their own concerns.
Locality Development
model of community organizing involves sectors of a population that are disenfranchised and clamors of social justice
Social Action
3 broad phase of community organizing:
*Social preparation
*social mobilization
*capacity building
refers to the initial steps involved in establishing a partnership with the people and identifying the needs, problems, issues affecting the community.
Social Preparation