More on community work/development Flashcards

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Asset based community developend (ABCD):

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  1. It focuses on community assets and strengths rather than problems and needs.
  2. It identifies and mobilises individual and community assets, skills and passions.
  3. It is community driven- ‘building communities from the inside out’.
  4. It is relationship driven.
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Community development:

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  • Helps people in a community identify their needs, obtain resources, and empowers people.
  • May assist existing groups or help people form new autonomous groups on what they decide they want.
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Social planning:

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  • Community defining their needs and working out how they can best be met and how existing services can best be coordinated.
  • Paid workers liaising and working with policymakers and service providers to bring awareness to them of the communities’ needs, strengths, etc.
  • Assist in the improvement of services, changing of policies, etc.
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Social and Community Action:

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  • Where ‘one groups pressurises another group to make a concession or change a policy’.
  • When a community takes action ‘to gain certain rights, powers or comforts, through some form of political pressure or mutual self-help.’
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