More on community work/development

Question 1

Asset based community developend (ABCD):

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Community development:

Answer 2

• 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.

Question 3

Social planning:

Answer 3

• 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.

Question 4

Social and Community Action:

Answer 4

• 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.’