Poverty
Healthy Commmunity
Social Capital
Community Intervention
PLA
Targets of Change
100
The Deprivation Trap
100
The fundamental purpose of community change
What is Fostering Healthy Communities?
100
A critical component of social capital
What is Trustworthiness?
100
Strategies of Community Intervention
What are
1. Locality Development
2. Social Planning
3. Social Action
100
PLA was originally called this in the 1980s and has since kept its popularity with many Civil Service Organisations.
Participatory Rural (or Rapid) Appraisal (PRA)
100
They may either support or be targets of change.
What are organizations?
200
Those things that an individual must have in order to survive as a human being
What is Basic Needs?
200
_______ are natural human associations based on ___________ and ______________ in which we mutually provide meaning in our lives, meet needs, and accomplish personal goals.
Communities are natural human associations based on ties of relationships and shared experiences in which we mutually provide meaning in our lives, meet needs, and accomplish personal goals. - Brueggemann (2002) pp 114-12
200
The ability for members to act effectively to improve community functioning.
What is Community Capacity?
200
An intervention approach that emphasizes community building and social integration.
What is Locality Development?
200
The collective name for problem-solving, education, joint action and persuasion. OR PEJP!
What are collaborative tactics? (Brager & Spetch, 1987)
200
_______ and _______ action can accelerate the pace of change and influence its nature and direction.
Skilful and purposeful action can accelerate the pace of change and influence its nature and direction.
300
About 20% (1 billion people) in the world today live in this, of which 85% live in rural areas, predominantly of the Third World.
What is Absolute Poverty?
300
The system of community norms and interrelationships that produce trust, collaborative action, and community consciousness.
What is Social Capital? (Homan, 2016)
300
They are trapped in mistrust and believe community affairs is someone else's problem.
Which are communities with a low social capital?
300
"In the Jacques Road District, a clinic is not present and as a result, they may have to go to Winward Road for health care services".
What is a Limitation of Locality Development:
The principle of locality development is that the community helps itself, however in reality, one finds that they often have to go outside of the community for certain needed services.
300
These can be used to show the key institutions and individuals in a community, and their relationships and importance for decision-making and/or their influence on different people or groups. Different sizes of circles are drawn, indicating different institutions and individuals and their relative influence.
What are Venn Diagrams?
300
For development to occur this must be at an all-time low.
What is Internal Conflict?
If conflict levels are too high, the development or community change work can exacerbate conflicts. (Homan, 2011)
400
A concept where basic needs are but in terms of their social environment people still experience some disadvantages
What is Relative Poverty?
400
The concept of community capital flows from this Social Work Theory
What is The Strengths Perspective?
400
TWO reasons it matters most
1. It is the type of community wealth that makes everything else work.
2. It promotes the ability of people to deal with conditions outside the community that affect their health while gaining access to important, additional resources by creating connections beyond the immediate community.
400
This intervention is concerned with identifying needs and delivering goods and services to members of the community
- Designing formal plans and policy frameworks is of central importance
What is Social Planning?
400
Strengths
What are:
- Can help provide an in-depth understanding of a community's capacities and problems
- Supports empowerment and mobilisation of local communities and their people.
- Analyses and results are immediately available in a form that can be shared and discussed with the community
400
This is more readily accepted because over time, change that continues to make demands on the system may come to be resisted.
What is Temporary Change?
500
They must survive on charity which ultimately must be provided by their own family or community either privately or through governmental programmes (temporary solutions)
"The Poorest of the Poor"
500
F-R-A-P!
1. Functioning to meet system requirements
2. Recognizing and valuing resources
3. Acting to include all members
4. Promoting Community Capital
500
Benefits of Strong Social Capital
- Lower School Drop Out Rates
- Less Juvenile Delinquency
- Less Drug Use
- Reduced Adolescent Smoking
- Improved Overall Health
500
- Improving the quality of life
- Extending human rights
- Advocacy
- Human social and economic development
- Service and program planning
- Service integration
- Political and social action
- Social Justice
What are Community Practice Purposes?
500
Weaknesses
What are:
- Can be time-consuming
- Difficult to do well
- Results are specific to a local community ie. it is not always possible to make wider generalisaions.
500
C-I-M-P-U
.. and not the guy kind.
Arenas of Action:
Community Development
Improved Service Delivery
Making Improvements in Your Own Service Agency
Policy Change & Political Involvement
Using the Courts