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Mythbusters
I need you
100
Working with people at a local level to promote active participation in identifying local needs and organizing to meet those needs.
What is community development.
100
A focal point where residents can meet together informally.
What is a community centre?
100
The starting point for building a sense of community.
What is interviewing older residents?
100
People have not had access to good community work training in the past because of this.
What is a lack of opportunities?
100
A regular intake will enable survival.
What is food?
200
An attempt to develop using imposed goals and an imposed process to achieve those goals.
What is the top-down approach?
200
Local newspapers, events, and logos promote this within a community.
What is community identity?
200
Two factors that weaken communities.
What is collective history, stigma, high mobility, fragmentation, lack of services, lack of local decision-making, lack of boundaries.
200
Typically responsible for delivering many social services, in the past.
What is non-government agencies?
200
People living together in stigma-free, affordable, diverse, and supportive communities.
What is a housing co-operative.
300
Authors of Community Development in Canada (book)
Who are Jason D. Brown and David Hannis?
300
One can tell that a community has not surrendered all of their functions to bureaucracies if these are present.
What is voluntary organizations.
300
Rates of illness, crime, addictions, and other social problems are higher when this weakness is present.
What is stigma?
300
This is not present just because there is the prevalence of one person speaking on behalf of a community who seems well-informed and accountable.
What is a democratic community?
300
A result of globalization and the growth of big businesses.
What is financial leakage?
400
A process that is community determined and promotes control over the industry.
What is the bottoms-up approach?
400
Senior citizens in Britain are often heard talking about community spirit from this time period.
What is WWII?
400
The existence of people from different social classes and ethnic backgrounds who do not work together can cause this.
What is fragmentation?
400
The origin of many of the problems apparent at the community level.
What is structural?
400
Block Parents and Neighbourhood Watch play a large role in promoting this.
What is safety?
500
Community development place an emphasis on two things.
What is self help and mutual support?
500
Roads, public transit, sidewalks, bike paths, and safe roads within communities have this in common.
What are examples of good transportation systems?
500
The removal of local services and residents will cause this for those who remain behind.
What is an overall deterioration in the quality of life?
500
The biggest problem with community development textbooks.
What is being urban-based?
500
"the father of community organizing"
Who is Saul Alinsky?