Community Development Process

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• Community Development Process

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Objectives

• Define community development
• Examine the basic beliefs, assumptions and values
  that underpin community development
• Define community development process
• Identify the basic principles that guide practice

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Community

• Interactions among people for mutual support

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Community Types

• Communities of Interest
• Communities of Place

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What is community development?
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Community Development
A planned and organized process through which
people and communities learn how they can help
themselves.
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Community Development
A process through which people and communities
acquire the attitudes, skills and abilities for
active participation in creating meaningful
futures and dealing with community issues.
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broad representation and increased breadth of
perspective
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sustainable In long term
disengage if adversely
affecting disadvantaged
incorporate diversity
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Types of Principles

• Principles as Practitionercommunity developer
• Principles of the organization
• Principles of Interaction
• Principles of Dialoguemeeting participants
• Community/Societal Principles

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review and evaluate
expand the organization
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Process Defined

• Establish organizing group
• Identify who is to be included
• Collect/analyze information
• Create purpose
• Develop vision and goals
• Expand the organization

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Process Defined

• Develop action plan
• Implement action plan
• Review and evaluate
• Celebrate success
• Continuation

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Elements in CD Process

• Community is unit of action
• Local initiative and leadership are the resources
  we use
• Blend of internal and external resources

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Elements in CD Process

• Inclusive participation
• Organized comprehensive approach
• Democratic task accomplishment

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Challenges Changes

• Ability to articulate to people what we are
• Working with groups that are more and more
  marginal
• Framing the issues properly

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Challenges Changes

• Helping deal with unforeseen consequences of
  actions
• The fast pace of electronic communications
• Accomplishment vs. process

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environment
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CD Benefits

• Protects from selective participation
• Increases representation

• Increases ability to implement decisions

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Resources

• Community Development Societyhttp//www.comm-dev.
  org/
• Practicing Community DevelopmentDonald W.
  Littrell Doris P. Littrell. 2006. University of
  Missouri Extension. http//extension.missouri.edu/
  explore/commdm/dm7616.htm

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Community Development Courses

• RS4341- Building Communities from the Grassroots.
  Offered Off-Campus Fall and Spring Semesters
• RS4342 Empowering Communities for the
  FutureOffered Off-Campus Spring Semester
  Prerequisite RS4341
• RS4343 Creating Capacity for Dynamic
  CommunitiesOffered Off-Campus Fall
  SemesterPrerequisite RS4341
• http//extension.missouri.edu/cd/cda/