Week six The Future of Community-Based Services

2. Introduction
Community-based services and education is way
uplifting and building an entire community.
Continuing to provide services such as financial
support or transportation for special populations like
the disabled, veterans and older adults are extremely
important because some individuals must depend on
their surrounding area for help. Seeing as community
resources are a key factor in these people lives we
look ahead and watch out for how these resources
may change.

3. Key Changes
Population Growth- Growing population of elderly (60 and up
club) will require more funding and services to be available.
Variations of Programs- Programs will broaden the services they
cover such as offering more quality art programs relating to culture
and visual arts not just providing health services.
Evolution of technology- With technology constantly changing
and being apart of our daily lives using it as a resource and a way
to provide efficient support to the population will be needed.

4. Funding
Where does the funding come from?- Funding for
community-based education comes from the government and
donors seeing as majority of these agencies or organizations
are non-profit organizations. They survive and will continue to
survive off the support of the government and private donations
to keep afloat.
Scarce funding- Finding funding for these community-based
services is quite difficult seeing as the government keeps taking
financial cuts on these forms of budgets.

5. Funding cont.
Government & 6%- The government releases an annual
budget on the education sector and how they will spend
the money and what they will spend the money on. The
government should be placing 6% of that budget on adult
education.
Politicians- Organizations have been starting to look
towards and will continue to be looking towards politicians
for help with funding these services if the government
continues to cut their funding.

6. Diversity & Law
Diversity- The United States is what you could call a
melting pot. The country is so diverse in race and culture
and will continue to grow that way. The programs and
services provided and how effective they are will depend
on the diversity of the people receiving them.
Law- Laws that are made to regulate these organizations
and how they are ran or how they spend the money given
to them or the services they can provide by the
government will continue needing to be updated and
adapting towards the country.

7. Conclusion
Growing populations will require more from
community-based services
Funding is getting low and agencies are having to
find multiple resources
Diversity and Law continues to change so
community-based services have to find a way to
keep up.

8. Reference
Lawton, P., & La Porte, A. (2013, Summer). Beyond
traditional art education: Transformative lifelong earning in
community-based settings with older adults. Studies in Art
Education, (), 310-320. ProQuest.
Archer, D. (2007). Financing of adult education. , 40(3),
253-257. ProQuest.
Ahmed, S. M., & Palermo, A. S. (2010, August).
Community engagement in research: Frameworks for
education and peer review. , (), 1380-1387.