2. WHAT IS COMMUNITY ACTION?
• Community action includes a broad range of activities and is
sometimes described as “social action” or “community
engagement”. These activities can vary in their objective,
the role the community play, the types of activities involved
their scale and their integration within the council. That they
have in common is that they all involve greater engagement
of local citizens in the planning, design and delivery of local
services.
3.
4. WHY COMMUNITY ACTION IS
IMPORTANT
•Community action is a about putting
communities at the heart of their own local
service. Involving communities in the design
and delivery of service can help to achieve a
number of objectives including:
5. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
•Denotes interaction, sharing and relationship
at different level. It can be defined as the
partnership between two parties such as
academic institution and local communities
for mutual benefits and is characterized by
reciprocal relations.
6.
7. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT HAS A FOUR-PART
DEFINITION
• Active collaboration
• Build on the resources, skill, and expertise and
knowledge of campus and community
• Improves the quality of life in the community
• In a manner that is consistent with the campus
mission.
13. 2. COMMUNITY RESEARCH
Exploring the community
to learn about its assets
and how it is being
affected by current social
problem. This form of
community engagement
provides knowledge that
other efforts can build
upon.
14. 3. ADVOCACY AND EDUCATIONAL
Raising public awareness of
social issues by giving speeches
to community groups, written
materials to the general
public, or providing educational
activities in school.
15. 4. CAPACITY BUILDING
Creating a place for
everyone in the
community to have a
say in what the
community should be
like and how to get
there.
16. 5. POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT
Participating in processes in
government such as
campaigning and voting. This
includes keeping informed
about issues in the local,
national, and global
communities in order to vote
responsibly and engaging in
discourse and debate about
current social issues
17. 6. SOCIAL RESPONSIBLE PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Maintaining a sense of responsibility
to the welfare of others when making
personal or professional decisions.
Using ones career or professional
training to benefit the community.
This category describe personal
lifestyle choices that reflect
commitment to ones values: recycling,
driving a hybrid car, or bicycling top
work; buying or not buying certain
products or choosing to work for
companies with socially just priorities.
19. 8.PARTICIPATION IN ASSOCIATION
Participating in community
organization that develop the
social networks that provide a
foundation a foundation to
community building efforts
including a civic associations,
sport leagues, church choir,
and school boards.
20. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Proceed wherein community
members come together to take
collective action and generate
solutions to common problems and
pursue community well-being.
21. SOLIDARITY
• Regarding our fellow human beings justly and
respecting who they are as a person. Based on the
perspective that a person is a relational being: a
person is in connection with other people, with the
society and with the environment. This means that
a person has to relate responsibly and act in
solidarity with others and the whole humanity.
22. QUESTIONS
1-5. In your own opinion what is Community Action?
6-10. In your own opinion what is the different of
community action and community engagement?
11-13. give at least 3 parts of community
engagement.
14-15. Write the name of your crush. (FULL
NAME)(SECTION).