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Community builder team training
- 1. HELPING LOCAL PEOPLEDO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. James Hampson - Connecting Communities Co-ordinator Helen Smith – Community Building Co-Ordinator Lisa Brown – Community Builder Forever Manchester Community Builder Team Training
- 2. Ground Rules • HaveFun • Keep an Open Mind • Be Positive but don’t be afraid to challenge • Get to know each other • Laugh • Don’t be afraid to ask questions and share your thoughts if you have them • Tweeters!! • @4EverManchester • @TPAction • #BeBoldTrafford
- 3. Aims for today •Recap on Asset Based Community Development • Reminder of Community Building Tools • The Big Questions • Future planning • Team building
- 4. Introductions • What bringsyou to todays session? • What do you hope to get out of the session? • What are you bringing to the session and ongoing community building work?
- 5. Forever Manchester • CommunityFoundation for Greater Manchester • Been active for 25 Years • Raise and distribute funds to communities of Greater Manchester • 2011 We discovered a different way of working • Developed the UK’s first dedicated ABCD Community Building Team • Now apply the ethos of ABCD to all aspects of our business including grant making • We work with Communities to help them do “Extraordinary things together”
- 6. Classic Needs Map Racialtension/hate crimes High crime rates. Significant fear among older people High levels of Debt Smoking related Heart disease Respiratory difficulties Obesity across The life course High levels of drug and Alcohol use. High unemployment Poor educational attainment Poor housing/environmental issues High morbidity Anti social behaviour Gender inequality
- 7. Problems with thisapproach? The consultation on the joint strategic needs assessment (JSNA) in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria concluded that “improving self-worth is at the heart of issues related to healthy lifestyles. If people value themselves, then other behaviours like healthy eating and giving up smoking will follow. Whilst many communities recognise that their health is worse than the average, reinforcing these negative images could have a negative impact on people’s self-worth.” • Apathy • “Its not for me” • Suspicion • Communities become passive recipients of services • Isolation • Creates Competition for funding • “Ugly Contest”
- 10. About Asset BasedCommunity Development • Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute was founded in 1995 after 3 decades of community development research • Formalised by Professor John McKnight and Professor Jodi Kretzman at Northwestern University, Chicago “When people have been mapped by their deficiencies, it is often difficult to pinpoint what they care about enough to act upon” Kretzmann and McKnight, 1993
- 11. Asset Based Community Development ABCDis a different way of thinking about how to work for change – starting from a place of possibilities, strengths and capacities as opposed to problems and deficiencies. ABCD operates on the assumption that people, regardless of their behaviour, their families and their communities have valid and valuable resources for their own empowerment. It also assumes that people have internal motivations to act which can release these resources for the good of themselves and their wider community.
- 12. About Asset BasedCommunity Development • This is not ‘Big Society’, or a call for more volunteering; it is a set of approaches that starts with the positive as a basis for developing innovative and sustainable solutions • It’s not an approach that just looks on the bright side, but instead uses knowledge of ‘assets’ to make new connections and enhance social capital • A strength-based approach focuses on what works and how to generate more of it, rather than focussing on the deficits and problems
- 13. About Asset BasedCommunity Development Community Builders should first seek to answer these 3 questions about their communities • What can the community do for themselves? • What can the community do with the help of services/professionals? • What can only be done by services/professionals
- 14. Principals of CommunityBuilding Start with discovering people’s strengths Start with relationship building Local led action is more durable and sustainable than professional programmes Social justice is at the heart of every community building effort When the conversation shifts from “isn’t it awful” to “what’s possible?” Real community building begins
- 15. Classic Needs Map Racialtension/hate crimes High crime rates. Significant fear among older people High levels of Debt Smoking related Heart disease Respiratory difficulties Obesity across The life course High levels of drug and Alcohol use. High unemployment Poor educational attainment Poor housing/environmental issues High morbidity Anti social behaviour Gender inequality
- 16. Neighbourhood Asset Map PhysicalSpace Local Economy StoriesInstitutions Associations Individuals My Community Institutions Schools Universities Community Colleges Police Departments Hospitals Libraries Social Service Agencies Not for Profits Museums Fire Brigades Media Foundations Individuals Gifts, Skills, Knowledge, and traits of: Youth Older Adults Artists Welfare Recipients People with disabilities Students Parents Entrepreneurs Activists Veterans Ex-offenders Local Economy For-profit business Consumer Expenditure Merchants Chamber of Commerce Business Associations Banks Credit Unions Foundations Institutional - purchasing power and personnel Barter and Exchange Micro-Business Corporations and Branches Physical Space Gardens Parks Playgrounds Bike Paths Walking Paths Forest/forest Preserves Picnic Areas Campsites Fishing Spots Duck Ponds Zoos Wildlife Centre Natural Habitats Housing Vacant Land & Buildings Streets Associations Animal Care Groups Anti-Crime Groups Business Organisations Charitable Groups Cultural groups Disability Groups Education Groups Elderly Groups Environmental Groups Family Support Groups Health Advocacy Heritage Groups Hobby Groups Interest Groups Men’s Groups Mentoring Groups Neighbourhood Groups Political Organisations Recreation Groups Religious Groups Service Clubs Social Groups Women’s Groups Youth Groups Stories From Manchester Alt Community Challenge Team Lostock Men’s Shed Cool 2 B Kind Great Lever Idea Works Lostock Allotment The ALTernative News Cash 4 Graft From Needs to Strengths
- 17. What are Assets? Thereare 5 key Assets in every community… 1) Individuals 2) Associations 3) Institutions 4) Physical Assets 5) Connections
- 18. ABCD Methodology Discovering Strengths Organising & Mapping Linking& Mobilising Community led Initiatives Sustaining the Process
- 19. Community BuildingTools • AssetMapping • Bumping Spaces • Learning Conversations • Head, Heart and Hands • TheWe Can Game • Connectors Clubs • Creating Space
- 20. The Big Questions •Spend time talking in your groups • Share what Questions you may have • As a table decide on 3 big questions you would like to explore
- 21. The Future • Inyour teams talk about how you can begin to work together as community builders • Is there anything you want to do? • What are you going to do to move this forward? – In the next 3 days – The next 3 weeks – The next 3 months
Editor's Notes
- #8 Remind people that we’re not saying some good work hasn’t been done or that it’s not needed but that if we look through that prism it could become damaging and doesn’t tell the whole story Do story of our street in Wythenshawe
- #11 It’s not a new approach and doesn’t claim to be Academics were led by the Community and taught by the Community Formalised rather than formulated