Community Development Process
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Deborah TootleCommunity Development Process
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• Understand community development as a process.
• Recognize key elements of the community development process.
• Develop new skills for identifying and addressing community issues and opportunities
Learning Objectives: You Will:
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• Understand community development as a process.
• Recognize key elements of the community development process.
• Develop new skills for identifying and addressing community issues and opportunities
Learning Objectives
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Putting It Together
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How did we define community development?
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• Process of creating change in a community.
Community Development?
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• Process of creating change in a community.• Planned and organized process through which people
and communities learn how they can help themselves.
Community Development?
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• Process of creating change in a community.• Planned and organized process through which people
and communities learn how they can help themselves.• Process through which people and communities
acquire the skills, attitudes and abilities for active participation. – Creating meaningful future– Dealing with community issues
Community Development?
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What is the Operative Word?
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Community Interaction
CommunityAction
Community Development
Community Development Process
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Community Interaction
Community Action
Community Development
Community Development Process
What does this slide suggest to you?
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Community Development Process
• Without community action, there is no community development.
• Without community interaction or engagement, there is no community action.
• Without community interaction, there is no community development.
• The process begins with social interaction.
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Community Development Process
• Without community action, there is no community development.
• Without community interaction or engagement, there is no community action.
• Without community interaction, there is no community development.
• The process begins with social interaction.
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Community Development Process
Without community interaction, there is no
community development. This is
where it all starts.
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“The community is an arena of both turbulence and cohesion, or order and disarray, of self-
seeking and community-oriented interaction; and it manifests its dualities simultaneously”
Source: Wilkinson, Kenneth B. 1991. The Community in Rural America.
Communities Are Complex:
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“The community is an arena of both turbulence and cohesion, or order and disarray, of self-
seeking and community-oriented interaction; and it manifests its dualities simultaneously”
Source: Wilkinson, Kenneth B. 1991. The Community in Rural America.
Communities Are Complex:
Communities are messy places!
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Community Development Process• The downside to relationship between
community engagement and community development is …– Individuals and organizations can either encourage
or block community action.– By blocking community action, individuals and
organizations can block community development.
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• Understand community development as a process.
• Recognize key elements of the community development process.
• Develop new skills for identifying and addressing community issues and opportunities
Learning Objectives
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5 Key Elements in the CD Process
• Knowing your community• Identifying local issues and
opportunities• Community engagement • Mobilizing resources• Making it happen
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• Already you have learned about the big picture:Community development and demographics and
economic landscapeSituational analyses – issues and opportunitiesTools and data
Action: communityengagement
Know Your Community
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“Effective community change requires direct involvement in civic engagement, publically acknowledged work that produces desired
community outcomes”
Source: Kenneth Pigg, Stephen Gasteyer, Kenneth Martin, Godwin Apaliyah, Kari Keating. 2015. Community Effects of Leadership Development Education: Citizen Empowerment for Civic Engagement
Importance of Engagement
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Why Aren’t Community Members Engaged?– Don’t have time for involvement?– No interest?– Don’t know how? – Not asked?– Don’t have skills?– No community volunteers needed?– Help not accepted?
* Data from Iowa Small Towns Project (2014)
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Why Aren’t Community Members Engaged?– Don’t have time for involvement?– No interest?– Don’t know how? – Not asked.– Don’t have skills?– No community volunteers needed?– Help not accepted?
* Data from Iowa Small Towns Project (2014)
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To Increase Community Engagement• Ask community members to get involved• Know that you have networks and
relationships that you can access• Recognize that most work in communities
takes place in small groups – learn how small groups work
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Group Exercise: Networks
• What are some social networks with which you are familiar?
• Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Game– Who is Kevin Bacon?– Premise of game:
connecting to anyone in the world in six steps or “degrees of separation”
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Group Exercise: Networks
• In this exercise, you will draw a network –connecting with a “celebrity”
• You will show how you can expand your network through this training – connecting to each other
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Example
DT BP*
Bobby Charles
Bob Dylan
Willie Nelson
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• Sit at a table with people you don’t know well.• Working silently, think of a “celebrity”.• Draw your connection to that “celebrity”.• Once everyone at your table has finished,
share your networks with your table.• Who are you connected with now? • How many steps will it take for you to connect
with Willie Nelson?
Instructions: Part I
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How Many Steps?
DT BP*
Bobby Charles
Bob Dylan
Willie Nelson
YOU
MP
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• Everyone stand up• Look at the large ball of yarn• Catch the ball of yarn when it comes to you• Share the ball of yarn with someone else that
you’ve met through this workshop.
Instructions: Part 2
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• What did we just do in these 2 exercises?• What was easy? Why?• What was difficult? Why?• How did we connect with others?• What did these exercises tell us about:
– Social interaction?– Engaging people?– Connections to assets in our communities?
Discussion
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• Social interaction critical to community development
• To be effective need to “hear all voices”• Not always easy
– Conflict– Lack of inclusion
Barriers to Social Interaction
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Conflict• Social interactions
not always smooth and harmonious
• Social, economic, cultural, political, environmental issues can create tensions
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• Conflict is:– Predictable social phenomenon– Most of us find it uncomfortable– Should be channeled to useful purposes– Point is not to eliminate conflict, but to use it
• An example relative to community engagement?
Conflict
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• Conflict is:– Predictable social phenomenon– Most of us find it uncomfortable– Should be channeled to useful purposes– Point is not to eliminate conflict, but to use it
• An example relative to community engagement? Community policing
Conflict
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• We know we need to do a better job of engaging people – how?
• Mindful of using processes designed to gather input from local residents who may not be comfortable speaking up at meetings – NGT
• Recognize dimensions of diversity (e.g., diversity wheel) and how it can be divisive
• Conflict often caused by differences
More Inclusion
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Diversity and Conflict
Divisions can cause conflict; how does being more inclusive help to diffuse some differences and help us channel differences to useful purposes?
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What effect does diversity have on networking? Think back to your networks.
Diversity and Networking
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What effect does diversity have on networking? Think back to your networks.
Diversity can expand networks and access to resources.
Diversity and Networking
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• Understand community development as a process.
• Recognize key elements of the community development process.
• Develop new skills for identifying and addressing community issues and opportunities.
Learning Objectives: You will:
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Skills: What Does the Community Engagement Process Look Like?
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• Set the stage– Assess the community – situational analysis– Identify champions – who will support you?– Identify cultural guides – who will help you
understand local context?– Assess readiness
Strategies to Increase Community Engagement
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• Make a plan– Bring diverse stakeholders/resources to the table
from beginning– Create logic model or road map – together. Why?
Strategies to Increase Community Engagement
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• Make it happen– Use your road map (logic model)– Use action planning processes– Recognize that you cannot make plans for others– Frequent communications
Strategies to Increase Community Engagement
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• Evaluate at different points in time– Short term – Medium term – Long-term
• Include partners/stakeholders • Revise logic model as needed
Strategies to Increase Community Engagement
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• Community development process is based on social interaction. Consequently, it can be:– Messy– Challenging– Time consuming– Complicated
• But …
Points to Keep in Mind
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Points to Keep in Mind
• Without community interaction, there is no community development
• Where there are issues, there are opportunities
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• What is your key take-away from this session?• How important is community engagement to
the work you do in Extension? • What are some of the barriers to community
engagement you’ve experienced?• What could you differently to increase
community engagement in your work?
Discussion
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Thank you for your time and participation. Any final
questions for the facilitation team?
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Community Development Flora, Cornelia Butler and Jan Flora. 2004. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change.
Boulder, CO: Westview.Wilkinson. 1991. The Community in Rural America. CT; Greenwood Press.Community Engagement Putnam, Robert. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster.Besser, Terry. 2015. Sigma: A Profile of Iowa Small Towns 1994 to 2014.
http://www.soc.iastate.edu/smalltowns/SigmaReport_Final_4May15.pdfBesser, Terry. 2016. Leadership Patterns, Civic Engagement, and Quality of Life Amenities in
Small Iowa Towns.http://www.soc.iastate.edu/Leadership_Patterns_May2016.pdfCommunity LeadershipPigg, Kenneth, Stephen Gasteyer, Kenneth Martin, Godwin Apaliyah and Kari Keating. 2015.
Community Effects of Leadership Development Education. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.
Resources and References.
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Community ReadinessChazdon, Scott and Stephanie Lott. 2010. “Ready for engagement: using
key informant interviews to measure community social capacity.” Community Development 41(2):156-175.
Trautman, Karla, Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel and Trudy Rice. 2012. “Assessing aCommunity’s Readiness”. University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension.
FacilitationBens, Ingrid. 2012. Facilitating With Ease. Jossey-Bass. CA. Kaner, Sam. 2014. Faciltators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. Jossey-Bass. CA.Krueger, Richard and Mary Anne Casey. 2015. Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied
Research. Los Angeles: Sage.Hustedde, Ronald J., Steve Smutko and Jarad Kapsa. Turning Lemons Into
Lemonade: Public Conflict Resolution. Southern Rural DevelopmentCenter http://srdc.msstate.edu/trainings/educurricula/lemons/
University of Minnesota Extension.1999. Facilitation Resources (Vols 1-8). St. Paul, MN.
Resources and References
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Arts Based Community EngagementLeavy, Patricia. 2017. Research Design. Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based
and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches. New York: The Guilford Press.
Leavy, Patricia (ed). 2018. Handbook of Arts-Based Research. New York: The Guilford Press.
Resources and References.