CONCEPTS AND PERSPECTIVE OF COMMUNITY

Importance of understanding community dynamics and community actions

Community Dynamics- is the change and development involved in a

community that includes all forms of living organisms.

Community Action- is putting communities as the center of the services

development and services delivery. This initiative aims to cater the primary
needs of the communities before implementing it. In such way, **community
action** will help the community dynamics or the degree of improvement of
the community.

Definitions of Community

Social Science Perspective- In the Social Sciences you will learn

about perspective and how perspective is influenced by the frame of
reference you use to interpret information. Areas of Social Science include
Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Human Geography, History, Politics,
and Economics.

nstitutional Perspective - Legitimate arrangements that govern economic

and social business and human behavior in a particular society.

- Approach that highlights the critical importance of the environment

that surrounds the social entrepreneur in the development of new social
ventures.

Civil Society- can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from
government and business, and including the family and the private sphere. By
other authors, "civil society" is used in the sense of 1) the aggregate of non-
governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of
citizens or 2) individuals and organizations in a society which are independent
of the government.
•People's organization- is a generic term of organizations in Peoples
Republic of China exclude governments, the official departments of
government, enterprises or institutions.

•Civic organization- means any local service club, veterans' post, fraternal
society or association, volunteer fire or rescue groups, or local civic league or
association of 10 or more persons not organized for profit but operated
exclusively for educational or charitable purposes as defined herein, including
the promotion of community welfare, and the net earnings of which are
devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, recreational or social welfare
purposes.

•Social movement- is a type of group action. Social movements can be

defined as "organizational structures and strategies that may empower
oppressed populations to mount effective challenges and resist the more
powerful and advantaged elites". They are large, sometimes informal,
groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on
specific political or social issues. In other words, they carry out, resist, or undo
a social change. They provide a way of social change from the bottom within
nations.
•LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for Lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgeneder. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the
initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the
LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. Activists believed that
the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it
referred.

•Local and grassroots level- For local a community means it is a group of

people interacting and sharing their common interest having the same
environment but for grassroots a community it’s not just a network of
socialization but it is a relationship between people that bring each and
everyone together in a way that allow them to do things they can’t or couldn’t
done because of isolation.
Elements

Structures- the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of

something complex.

•Sociopolitical- used to describe the differences between groups of people

relating to their political beliefs, social class, etc.:

•Economics- is the social science that studies the production, distribution,

and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the
behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work.

•Cultural- is the social behavior and norms found in human societies. Culture
is considered a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of
phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in human societies.

Dynamics and processes- is the process of change and development

in communitiesof all living organisms—including plants, microorganisms, and small
and large creatures of every sort. Populations of an organism will appear in an
environment as its requirements for establishment are met.

•Community power- refers to multiple individuals pooling resources (such as

space, money, and skills) in order to mutually benefit from a shared
renewable energy project

•Leadership- the action of leading a group of people or an organization.

•Relationships- the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people

are connected, or the state of being connected.

•Social change- may refer to the notion of social progress or sociocultural

evolution, the philosophical idea that society moves forward by evolutionary
means. It may refer to a paradigmatic change in the socio-economic
structure, for instance a shift away from feudalism and towards capitalism.

Typologies - a classification according to general type, especially in archaeology,

psychology, or the social sciences.

•Formal information system is composed of: information resources

(archives, databases), information users (internal or external to the
 organization), information needs of users (employees or managers),
communication subsystem (technology).

•Rural- is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

•Urban means belonging to, or relating to, a town or city.

•local sector -can be defined as the part of the public sector that interacts
with citizens, civil society and the private sector in a localized manner The
most common way for the public sector to interact with people at
the local level is through elected local governments.

•Global Sectors- refers to sectors that effectively operate in all, or most, of

the markets across the world. The sectors offer roughly equivalent products
or services to customers in every market, and the competitive position of
companies in that industry depends on performance across all markets.

•social space- is physical or virtual space such as a social center, online

social media, or other gathering place where people gather and interact.
Some social spaces such as town squares or parks are public places.

Community action- is any activity that increases the understanding, engagement

and empowerment of communities in the design and delivery of local services.

Overview

•Community engagement is the process of working collaboratively

with community groups to address issues that impact the well-being of those
groups. Activities that help firms engage the community includes credible and
transparent reporting, town hall meetings and collaborative decision making.

•Solidarity unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals

with a common interest; mutual support within a group.

•Citizenship the position or status of being a citizen of a particular country.

Purposes of Community Action

Major issues affecting poor and marginalized community

•Poverty is a multifaceted concept, which may include social, economic, and political
elements. Absolute poverty, extreme poverty, or destitution refers to the complete
lack of the means necessary to meet basic personal needs such as food, clothing
and shelter.

•Drugs a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when

ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.

•Corruption dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving

bribery.

Roles of the youth in community action

- Youth are back bone to the nation.They can change the future of the
society with their well being and courageous behavior. They are here to
show us that which we have not been willing to look at within
ourselves.Unfortunately today we find the youth those who are more
interested in other places which are not useful to them as well as
nation.They chooses to spend their days doing drugs and playing video
games. they spends their nights partying and living it up, so to speak.More
and more young men of this age group are sitting at home in front of their
televisions playing games all day instead of bettering themselves or going
to work. They have no vision and if they do have dreams they do not have
the drive to make any attempt at achieving them.

About the Community Action Initiative (CAI)

The Community Action Initiative (CAI) was created to support community-led
projects that promote mental health, prevent substance use problems and promote
effective treatment and support for individuals and families experiencing mental
health and/or substance use challenges in BC. The CAI was established in 2008
through a $10-million grant from the Province of British Columbia. In March 2013,
the CAI received a subsequent $10 million grant from the Province to continue its
work, as well as $5 million to specifically address supportive recovery housing.
The CAI Leadership Council represents a coalition of non-government organizations
(NGO), First Nations Health Authority, Metis Nation British Columbia and BC
Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, provincial government bodies and
other key stakeholders.
What you will be doing
Your primary role will be to coordinate, manage and facilitate a comprehensive,
province-wide community-based substance use project. The project aims to build the
capacity of community-based organizations (CBO’s), delivering small grants and
knowledge exchange activities to address the current opioid epidemic.
In this position, you will also contribute to CAI’s broader granting activities such as
grant management and stakeholder engagement in collaboration with members of
the CAI team. This position reports directly to the CAI Secretariat Director.

This role requires you to:

 Be a skilled project coordinator and communicator for effective and efficient
project delivery
 Work collaboratively with diverse community groups across the province
 Coordinate and manage a small granting initiative for BC’s CBO’s to support
local convening activities and action planning
 Research and distribute high quality, evidence-based resources via the
initiative’s Community of Practice to guide and inform community approaches
 Build, facilitate and sustain an online Community of Practice for CBO’s
working to address the current opioid epidemic
 Support the CAI Research Analyst and evaluation consultant with evaluation
activities such as coordinating and compiling project related data
 Develop project reports and status updates
 Participate in committees and working groups
 Other duties as assigned

Core values and principles of community-action initiatives

•Human rights Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings,
regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other
status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery
and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and
education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without
discrimination.

•Social Justice is a concept of fair and just relations between

the individual and society. This is measured by the explicit and tacit terms for
the distribution of wealth, opportunities for personal activity, and socia
privileges.
•Experiment and Advocacy is the new way of testing social behavior in a
real context, in the real life. A lot of them are used as research experiments to
study some questions like “how does people act in front of scenes of public
violence/kidnapping/poor people asking help or other similar social
phenomena. What if this type of approach is used not only to show and film
citizen’s reaction, in order to carry out academic studies, but also to leave
people a message through a real experience? Some non-governmental
organizations (NGO) tried to enact scenes of social disorders and other
situations in real life, with the aim of “striking a chord” with citizens about the
human rights issue.

•Participatory development is a process through which stakeholders can

influence and share control over development initiatives, and over the
decisions and resources that affect themselves

•Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, is the state of equal ease of
access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including
economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different
behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.
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PAPER

Submitted by:

John Lloyd E. Estillore

Submitted to:

Mrs. Fritzie Arancill