Scouting

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• Scouting
• as
• Community
• Development

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What is Community Development?

• A collaborative, collective action taken by local
  people to enhance the long term social, economic,
  and environmental conditions of their community

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What is Community Development?

• The primary goal of community development is to
  create a better overall quality of life for
  everyone in the community

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Community Development is

• When a community uses a process whereby people
  get together communicate identify priority
  needs plan and take action to resolve problems
  and achieve outcomes which are desired by the
  community

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• In other words.

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Is a Community Development Model
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Steps in Community Development

• Perceive a need
• Organize
• Plan
• Agitate and Animate
• Get the community behind you
• Use all community resources at your disposal
• Involve the media
• Keep it Mom and Apple Pie
• Never Cry Wolf
• Gauge Success and Adapt your plan
• Share the fruits of your success

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Steps in Community Development

• Perceive a need
• Usually a blank space in the community or
  something that is being threatened
• Such as a Food Bank
• a Womens Shelter
• Threatened Institution
• Such as a Police Station Closure

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Steps in Community Development

• Organize
• Find people with like minded views
• Rally around the cause

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Steps in Community Development

• Plan
• Meet
• Share
• Plan
• Be Aware

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Steps in Community Development

• Agitate n Animate
• Get into the Community and
• Inform them of the problem and your planned
  solution
• Use Mall Displays, Pamphlets, Posters,
  Loudspeakers on Cars
• The INTERNET

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Steps in Community Development

• Use Community Resources
• Approach Merchants,
• Service Clubs, Police, Firemen,
• Media (TV-Radio-Press)

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Steps in Community Development

• Get the Community Behind You
• Make sure everyone is on side or at least given
  the chance to decide where on the issue they are!

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Steps in Community Development

• Involve the Media
• If the story is big they will come to you. Dont
  count on it.
• Be proactive but be prepared for their needs.
• You have to make it easy for them to do a story
  on you.

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Steps in Community Development

• Keep it
• Mom Apple Pie
• Usually blank space in the community or something
  that is being threatened

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Steps in Community Development

• Never Cry Wolf
• Dont act prematurely or without everything you
  need.
• If you burn the community once they will never
  forget.

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Steps in Community Development

• Gauge Success
• And Adapt Plans
• Usually blank space in the community or something
  that is being threatened

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Steps in Community Development

• Share Victories
• If you are fortunate to win,
• Be gracious in victory.
• Invite everyone to celebrate even your opponents.

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