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  2. Community-based program design - Wikipedia

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    Benefits of community-based program design include gaining insight into the social context of an issue or problem, mutual learning experiences between consumer and provider, broadening understanding of professional roles and responsibilities within the community, interaction with professionals from other disciplines, and opportunities for community-based participatory research projects. [4]

  3. Needs assessment - Wikipedia

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    A community needs assessment [13] can be broadly categorized into three types based on their respective starting points. First, needs assessments which aim to discover weaknesses within the community and create a solution. Second, needs assessments which are structured around, and seek to address a problem facing the community.

  4. Community development - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." [1] It is a broad concept, applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local ...

  5. Civic engagement - Wikipedia

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    Civic engagement can take many forms—from individual volunteerism, community engagement efforts, organizational involvement and government work such as electoral participation. These engagements may include directly addressing a problem through personal work, community based, or work through the institutions of representative democracy. [4]

  6. Community organizing - Wikipedia

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    Nonpartisan dialogues about community problems: A range of efforts create opportunities for people to meet together and engage in dialogue about community problems. Like community organizing, the effort in contexts like these is generally to be open to a diverse range of opinions, out of which some consensus may be reached.

  7. Community-based participatory research - Wikipedia

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    Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an equitable approach to research in which researchers, organizations, and community members collaborate on all aspects of a research project. CBPR empowers all stakeholders to offer their expertise and partake in the decision-making process.

  8. Community management - Wikipedia

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    Without proper management, a community's material resources may be depleted or rendered unusable. [8] The common pool problem is an economic situation which exists when goods are rival, but non-exclusive (See common-pool resource). Since these resources are owned in common, individuals have no private incentive to preserve them, but rather will ...

  9. Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment - Wikipedia

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    Scanning: The officer identifies an issue and determines if it represents a problem that needs to be addressed. Analysis: The officer collects information about the problem from various sources to understand the causes and scope of the problem. Response: The officer uses the information to create and implement and response.