Course Title: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 1 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Course code BDS 112 Course title: Community Development Purpose: To introduce the students to the community development principles and concepts in order to equip them with knowledge to enable them appreciate and understand communities and how development is achieved at this level. Course Objectives: By the end of the course‚ the students should be able to: 1. Understand the theoretical basis of community development and how
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Community College for Full-time Student’s at City University of New York The era’s dating back to 1636 have shaped the current contemporary structure of higher education. Throughout the years the landscape of higher education has evolved. The growing variety of higher education institutions‚ the array for curriculum changes and increase in the cost of education have created critiques and new proposals. The community college system grew during the 1970’s giving the opportunity for students to
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felt that you weren’t just ready for it? Well lucky for you‚ you can always go to a community college. Community colleges are a great way to continue your education‚ while not having to pay and maybe even do as much work as a university. There are substantial benefits of going to a community college such as the cost‚ closer to home‚ and smaller class sizes.1 Even though there are a few pros of going to a community college‚ there are also some cons. You risk not being as socially involved‚ there
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whole community-oriented policing process. This part of the process is where the community gets together and creates a committee to address the concerns of the community about the criminal and order maintenance issues that is going on in the community. There are four programs that make up neighborhood-oriented policing. The first program being community patrols. Community patrols are very important as it allows the police to be seen working the streets and more accessible to the community. This helps
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The concept of communities of practice initially appears in the work of Lave and Wenger (1991) in between their discussions of situated learning. The authors in the study showed important implications for learning and knowledge conducted informally and has developed practical activities. The intention was to show that many of the attributes linked to learning and knowledge were beyond the psychological conception (eminently nature Cognitive)‚ incorporating functions and peculiarities of sociology
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Chapter 5 Sections Section 1. Strategies for Community Change and Improvement: An Overview Section 2. Community (Locality) Development Section 3. Social Planning and Policy Change Section 4. Social Action Section 5. Coalition Building I: Starting a Coalition Section 6. Coalition Building II: Maintaining a Coalition Toggle navigation Chapter Sections Section 1. Strategies for Community Change and Improvement: An Overview Section 2. Community (Locality) Development Section 3. Social Planning
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completing your community service work‚ you will write a reflection paper that will give you an opportunity to revisit or look back upon your service activity. Remember five (5) of these hours must be tied to your career pathway. You will need to include each of the guidelines below to complete this paper. All components of this paper need to be typed. 1. Begin your paper with what community service means to you and the importance of community service. 2. Describe the community service you
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movements 1980’s where distinctions were made between individual subjective experiences and psychological empowerment and reallocating resources both key from community empowerment PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT (PE) Def: greater control over one’s own lives may occur with or without involvement in memberships/ political action COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT (CE) Def: includes a raised level of psychological empowerment‚ a political component in which members actively participate achievement of redistribution
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problems with community policing. In some ways it turned out good but in some ways it turned out bad. It seems as if most of these have failed. Community policing programs are being embraced by many different police departments all over the world. The police officers that are assigned to community policing are asked to engages in problem solving. In a recent survey of the heads of law enforcement agencies across the country‚ a full 46% reported that they had implemented a community policing program
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treatment being an expensive and time consuming exercise‚ it is easier to prevent our young people from getting into alcohol and substance use and abuse. Some of the roles of addiction counselor in community prevention include the following; Enabler In the enabler role‚ an addiction counselor helps communities become capable of coping with situations or stress of having members of the society battling substance use and abuse. Addiction counselor conveys hope‚ reducing resistance and ambivalence‚ recognizing
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