Basic Introduction to Community Work - Central

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Purpose The key purpose of community work is to work with communities experiencing disadvantage, enabling them collectively to identify needs and rights, clarify objectives, and take action to meet them within a democratic framework which respects the needs and rights of others. Community work is seen as a process that is both an individual and collective experience. It is based on a commitment to equal partnership between all those involved to enable a sharing of skills, awareness, knowledge, and experience in order to bring about positive change. Community work takes place in geographical communities (where you live) and communities of interest (youth, housing, drugs, etc), basically, whenever people come together to identify what is relevant to them, and act on issues of common concern. Who does community work? There are no rules that say community work can only be carried out by a paid/qualified worker. Any one who is active within their own community could claim to be a community worker; they could be members of a committee for a church hall, housing association, community council, tenants association, a community activist, etc. However, community work is seen as an occupation with its own guidelines and standards, which were highlighted previously in this section of the course. The paid community worker is seen as someone who enables or facilitates individuals, groups, and activities within a geographical community or a community of interest, such as lone parents, young people, and black and minority ethnic groups. What we do look for from specialist, generic, and lay community workers is that they follow the values and principles of community work, and that the National Occupational Standards in Community Development Work are used whenever, community development work is practiced and organised and by people engaged in other 30
occupations doing community development work and/or using a community development approach in the promotion of social change. 31
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