COUV ACTES - Psychologie communautaire

Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse Practiceseach family, and continuing with outdoor activities, media, school activities, and so on. It’s important to underlinethis feed-back is necessary. For example, in Figaro we organise a City council child Plenary. In this plenary,Childs give the family debate results to mayorFigaro, some resultsDelivered 35 notebooks, 27 proposals received (77%).14 adults made a proposal after doing de notebook with their children.207 people in the final voting (35% census). More than the people who voted the all opposition parties in the lastlocal elections.Most voted proposal (the construction of a new park) is contained in the family debate.Conclusions, the family debate into debate:Why is it useful for us?Increasing participation: not only in the number of participants but also in diversity of these, especially to thosewho do not usually participate (families).Child Participation: Encourage children's participation (usually forgotten in the political process). Facilitatingchildren's participation, specifically in the case of a group normally excluded from participative processes. Thistool is useful for children to have a major role in participative processes.Diversity of information: Get a variety of suggestions / information to incorporate into the process. Increasing thediversity of information, which feeds the participative process. Diversifying the profiles of participants, newconcerns emerge, priorities that would otherwise remain hidden.Why IS IT NOT useful for us?Participation of ALL: any methodological tool is intended to some participants and not others to facilitateparticipation of all communities, having already said that any methodological tool is targeting some participantsand not others.To promote collective deliberation: stays only in the family. It promotes discussion group, stays in the family,making it ideal to combine this tool with other collective moments of debate, where they can be found, forexample, different families and / or other participants.To closing processes: It's a better tool to make proposals than to select proposals that others have done. It’s nota good instrument for closing processes.250