Sharing Knowledge, Leveraging Success!
CommDev creates with purpose.
The articles, manuals, reports, presentations and documentaries on this site are produced to share knowledge and leverage success - give community development practitioners and community leaders an opportunity to learn from each others experience. The hope is to make this a source of motivation and inspiration for community change!
The CommDev work is two-fold:
- To develop best practice in various key aspects of community development such as crime prevention, safety, green space and neighbourhood restoration.
- To support the establishment of new, innovative community development models and relevant tools for the front-line staff and community leaders, with an explicit approach to sharing innovations and helping replication of successful approaches elsewhere.
The key Objectives of CommDev are to::
- Provide Canadian communities with tools and reference materials available for implementing/replicating successful community development initiatives.
- Help community members get involved in a collaborative effort to address their local problems.
- Make available community development tools, information and other resources required to bring about focused changes to their neighbourhoods.
- Better equip community leaders and front-line staff of social service agencies to become meaningfully engaged in social development, crime prevention, community safety and other locally directed community change strategies.
- Put a continuum of community development strategies in place for problem solving at local neighbourhood level.
- Help various agencies collaborate effectively and work in an integrated manner to deliver social, health and other community services to individual Canadians.
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Update: Why Place Matters?
Update: Oct 10, 2010:
A new documentary, "The Dangers of Moral Certainty" is being finalized. Here is a rough cut for review and feedback.
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