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Building from strength: asset-based community development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Before embarking on a community development effort, consider making a list of local strengths instead of just problems. A new assessment technique encourages all residents to participate in mapping community assets and helps generate the can-do attitude needed to move mountains.
John E. Walker
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ASSET-BASED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (ABCD) APPROACH

Khodimul Ummah: Journal of Community Service (ISSN 2963-9719), 2022
Building up economic development in achieving social welfare has inevitably become significant stimulation for emerging countries that inherently will and must continue to be pursued in improving people’s welfare. Countless attempt to enrich people’s welfare is also in line with national building objectives to achieve the probable growth.
Maknuun, Lu’Lu’ IL   +2 more
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Asset-based community development practice in Awramba, Northwest Ethiopia

Community Development, 2015
This research was aimed at exploring asset-based community development (ABCD) practice of the Awramba community in Ethiopia, focusing on seven specific principles. A qualitative research design, including in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, observations, and document analysis, was used.
Semalegne Kendie Mengesha   +2 more
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Building Healthier Communities for Children and Families: Applying Asset-Based Community Development to Community Pediatrics

Pediatrics, 2005
Social capital is the power of social networks and relationships, which constitute the social environment. Social capital has been associated with many measures of health and development. Asset-based community development (ABCD) provides a framework to increase social capital and build stronger, healthier communities for children.
Richard J, Pan   +4 more
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Community Health and Advocacy Training in Pediatrics: Using Asset-Based Community Development for Sustainability

The Journal of Pediatrics, 2012
From the Department of Pediatrics and Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean, University of California Davis; Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; and ediatricians play a critical role in promoting the health of all children, andcommunityhealthandchildadvocacy ...
Su-Ting T, Li   +5 more
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Asset-based learning and the pedagogy of community development

Community Development, 2017
This article argues that much community development education in universities is still very conventional, lecturer-centered, and based on deficit assumptions about students’ knowledge and experienc...
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Pengembangan Usaha Weng Coffee Menggunakan Asset Based Community Development

Indo-Fintech Intellectuals: Journal of Economics and Business
Trade also helps improve the regional economy, in this case Bengkayang district, because of Bengkayang's geographical location which is near the border area between Indonesia and Malaysia. Based on this geographical location, culinary businesses can be an option for entrepreneurs/investors.
Sabinus Beni, Vely Vely
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Co-operation for Asset-Based Community Development: The Example of the Community Explorers Project at Leicester Vaughan College

2023
The Community Explorers project carried out by Leicester Vaughan College in 2019 was part of a major National Lottery-funded project aimed at addressing loneliness in older people. Part of the Co-operative Higher Education movement, Leicester Vaughan College ran this community research project, offering a small but useful pilot pointing to the value in
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Asset-based community development for health promotion in culturally defined communities

2009
As our understanding of the broader determinants of health such as socioeconomic status and the social environment has matured, community development has emerged as a possible health promotion strategy. This thesis explores Kretzmann and McKnight's asset-based community development (ABCD) (Kretzmann & McKnight, 1993), a strengths based community ...
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