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Community Organizing: Ways and Goals 資料來源：李永展、吳碧霜 2022.03 (English)  To understand concept of community organizing  To understand ways to manage a community organization  To understand relationship between community orga...

Community Organizing: Ways and Goals 資料來源：李永展、吳碧霜 2022.03 (English)  To understand concept of community organizing  To understand ways to manage a community organization  To understand relationship between community organization and empowerment  姚瀛志 (2011) incorporated views from community and organization, suggested three dimensions for community organizing ：  1.Locality( 地域 )  2.Community feature( 特性 )  3.Community function( 功能 )  1.Locality ： members of organization should be local residents  2.Feature ： organizing should focus on process of consciousness raising, or training of empowering ability  3.Function ： should aim at improving quality of life, or building interpersonal networks  1.To find partners of community empowerment  2. To hold many kinds of meeting (group meeting, workshops)  3. To form different kind of groups or teams according to functions  -depends on whether they can build up community consensus  -whether they can build up trust, support, and inter- dependent relationship  Community organizations move from traditional “placed-based” community organizations( 地緣社區組織 )  → to profession-oriented technical community organizations( 技術社群組 織)  → to issue-oriented community organizations( 議題社群組織 ) 1-1-3/3  Yes or not belongs to placed-based COs: ( ) ‧ Association of Architects ( ) ‧ Residents’ Committee of apartment  ( ) ‧Community Development Association  ( ) ‧Society of Community Empowering Society  ( ) ‧ Tsuei MA MA Foundation for Housing and Community Service  Yes or not belongs to technical COs: ( ) ‧ Architects Association ( ) ‧ Residents’ Committee of Apartment  ( ) ‧ Community Development Association  ( ) ‧Society of Community Empowering Society  ( ) ‧ Tsuei MA MA Foundation for Housing and Community Service  Belong to issue-oriented COs: ( ) ‧ Architects Association ( ) ‧ Residents’ Committee of Apartment  ( ) ‧ Community Development Association  ( ) ‧Society of Community Empowering Society  ( ) ‧ Tsuei MA MA Foundation for Housing and Community Service  II. Forming of community organization  社 個 個人關心某一議題  區 人  組 團  織 既定一群人推動社區工作 體  的  形 社 不同群體間、個人因關  成 群 心共同議題而連結  社  區 既有組織面對轉型、自立  II. Forming of community organization  person who is concerned individual about a certain issue Forming  a group a group of people join community  work, gardening or pollution  Groups connected  some groups connected  organization transformed Community  transforme into empowerment  Four stages:  A. Triggering stage  B. Initiating stage for organizing  C. Engagement stage for residents  D. Evaluation stage 1-1-3/3  (A) triggering stage  ─ triggering stage refers to interaction among residents  ─ utilize activity/program design so residents are willing to participate community affairs  -Methods ： ice-breaking, knowing each other, spatial observation Let people get to know each other Big feast from restaurant ? Food from each family ?  (B) Initiating stage for organizing  ─ residents organize themselves to work on public affairs in community  ─the education and training among residents is the most important task  -training to cultivate people’s profession, need assessment and resource investigation  (C) Engagement stage  ─refers to residents work together and do carry out actions  ─”participatory workshop” is a good way to introduce residents to take actions  - action plans should be discussed  (D) Evaluation stage  ─refers to evaluating or reviewing the outcome after actions are taken  a) they may explore more problems  b) to develop next move or action  c) to decide if the action is in accord with community plan  d) to evaluate if the goal is achieved  Four stages:  __________ stage - - - interaction among residents  __________ stage - - - training program  __________ stage - - - action plan; actions  __________ stage - - - reviewing the outcome  Trigger event– 921 earthquake  --residents came home to join the reconstruction work; they learn how to build trail, learn to do bamboo craftwork Reconstruction team building the trail  Problems for organizing:  A. Too few people come to participate  B. Residents do not care about public affairs  C. people do not know the process of meeting  D. people do not know the community  E. group people do not trust each other  Stages for empowerment ：  From forming the group (civic engagement), to action, to evaluation, in order to move toward empowerment  Start from residents need the most, forming consensus, organizing, exploring resources, and taking actions Adult Education Model for Community Development (by Hamilton)  arousal─learning─initiate  organizing─learning─planning  action─learning─evaluate  independent─empowerment  Spinoff development