ABCD Training for Community Sector

Who Should Attend

Connecting people to community and seeing them as a part of a community is vital for people to have a voice and to create a sense of belonging. This training provides both theoretical and practical ways to initiate community engagement and development that focuses on abilities and opportunity, rather than problems and difficulties by discovering the resources that are already present in a community.

By building relationships and creating the space for opportunities to emerge, community members become powerful and are more in control of their own decision making. The key principles will demonstrate how ABCD ensures an inclusive community process and participants will leave the workshop with practical tools to assist communities to help themselves and others discover and instigate community strengths.

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is an approach to sustainable community-driven development. Beyond the mobilisation of a particular community, it is concerned with how to link micro-assets to the macro-environment.

Asset Based Community Development’s premise is that communities can drive the development process themselves by identifying and mobilising existing, but often unrecognised assets. This will allow communities responding to challenges and creating local social improvement and economic development.

The workshop will describe ABCD through five key aspects:

Asset Based Approach

Deficit Based vs Asset Based Comparison

Power of Associations

Principles for facilitating Asset Based Community Development

Asset Based Community Development in Practice