Community Profiling.pdf
- 1. Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship General Academic Strand | Humanities and Social Sciences Community Profiling
- 2. Community leaders take care of their members with policies and regulations that promote equality and equity among them. 2 2
- 3. In sustaining a community, it is important to have a community profile. 3 3
- 4. This will enable the community to know vital information about their community and the members who reside in it. 4 4
- 5. Learning Objectives 5 ● Define community profiling and its significance in the community. ● Construct a community profile form. ● Understand and explain the steps in creating a community profile.
- 6. Essential Question 6 How can the development of a community profile help its leaders and members?
- 7. 7 Community Profiling A community profile contains the collection of information about a particular community.
- 8. 8 Community Profiling A community profile describes the community’s land uses, natural environment, economy, cultural traditions, and history.
- 9. 9 Community Profiling A community profile: ● exhibits information used in planning ● can be used in natural resource management and community economic development
- 10. 10 Community Profiling The community profile can also be presented to governments and organizations that can aid in supplying the needs that have not yet been met in the community.
- 11. 11 Steps in Doing a Community Profile ● Having a clear objective for a community profile helps their leaders and members know what they can or cannot achieve. ● If the construction of a community profile is part of the planning process, the leaders should consider the community’s strengths, struggles, and current and future goals.
- 12. 12 Steps in Doing a Community Profile
- 13. 13 Steps in Doing a Community Profile Step 1: Consult with the Community Leaders and Members. Community leaders and members have to distinguish which information must be included in the community profile.
- 14. 14 Steps in Doing a Community Profile Step 2: Identify Community Issues and Attitudes. Community leaders must be aware of the issues that affect the community and the present attitudes of its members.
- 15. 15 Steps in Doing a Community Profile Step 3: Establish a General Picture of the Community. The community’s general picture will help leaders and members envision how they can improve the community in the future.
- 16. 16 Steps in Doing a Community Profile Step 4: Validate Information from the Community. This information is significant in developing a community profile since members of the community are the main sources of valuable information.
- 17. 17 Steps in Doing a Community Profile Step 5: Summarize Findings. The summary must highlight significant information that will help the community display its primary characteristics and needs.
- 18. 18 Steps in Doing a Community Profile Step 6: Develop the Community Profile. Everyone must cooperate and coordinate so that important details of the profile can be included and will adhere to the community’s goals and future plans.
- 19. 19 Constructing a Community Profile Form Two aspects of doing a community profile: ● Themes of information ● Sources of information
- 20. 20 Constructing a Community Profile Form Community’s environment: ● Natural environment ● Human environment ● Communication, infrastructure, waste, transportation, and energy Themes of Information
- 21. 21 Constructing a Community Profile Form Social aspects of the community: ● Demographics ● Health and well-being ● Education ● Governance and administration Themes of Information
- 22. 22 Constructing a Community Profile Form Community’s culture: ● Sources of local knowledge ● History ● Traditional practices ● Use of indigenous languages Themes of Information
- 23. 23 Constructing a Community Profile Form Community’s economy: ● Current job data ● Businesses ● Economic activities Themes of Information
- 24. 24 Constructing a Community Profile Form ● leaders and members know the history, culture, lands, resources, and needs ● can be collected through survey, storytelling, interview, photography, and mapping Sources of Information
- 25. 25 Constructing a Community Profile Form The local government unit schedules a national census of the population to collect a variety of data. Sources of Information
- 26. 26 Constructing a Community Profile Form Community organization involves the use of information from different social aspects of the community. Sources of Information
- 27. 27 The Importance of the Community Profile ● Effective way of collecting information about a diverse community ● Highlights the gaps in understanding a community and can guide future research Strengths
- 28. 28 The Importance of the Community Profile ● Participants involved need to be transparent about current activities within the community ● Communities are complex. How will the information be managed? Weaknesses
- 29. Check Your Progress 29 29 How can you help your leaders create an accurate and relevant community profile?
- 30. Wrap-Up ● A community profile contains the collection of information about a particular community. It describes the community’s land use, natural environment, economy, cultural traditions, and history. ● These are the following steps in doing a community profile: ○ Consult with the community leaders and members. ○ Identify community issues and attitudes. ○ Establish a general picture of the community. ○ Validate information from the community. ○ Summarize findings. ○ Develop the community profile. 30
- 31. Wrap-Up ● There are two important aspects in creating a community profile form: themes of information and sources of information. ● The construction of a community profile should be given importance since it will contain vital information which can be used for future programs that can benefit the community as a whole. 31
- 32. 32 Challenge Yourself 1. Explain the concepts of Participatory Action Planning.
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