Wellesley Communities

Often times community is thought of as simply a group of people living in a similar location, you can push that idea from there saying it's shared beliefs or interests, and from that you might discern that community isn’t any more or less than bonds between oneself and something that reciprocates what they hold inside. Breaking up the subject again we begin to wonder not only what is community, but what isn’t it. Trial and conflict are inevitable. There will always be struggle alongside the best of experiences. Though deciding where to draw the line between what can be fixed and what simply is harmful amongst a community will always be a challenge. **

Principles in community development are used to achieve overall goals and achieve results (Checkoway 1995). Jim Ife has identified 32 principles of community development that are seen as critical components and can be useful to develop a framework for evaluating community development (Ife 2016). Many of Jim Ife’s principles are being acted upon in this case study such as Addressing disadvantage and inequality, linking the global and the local, valuing local processes, valuing local skills and relationship and dialogue.

Dr. Richard Jackson has committed his life’s work to changing or designing healthier communities. Retrofitting suburbia connection of the sprawl, our current obesity Type II Diabetes and suburbia communities, in the past 15 years the Gross Domestic Product has doubled from 1 percent to 2 percent this is what America has spent on diabetes alone. Building America for the needs of cars and not people is a major contributor to our nations Type II Diabetes epidemic (Jackson, 2012b).

Throughout history we see a pattern that includes a boom in society alongside a boom in industry. As industry increases, many people move to cities, causing a lack of community and a greater sense of contribution to society as a whole. On the contrary, when we look at time periods with greater agricultural importance, there are many more close-knit family groups or small communities. This idea came into fruition after reading The New Community by Amitai Etzioni. This piece discusses the role of community and society, and how community is defined as unity and society is defined as diversity. On a basic level, we agreed with this statement. As industry booms, the role of the individual becomes less important, and the diverse skill set of a society becomes more important. In a community, there can be diversity, but all people involved need to have a strong commonality that bonds them. I agree more with an idea presented later in The New Community more. “What we need now are communities that balance both diversity and unity.”(Etzioni) This statement reflects our current society, which is extremely diverse. As a large populace, we need to find communities that will accept our diversity, while still sharing a

According to Bonhoeffer, “community is a calling to serve, work, and rest with others. (Schultze 346).” There are many communities, familiar, neighborhood, and professional. We need to pursue our stations while nurturing the community.

When one thinks of community, they are likely to think of the general population of a region, or perhaps even that of the world at large. Such a person would have one right idea in mind, but not necessarily the right idea in the context of this exploration. What sets community, in this broad sense, apart from the role it plays in this project, is common interest. English vernacular dictates that “the community” is a term usually reserved for reference to people of a given region; this use of the word community exists without regard for any shared qualities beyond location. In this report, community will describe a group of individuals with commonalities in concerns, aspirations, and most importantly discourse. (cite definition source)

The civic model of community is the balance of the therapeutic model. The civic community is one of “public mutuality rather than personal vulnerability…” (pg. 94). It focuses

After all, directly reinforcing healthy behaviors will have a positive impact on the entire community as those who are not at risk will still benefit from nutritious diets and exercise. However, in order to employ the most effective community plan, there has to be information on the community’s situation and the amount of factors that contribute to childhood obesity for the population. Although those with incomes over $65,000 tend to have the highest BMI’s, low-income families and those who do not have private insurance were at higher risk for obesity due to limited healthcare access and food deserts. Food deserts are defined as communities where there is a lack in transportation to grocery stores and local stores do not provide nutritious foods, but other factors are considered as well; in these communities, there is not enough time to watch children and prepare meals, caregivers have poor eating habits, and unhealthy foods are heavily marketed and readily available (Haboush

The communitarian argument for a politics of the common good in order to develop and maintain social unity, is based on their idea that the self is constituted by the community. For them, it is not individuals who examine and define their own ends, as such ends have already been developed by, and exist within, a given community. According to communitarians, individuals discover their self by deeply immersing themselves in the community 's way of life, internalising the community 's conceptions of good, and embracing social roles that have been pre-determined by culture or custom – the promotion of which is the duty of the communitarian state. However, communitarians see their societies as vulnerable (Kymlicka 2002: 238), and that the vast array of ends in modern societies stand as a threat to the maintenance of social unity (Kymlicka 2002: 271). They assert that, without a politics of the common good to protect and solidify the ends of the community, social unity will be unsustainable (Kymlicka 2002: 271). One communitarian approach to combating this is through the distribution of resources, which the communitarian state undertakes in line with its preferences, in a bid to prevent individuals within the community from reconsidering or revising ends and the community 's conception of the good life (Kymlicka 2002: 240).

There is significant variation in how communities are defined in our world. The dominate themes found relate communities to space, people, interaction, and shared identity (Netting, Kettner, McMurtry, &Thomas, 2012). Understanding communities allows social workers to partner with community members and leaders in order to identify root-causes of social problems and create solutions together. Individuals themselves are experts of their own communities and can offer different ways of viewing the world around them. This paper uses a community assessment framework, discussing community

Several people blame the community for not promoting a healthy life or having no access to healthy food (Subica). Every town has a store that promotes low-fat or zero calorie foods and drinks. Communities have programs to promote health for all ages. The Let’s Move website offers ideas for communities being healthy together (“Eat Healthy”). There are sports children can be involved in, community activities, and fitness centers that children and adults can be involved in. If a community does not have a fitness center, schools can be used after hours for the community to work out in the gym or use the weight

Communitarianism focuses on a theory that seeks to bring economic justice through equality (MacKinnon & Fiala 2015). People love their community and are more willing to serve it then to serve others they do not identify with. Communitarianism also states that social justice may vary from group to group due to tradition and culture (MacKinnon & Fiala 2015). People find their identity in community and it influences relationships, aspirations and history forming a “community of memories” (Phillips 2014) which causes a community to form its own ideals.

According to Lotz and MacIntyre (2003), “Common to all humans these days is a desire to exercise some control over their own lives and those of their communities. Community development is about showing how this can be done, and how personal and local development can be linked in mutually beneficial ways.” (p. 9) People always protect and

At stage five, individuals aim at ensuring that the community keeps performing. Nevertheless, a society functioning smoothly is not essentially the best because a society needs to be well structured. Stage five focuses on the components of a healthy society and those at this stage think of the community in a theoretical way by considering the values and rights that the society ought to maintain (Kohlberg, 1971). Moreover, they trust that a healthy community is a social pact in which all individuals

Conservatives believe communities can provide structure for the natural change that they believe should be the real way of progress and that communities are capable of providing a counter force against the concentrated power within the government (Dunn, iii). Thus, community must be near the top in a list of fundamental conservative tenets, and community is the third in this list of ten principles of conservatism (Dunn, iii). Conservatives believe that within the community there are the private and voluntary organizations people can join and be a part of which can help humans grow and flourish (Dunn, iii). This view reveals why conservatives can view the community as such an important part in the lives of individuals.