Wellesley Communities

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).

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.

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

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

This perfectly relates to the obesity issue my group is addressing for our MAP-IT project. In Wyandotte County 23.9% of individuals live below the poverty line (Kansas Health Matters, 2017). When families live on low income they are sadly forced to make unhealthy choices because they are cheaper and readily accessible. As seen in the Unnatural Causes documentary (2008) just because someone wants to live a healthier lifestyle it sometimes isn’t easy to do. If individuals don’t have access to transportation or extra cash to spend on healthy food they can’t change their way of

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)

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.

First, community is our “home.” We have been living in a community ever since we were just little babies and it has always influenced us. Communities have played a big part in who we are today. We start off in school not knowing anyone or anything and as you get older you begin to think about the

A community is a place where people around supposed to be able to live and thrive together. When one thinks of a community, the image that most likely is visualized is one of a place where each person lives harmoniously with all the other members of that community. While this may be the typical image of a community, it is not the realistic view. In reality communities can share both good and bad aspects. In Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom make the argument that the place a person lives ultimately matters over all else; the place which a person lives effects the choices that that he/she makes and determines his/her ability to obtain a

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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