Week 2: Assets, Needs, and People

Question 1

Asset Mapping

Answer 1

What do we have available to us?

Question 2

Needs Assessment

Answer 2

What do we need to create?

Question 3

Types of Assets

Answer 3

-People
- Places
- partnerships and networks
- Associations, groups, institutions
- Local business information

Question 4

People ex(types of assets)

Answer 4

Create a community profile outlining the knowledge, skills, talents, expertise, and experience of individuals and groups (both personal as well as professional). Consider individual leadership roles, resources, networks, and connections. Find out who has what skills, talents, and resources, and where they live in relation to one another as well as to existing community resources.

Question 5

Places ex. (types of assets)

Answer 5

Natural resources, buildings, and meeting places (such as a coffee house), as well as services and programs offered where people live, work, and visit. Consider parks, waterways, transportation corridors, energy resources, and vacant spaces. Also note location, size, features, and amenities of these places.

Question 6

Partnerships and networks ex.(assets)

Answer 6

Local partnerships, volunteer groups, connections, and networks that link the community and its members. Consider cultural connections as well as existing and potential relationships between people, agencies, and services.

Question 7

Associations, groups, institutions ex.(assets)

Answer 7

Local associations such as the Chamber of Commerce, community groups, church groups, youth groups, schools, local government, health services, youth and adult recreation and sport associations, and civic organizations (e.g., Rotary, Junior League). Consider parks and recreation departments, long-term care facilities, libraries, police and fire departments, and utility providers.

Question 8

Local business information ex.(assets)

Answer 8

Economic linkages, local businesses and business leaders, and community development groups. Consider local stores and merchants, banks, job training groups, radio/television stations, nonprofit agencies, small business incubators, and local agriculture and industry businesses.

Question 9

Loden’s dimensions of diversity

Answer 9

• sex/gender
  -age
• nationality/ethnicity
• sexual orientation
• class
• spiritual beliefs
• income
• physical, mental, and intellectual abilities and characteristics

Question 10

Continuum of inclusion

Answer 10

Physical integration:
- right and ability to access facilities

Functional integration:
- opportunity to be successful

Social inclusion:
- internal motivation fot positive interactions

Question 11

aspects of development

Answer 11

Physical
emotional and social
cognitive