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Hiya, i am a community development worker in New Zealand, having worked in a CD capacity for over 10 years in both UK and here. Ihavejust started on a new 2 year project in a small (2,000household) low socio economic, very diverse urban community and would welcome some input on my questions that i have commonly faced in my time and are challenging me atthemo in my current organisation
- Do lifestyle, interest, skill/gift related surveys conducted door to door work as a method of initial engagement in truly diverse communities or is just generic organic discussion with no structure better?
- How do you avoid the 'dedicated community leader / volunteer' who often has their own agendas?
- How do you manage to change organisational attitudes and culture when working within a agency that is very much 'well this is how you should approach this community' 'as we have read x,y and z written by Q and we know it works!!!!'
- Other CD workers, do you use Access or Excel as your databases, if so does anyone have some templates to share for free as i am only able to use these (and not other ones i have used in the past which are exactly what i want to use but cant due to IT policy and i don't really want to reinvent the wheel. (My discussions in the community are very much in line with gift sharing/neighbourhood friendships as the interconnecting threads of the community and just wanting an easy way to document and access these links for ease to allow these connections between people happen etc.)
Looking forward to hearing from you, thanks Sarah
updated by @sarah-hexamer: 10/24/16 04:45:35PM