Community Engagement explores Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) principles for mobilizing individual and community strengths. Students learn to identify assets, skills, and passions within communities while building collaborative relationships and leadership capacity. The subject emphasizes developing community engagement plans, ethical multidisciplinary practice, and effective referral processes. Through reflective practice, students examine how personal worldview influences community work while maintaining professional wellbeing in Australian and global contexts.
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1. Develop an understanding of community engagement principles
2. Describe the core elements of the Asset Based Community Development as it relates to community engagement
3. Consider practices for identifying and developing community-based relationships and collaborative practices
4. Design and develop community engagement plan including individual and community asset
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