Community Capacity Building

Question: Write about theCommunity Capacity Building. Answer: Every individual falls in one or the other premises of a Community, it is gives sense of affiliation to the community members. Every community has a certain objective if nothing then fellowship can be said the reason for any community but mostly communities have a goal and agenda. That helps the community members to fulfill their needs be it be material needs or emotional needs, communities are premises that has fulfilled the needs of human beings way before the term was even coined. In the essay the definition of community is been discussed along with the strengths of a community with the perspective of Aboriginal communities and Non- Aboriginal communities of Australia. A community is a small or large group of people, they have something in common, common norms, values, religion or they live in same place, within in a geographical area, village, neighbourhood, town or country. Community has been derived from latin word comunitas which means public spirit (An et al. 2014). Community can also be defined as social connections. These social connections play a very important, it gives sense of affiliation to the people. It provides mutual benefits to the people who gather around a community and share the resources they have. People always like to be a part of any community, owing to their nature of being a social being. Communities can be classified based on five criteria these are place, action, practice, interest and circumstance (Cohen 2013). The collective efforts that a community puts in achieving the purpose for which communities exist is the key element of the community. The resources they have and they share is also the strength of the community. There are sufficient resources but communities but the community members should be guided in order to achieve the purpose. There has to be a leader within the community who direct and motivate individuals in the community to recognise their strengths their resources they have and work hard to achieve those objectives. Instead of competing for the resources they have, they can share those resources among themselves, helping each other would. Strength is the capability of a community to act towards the common interest. A strong community is one that works together for the improvement of the well-being of the individuals in the community. The communities always need to be united, difference in opinions and might occur, conflicts do occur when there are a many individuals, but a good and strong community turns these weaknesses in to a strength, the diverse opinion are always encouraged by a good community. So, it can be said that how communities use their resources, like natural resources, capital, resources also includes the skills people have within the community, people good at heath care services, people good at teaching, learning and development. These are the characteristics of a strong community. Aboriginal people constitute 3% of the total Australian population. There are many aboriginal communities in Australia that with help of government and non-governmental organisations that work for the well-being of the people living within the community. These communities are made to improve the overall standard of living of the aboriginals in Australia (Coleman 2014). Special focus is on the health, education, employment, income and housing. The aboriginal people they suffer from various diseases, including the sexually transmitted diseases. Therefore, the leaders within the communities work as Aboriginal health workers help the patients. The make organise programmes to create awareness about the various health related issues affecting their lives, so that they can live a healthy lifestyle and give their children a bright future (Mills, Rosenberg McInerney 2015). The government provides funds and resources to the communities so that they can set up health care centers. Aboriginal p eople do not have access to adequate resources, financial resources so the government bodies they provide aid to the aboriginal people so that they under the leadership of their community leaders help themselves (Postle, Burton Danaher 2014). The nongovernmental organisations also work towards the welfare of the aboriginal people they teach them how to improve their well being, by providing education and training them. Community participation is the most essential element when it comes to working towards the welfare of any community, it becomes a challenge for the organisations to influence the aboriginals for community participation, be it education of heath care. Aborigines have certain beliefs and values that are different from common belief and values so encouraging participation become a major challenge. However, once the organisers are successful in encouraging the people for participation, the purpose of the community is also met. As far as the Non-aboriginals are concerned they are not that much reluctant to change so providing aid to them becomes easier, but the biggest challenge is how to be successful in attaining the goals of the community. For non-aboriginals in Australia health care is major challenge, community leaders raise funds and make healthcare centers. Health care is the primary reason for these communities. Many organisers provide services that are funded by commonwealth sources. Victorias network of services, provide primary health care, community based needs and human services. There are 32 independent communities registered community health centers. 56 health services which are part of rural and metropolitan health services, also includes small rural health care services. These health care services target the vulnerable population groups. The human services includes drug and alcohol, disability, dental problems, chronic disease, post acute care, community and home care, child care, psycholog ical health services and rehabilitation facilities. Community health services get financial help, funding from different programs of the department of health services and it gets funding for Community Health program funded by state, which provides, health promotion services, general consultation, health and nursing services, which aims at providing overall mental and physical well being of the local communities. Community College Northern Island is one such example of community services in the area of education and training. It was established in 1981, because of a public meeting in Barraba, New South Wales. People realized the need of adult and community education, which can provide education to the unprivileged rural population in the local community. The college provided education services to small communities of Narrabri, Inverell, Warialda, Moree, Bingara and Gunedah. It provides pre-accredited programs and vocational accredited programs in the area of growing field and disability care. Adult Community Education (ACE) play very essential role in regional areas. In many regional areas of states, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia ACE provides post compulsory education ( Kelaher, Ferdinand Paradies) . In Queensland and Western Australia, volunteers and community-based organizations provide adult literacy and other small educational trainings. About 19% of the urban population in Australia is over the age of 65 community care services provides to old aged as well ( Keys et al. 2014) . Capricorn Community Literacy, receives government funding, it teaches the old aged people and those who have retired. The people who attend the tutoring classes are migrants who are taught English and an additional language and it teaches adults who are from English background but do not know to read and write. The aborigines value their culture and and traditions very much, family and community relations are their utmost priority. They want to give their children a better future, for which they can take possible actions. However, they might be financially weaker but they are strong and passionate people. They are hard working and when these qualities are directed towards a particular goal it is obvious results would be very good. Apart from that, Aborigines they are people who love nature and believe in conservation of natural resources, so the aborigines will never run short of resources because they know how to conserve the resources they have. Their strength lies in the resources they have, their unity, and their love towards their community. The Non- Aborigines have the basic education, they have more exposure than the Aborigines have, so approaching them is not that much of a challenge, because they are generally not reluctant, that is a positive attribute of the Non- Aborigines. It i s very easy to find a leader among them who can direct them. 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