What Are the Different Community Development Models?

The community development model refers to a work model that mobilizes the participation and mutual assistance and cooperation of community residents, and the assistance and support of higher-level governments and external organizations to mobilize resources inside and outside the community, solve community problems, and meet the needs of residents. This model emphasizes the participation and cooperative communication of residents, and focuses on the cultivation of residents' personal ability, public awareness and sense of community belonging in the community development process, not just the construction of the community's physical environment.

Community development model

Definition of community development model

1. Community care: refers to a welfare service model that uses community resources and the community's informal support relationship network to leave service targets in the community environment and provide them with care and assistance in a familiar environment. Community care has three different meanings: care in the community, care by the community, and care for the community.

Community development model characteristics

1. Provide care to the client in the normalized environment and manner that the client is familiar with, and amend the client's problems caused by the institutional care.
2. Pay attention to the use of the combination of informal natural relationship networks and formal networks in the community, and want to provide help and services to those who serve them.
3. Give play to the positive role of social capital in social support networks and avoid social exclusion caused by it.
4. Pay attention to the damage of the informal social network caused by the changes of modern society. On the one hand, we must try to repair the social network that connects individuals. On the other hand, we must emphasize the establishment and extension of formal organizations in the community.
5. The existence of informal social networks should not be used to mitigate the services provided to the community by formal networks such as governments and institutions.

Community development model China trial

Chinese society is in the process of modernization, so the traditional interpersonal relationship network is being destroyed by the rational organization of the modern society. On the other hand, China's social welfare policy has always emphasized the role of family and community in the care of welfare services. These are the social foundations for China to play a role in community care. However, China's social welfare policy places too much emphasis on community care, and neglecting government input will affect the normal functioning of community care.

This information is provided by Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology