Useful Projects provides services that can assist in your community work. From exploring and mapping a community, to facilitating engagement, co-developing community plans and measures of change – our expertise and experience can help you enrich your community work.
Workshops
Gretchen has been an adult educator for over 20 years. Useful Projects offers tailor-made training and professional development services for individuals, groups and organisations. Some popular workshops include:
- Asset-based community development
- Collaborative research, monitoring and evaluation approaches
- Network thinking and network analysis in community work
- Planning community projects and programs
- Program planning, monitoring and evaluation
- Arts-based approaches to engaging communities
Asset Mapping & Community Planning Services
Community work requires a strong understanding of the community itself. Asset mapping is a strengths-focused, positive way of engaging with a community to understand what the skills, knowledge, experiences community members hold. Discovering the cultural, natural and built treasures in a community is an empowering and inspiring process. With a strong base in what a community ‘has, the challenges of a community can be addressed from a position of power. People can work together using community assets to challenge and change in the direction they choose. Community ideas form the basis of a useful, community-led plan for positive social change.
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