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Direct linkHiggins, Daryl J. – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2010
In this resource sheet, Dr Higgins examines child abuse and neglect in Indigenous communities from a societal perspective: applying a community development framework to understand effective strategies for reducing risks and enhancing children's safety and wellbeing. To be effective, strategies to address the problem of child abuse in Indigenous…
Descriptors: Community Development, Indigenous Populations, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Jacobsen, Mike; And Others – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1987
The principles of Gandhi are applied to the rural crisis in America with special attention to rural Iowa. Approaches to rural reconstruction and development are proposed which emphasize human-scale development, community-owned enterprises, local community development foundations, maximum feasible participation, broad-based land ownership, and…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Development, Decentralization, Land Acquisition
O'Toole, Kevin; Burdess, Neil – Journal of Rural Studies, 2004
State and federal governments in Australia have developed a range of policy instruments for rural areas in Australia that are infused with a new sense of "community," employing leading concepts like social capital, social enterprise, community development, partnerships and community building. This has encouraged local people and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Municipalities, Community Control, Governance
Peer reviewedBockmeyer, Janice L. – Urban Studies, 2000
Examines Detroit's economic development policy-making culture and assesses its impact on the formation of the community development corporation (CDC) network that dominated Empowerment Zone (EZ) planning in the initial stages. Analyzes the importance of distrust between City Hall, business interests, and community residents in consolidating CDC…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Development
Download full textle Roux, Braam – 1998
The Kuru Development Trust is a development support program that is owned and controlled by the communities in which the organization operates, the majority being San, or Bushmen, communities in the Kalahari region of Africa. Following a holistic approach to development, Kuru is involved in a wide range of activities, including income-generating…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Control, Community Development, Community Involvement
Jenkins, Dorothy I.; Jenkins, Quentin A. L. – 1998
Rural community development is undergoing changing visions, activities, and methodologies. Factors impacting this change include decentralization, budget reduction in the public sector, and globalization and downsizing in the private sector. Community "building" (community-generated change and emphasis on capacities rather than…
Descriptors: Action Research, American Indians, Community Control, Community Development
