B.

COMMUNITY ACTION
Community action – is any activity that increases the
understanding engagement and empowerment of
communities in the design and delivery of local services.

- community action’s programs offers many pathways

act of poverty’s negative impacts, we make our
communities a better place to live for everyone.
 1. OVERVIEW
a) Community Engagement – is the process of working
collaboratively with community groups to address issues.
Activities that helps firms engage the community.
b) Solidarity – a unity as a group or class that produces or
is based on community of interests, objective, and
standards
c) Citizenship – The status of being a citizen of particular
place and the quality of an individual’s response to
membership in a community.
 Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship
focuses on the application of ideas and methods of the
social sciences to examine challenges of contemporary
community.
2. PURPOSES OF COMMUNITY ACTION
a) Major issues affecting poor and Marginalized
Communities
1. Poor people fails to meet a ‘’minimum requirement’’
Minimum requirement (poverty line)
- is defined by what is ‘’socially acceptance’’. It
emerges out of the historical circumstances of a particular
society and is thus relative to a particular place and time.
2. To be resolved is the definition of income.
Income – is of course a flow variable and the flow may
not be constant overtime.
In some countries, for example there may be substantial
seasonal fluctuations in income associated with the
production cycle in agriculture.
3. To narrow the concept to money income.
- remittances received from members working
outside the household, gifts, and transfer payment
from government.
4. To focus on household expenditure
- Income may diverge from expenditure is a
better indicator of current well-being than income
5. To be resolved is the minimum requirement itself.
- the majority of countries, when designating a
national poverty line, reduce poverty to a
physiological phenomenon, namely, an inadequate
diet.
b) The Role of the Youth in Community Action
Young people are the number one stakeholder
of development. We the youth have the power to
change the living standards of our communities .
 Youth should stand up and do something for their
community.
 Youth should offer time to help our community through
volunteering
 Youth should organize themselves as a group and together
they can tackle the problems our people face
 Youth should engage challenging activity that will
contribute to a change in society.
3. SELECTED CASES OF COMMUNITY ACTION
INITIATIVES
LGBT advocates, addressing the regulatory hurdles to
timely and appropriate research for better AIDS
treatments, protested and advocated for change and
succeeded in substantially altering the way the National
Institutes of Health reviews and conducts human subjects
research across all domains.
Lists of lawsuits conducted by Disability Rights
Advocates
The mental health parity work conducted by the
National Alliance on the Mental Illness (NAMI) or the
Bithlo Transformation Effort.