SELECTED CASES OF

COMMUNITY-ACTION
INITIATIVES
Group 7
 COMMUNITY-ACTION
INITIATIVES

• created to support community-led projects that promote

mental health, prevent substance use problems and
promote effective treatment and support for individuals and
families experiencing mental health and/or substance use
challenges.
• generally a network of individuals and partner organizations
dedicated to improving the health and welfare of a
community. It seeks to deal with and reduce the effect of
social problems, in order to improve peoples' quality of life.
CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF
COMMUNITY-ACTION INITIATIVES

• Human rights
• Social justice
• Empowerment and advocacy
• Participatory development
• Gender equality
 HUMAN RIGHTS
rights inherent to all human beings,
regardless of race, sex, nationality,
ethnicity, language, religion, or any
other status. Human rights include
the right to life and liberty, freedom
from slavery and torture, freedom of
opinion and expression, the right to
work and education, and many more.
In essence, the human rights-
based approach is the way in
which human rights can be
protected in clinical and
organizational practice by
adherence to the underlying core
values of fairness, respect, equality,
dignity and autonomy
 SOCIAL JUSTICE

Social justice principles refer to

is based on the concepts of human
values “that favors measures that
rights and equality, and can be
aim at decreasing or eliminating
defined as "the way in which
inequity; promoting inclusiveness
human rights are manifested in
of diversity; and establishing
the everyday lives of people at
environments that are supportive
every level of society". A number
of all people. "The social justice
of movements are working to
principles include: equity, diversity
achieve social justice in society.
and supportive environments.
 are social democratic practices that
enable people to overcome barriers and
contribute to practice a focus on social
justice. They enable social workers to
help give people changes to better
EMPOWERM understand and change their lives.
ENT AND
ADVOCACY both concerned with a shift of power or
emphasis towards meeting the needs
and rights of people who otherwise
would be marginalized or oppressed.
 a process through which stakeholders can
influence and share control over
development initiatives, and over the
decisions and resources that affect
themselves.
It seeks to engage local populations in
PARTICIPATORY development projects. Participatory
development has taken a variety of forms
DEVELOPMENT since it emerged in the 1970s, when it was
introduced as an important part of the "basic
needs approach" to development.Two
perspectives that can define PD are the
"Social Movement Perspective" and the
"Institutional Perspective“.
 SOCIAL MOVEMENT
PERSPECTIVE
• The "Social Movement
Perspective" defines
participation as the
mobilization of people to
eliminate unjust hierarchies of
knowledge, power, and
economic distribution.This
perspective identifies the goal
of participation as an
empowering process for people
to handle challenges and
influence the direction of their
own lives
INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
• The "Institutional Perspective"
defines participation as the
reach and inclusion of inputs by
relevant groups in the design
and implementation of a
development project.The
"Institutional Perspective" uses
the inputs and opinions of
relevant groups, or
stakeholders in a community, as
a tool to achieve a pre-
established goal defined by
someone external to the
community involved.
 GENDER EQUALITY

also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of
access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic
participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors,
aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.

Gender equality is achieved when women and men enjoy the same
rights and opportunities across all sectors of society, including
economic participation and decision-making, and when the different
behaviors, aspirations and needs of women and men are equally valued
and favored.
 METHODOLOGIES AND
APPROACHES OF COMMUNITY
ACTIONS AND INVOLVEMENTS
ACROSS DISCIPLINES
1.Partnership building with local groups
2.Community profiling
3.Needs assessment
4.Working with a core group/leadership
development/participatory action
planning
• Partnership building with local groups
A community meeting on future perspectives in local
development planning is a way to create a shared vision for
partnership building. It enrols those stakeholders, who have
the power of information on the topics at hand and those
who are affected by the outcomes.
• Community Profiling
a social research method which involves building up a
picture of the nature, needs and resources of a locality or
community, with the active participation of its members, the
aim being to create and implement an action plan to address
the issues unearthed
• Needs assessment
a systematic process for determining and addressing needs, or
"gaps" between current conditions and desired conditions or
"wants".The discrepancy between the current condition and
wanted condition must be measured to appropriately identify the
need.
• Working with a core group of leaders/leadership
development/participatory action planning
one in which everyone who has a stake in the intervention has
a voice, either in person or by representation. Staff of the
organization that will run it, members of the target population,
community officials, interested citizens, and people from involved
agencies, schools, and other institutions all should be invited to the
table. Everyone's participation should be welcomed and respected,
and the process shouldn't be dominated by any individual or group,
or by a single point of view.