April 2022 CD Practitioner Gathering Harvest

On Wednesday, April 13th we convened as community development practitioners once again for our monthly peer-based conversations.

You can access the full notes here, or flip through the note taking slides below!

 
 

We had two breakout rooms have conversations , and the highlights below were gathered from the group debrief.

Community Development work vs Crisis Management work

  • Explored how crises work with community development sometimes - we have to deal with them so that community members can get what they need

  • Help people to do things on their own so that we aren’t always handing out resources

Creative ways to gather with communities outdoors

  • Know your community, be grassroots, really know your populations, their interests, and build on them

  • Know your community’s assets and focus on activating them (e.g. the Little Free Libraries, the park spaces, the parking lots)

  • Bring indoors outside (e.g. bingo, painting)

  • Make tools and activities accessible to everyone. For instance, have a ‘Wheels Day’ instead of a ‘Bike Day’. Not everyone has a bike, and you might get more involved by signalling that roller skates, scooters, wheel chairs etc. work too!

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