Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Workshop

Join Heather Keam of Tamarack Institute for an insightful, all-day workshop on Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD). This workshop will introduce a strengths-based approach to building stronger communities together and offer tools and resources that will help you and your community embrace and contribute to community change.

To register and provide any dietary restrictions please complete this form by November 4, 2024: https://forms.gle/swpJxGtJAHsYdk2g7

What to bring?

A willingness to connect and learn from others. An open mind to alternative forms of community work. A pen and paper might also help!

What will I learn about?

ABCD as a people-centered approach: ABCD is a community-driven development (bottom-up) approach. It’s about focusing on strengths and not deficits or needs to develop programs and plans.

Resources in a community: ABCD is about uncovering the assets or resources that communities already have.

Methods to find assets: ABCD approaches are iterative and emergent. While there are no methods that we can prescribe, there are several practices that communities around the world have found helpful. Asset

Mapping is one way to uncover hidden community assets.

The functions of a community: Seven functions are critical features of local natural community work. They are bottom-up, hyper-local, and citizen-led.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together community champions from throughout the region – members of associations, board members, and local residents to explore the ABCD approach and discuss how these tools and ways of thinking can be applied to future community action.