Building Successful Collaborations with Communities: Asset-Based Community Development

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Two-week course | March 17 - March 28, 2025

This 2-week course describes the principles of Asset-Based Community Development as a tool for building community coalition and for community storytelling.

This online course is part of the "Building Successful Collaborations with Communities" series, which addresses four topics in community engagement:

  1. Community-Based Librarianship
  2. Asset-Based Community Development  (i.e., this course)
  3. Collective Impact
  4. Grassroots Librarianship

The Series integrates concepts of community engagement with application tools for practicing librarians. Community engagement begins with librarians themselves as members of the community having ownership and vested interest in its success. The community defines the library. The library is the backbone infrastructure to engage community members and agencies for desired changes. Participants will learn to use tools of appreciative inquiry and Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) with the goal to facilitate positive changes in the local community.

Objectives:

  1. To apply appreciative inquiry in community storytelling
  2. To develop a community agency narrative using ABCD

Presenter:

John Bramble, MLIS, MBMI

Lauren Wittek, Communication Specialist, Region 4

As the NNLM Region 4 Communication Specialist, I focus on leading Region 4’s bi-directional communication strategy. I have an MLIS from the University of Washington and a BS in Marketing from the University of Maryland.

 

This content is provided by the National Library of Medicine. You will need to create a free account to access the training.

 

Referral: National Library of Medicine