Community Development Frameworks

Community Development means different things to different people.  To some its about bricks and mortars, to others its about programs and activities and to many its about plans and strategies.  To P4CT Community Development is about ALL those things and much more. The following are the two frameworks that make up the Core Values of our Community Development activities.

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)

Asset Based Community Development  is a process of listening to the community, discovering the assets and resources available, connecting and mobilizing these assets to cast a vision for a preferred future and developing programs and activities with the community. The ABCD framework encourages and fosters relationships between people, associations, organizations, institutions and businesses as a tool for making life better for everyone in the community.  This framework presupposes that the people who live, work and worship in a community have the right and the responsibility to determine the future of their community.

For more information on the ABCD framework visit the ABCD Institute at www.abcd.org

Christian Community Development

Chrisitan Community Development is a Christ-Centered wholistic approach to community transformation.  There are 8 key components that embodies this framework.

1. Relocation (living in and among the communities served)
2. Reconciliation (across racial and socio-economic divides)
3. Redistribution (equitable and just distribution of resources)
4. Leadership development (representational leadership)
5. Listening to the community (self determination)
6. Church-based (transformational power of the church)
7. Holistic approach (physical, spiritual, social etc.)
8. Empowerment (moving from betterment to development)

For more information on CCD visit www.ccda.org