Rural Community Revitalization Discussion Guides
Community Development Discussion Guides are tools to use in working with your community in asking the right questions. The discussion guides consist of two parts. One is a list of questions on such subjects as volunteer recruitment, leadership, agricultural involvement, beautification, history, rural culture, schools, churches, hospitals, youth, and others. The other part is a facilitator’s manual to empower community leaders to help with the discussions.
- For a puzzle to be complete, every piece must be in place. Community development is a process that requires multiple pieces, and economic development is but one. Many people equate economic development with community development, but the two are distinctly different. In terms of logic, community development is not a part of economic development, but economic development is a part of community development.
- In order to conduct a community dialogue, you will need to make it clear to all participants why you are having a meeting. To have a successful session where opinions and thoughts are shared, the leader and/or facilitator must prepare for the meeting to produce conducive dialogue that will provide meaning.
