Community Development Model – dr hab. Barbara Klimek

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Community Development Model: Application for Developing Community Programs

Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people by providing them with the skills they need to effect change in their own communities. Building the sustainable and well-functioning communities is one of the primary keys in developing the modern society. Environment stressors often create disconnect and inability for members of any given group to stay healthy and productive members of their community. Locality Development was identified as a model of social innovation consistent with the objectives of community integration, empowerment, and sustainability. The collaborative leadership is introduced as one of the best ways to lead and unite members of the community to progress and accomplish the community program goals defined by its vision and mission.

This lecture introduces the concepts of the Locality Development model, stages and basis for implementation, describes the collaborative leadership and how to implement strategies of this type of leadership for benefit of the community development. The concepts of social work principles related to person-in-environment, strength perspectives, and utilization of the case management are introduced as a primary core principles within which healthy communities and community programs can be built and developed. The case management approach allows practitioners and community leaders to facilitate community empowerment through relationship building and local resource mobilization.

This presentation explores the implications of community development approaches for building sustainable, healthy and productive establishments in modern society, as well as for social development practice. As an example of the macro practice, it demonstrates and highlights the empowerment or “energizing” of groups at risk through the promotion of social and economic justice.

About the speaker:
Barbara Klimek, PhD, MSW, is a Clinical Associate Professor and MSW Coordinator in Arizona State University’s School of Social Work. She holds an MSW degree from ASU, MA degree in Economics, major: Econometrics from Warsaw School of Economics, and Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Warsaw. She is also the Director of the Office of Global Social Work, Senior Sustainability Scientist with the Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), and Affiliate Faculty of the Master of Social Justice and Human Rights program at ASU. Prior to joining the faculty at ASU, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Warsaw, where she was engaged in research and teaching in the areas of economics and econometrics. She came to ASU with 25 years of experience working in social service agencies. She has many years of practice experience in generalist case management, program design, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring in social service organizations. Dr. Klimek’s research agenda is related to issues of cultural diversity, specifically refugees and immigrants, as well as international social work.

The lecture is a part of the series “The Challenges to the Humanities in the 21st Century”, organized by SWPS University Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies Program.