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Assignment:
The goal of this assignment is to document your community's existing resources to incorporate these assets and strengths in community practice. The process of asset mapping is to identify various elements of your neighbourhood that serve as positive resources. Please be specific in your responses and focus on your own geographic neighbourhood in this asset mapping process and critically reflect on the questions that follow.
1. Name the community where you currently reside: Scarborough (Ontario) Community
2. List the name and address of your local Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Parliament
3. Please learn more about your neighbourhood. Take a walk in your neighbourhood, learn what'sthere, research and list the unique community assets in your own area in each of the categories.
Provided below (Fill out all the boxes provided). What are some neighborhood or community associations, local industries (e.g. General Motors Manufacturing Plant/Facility), individuals, physical spaces and institutions in your community that might support community practice? Please explore your community thoroughly and provide specific details and links to web sites from your own geographic area.
4. Which of the assets that you have listed above (associations, institutions, physical community, industry or powerful individuals) are you a part of or connected to? Why or why not?
5. List four distinct skills that you personally possess that will help you align with four distinct principles of Strengths-Based Community Development perspective. Please explain the principles of this theoretical perspective and provide examples of your skills with your answer.
6. What needs to be done to keep your community strong and healthy, and to support these assets you have identified? Please share examples of two unique community events or forums or initiatives that took place this year in your local area that has connected diverse community members during the pandemic. Describe the community assets that were used to host the community event or forum or initiative.