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CESC Q4 Module3

This document discusses the core values and principles of community-action initiatives. It defines values as guidelines for behavior, principles as fundamental truths guiding actions and thinking, and assumptions as accepted truths. The document then states that community action is important as it focuses on empowering communities in designing and delivering local services. It lists the core values of community-action initiatives as including human rights, social justice, empowerment, advocacy, participatory development, and gender equality.

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CESC Q4 Module3

This document discusses the core values and principles of community-action initiatives. It defines values as guidelines for behavior, principles as fundamental truths guiding actions and thinking, and assumptions as accepted truths. The document then states that community action is important as it focuses on empowering communities in designing and delivering local services. It lists the core values of community-action initiatives as including human rights, social justice, empowerment, advocacy, participatory development, and gender equality.

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Good Morning

VALUES
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ASSUMPTION
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PRINCIPLE
ELPICPRIN
What Do We Mean by Values, Principles,
And Assumptions?
VALUES are our guidelines for living and in choosing the right
behavior. Each of us has a set of deeply held beliefs about how the
world should be. For some people, that set of beliefs is largely
dictated by a particular religion, denomination/ sect, culture, peer
group, or the society at large. For others, it has been arrived at
through careful thought and reflection on various experiences. For
most of us, it is probably a combination of the two. Values often
concern the core issues of our lives: personal relationships,
morality, gender and social roles, race, social classes, and the
organization of the society, to name just a few.
PRINCIPLES are the fundamental scientific,
logical, or moral/ethical “truths” arising from
experience, knowledge, and values on which
we base our actions and thinking.
ASSUMPTIONS are the next level of truths. The
ones we feel to be irrelevant we can take for
granted, given the principles we have accepted. If
we accept, for instance, that life is an
“unalienable right” – a right of every human
being that cannot be taken away – then we will
usually assume that killing another person is
wrong, or at least that we don’t have the right to
do it
Community-Action Initiatives
Based on its Core Values and
Principles
Community Action is any activity that
increases the understanding, engagement, and
empowerment of communities in the design
and delivery of local services.
Why is community action important?

Community action is necessary because it


focuses on putting communities at the heart
of their own local services.
CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF
COMMUNITY-ACTION INITIATIVES
 Human rights are universal and inalienable. All
people everywhere in the world are entitled to
them. “All human beings are born free and equal in
dignity and rights.”
CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF
COMMUNITY-ACTION INITIATIVES
 No one, therefore, should suffer discrimination on the basis
of race, colour, ethnicity, gender, age, language, sexual
orientation, religion, political or other opinion, national,
social or geographical origin. The rights of everyone to an
adequate standard of living cannot be compromised at the
expense of other rights, such as the right to health or the
right to education, property, birth or other status as
established by human rights standards.
CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF
COMMUNITY-ACTION INITIATIVES
 Rights are inherent to all human beings regardless of race, sex,
nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human
rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and
torture, freedom of expression, the right to work and education, and
many more. In essence, the human rights-based approach is the way
in which human rights can be protected in clinical and
organizational practice by adherence to the underlying core values
of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy.
CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF
COMMUNITY-ACTION INITIATIVES
 Social Justice Social justice is a concept of fair
and just relations between the individual and
society. This is measured by the explicit and tacit
terms for the distribution of wealth, opportunities
for personal activity, and social privileges.
CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF
COMMUNITY-ACTION INITIATIVES
 Social justice assigns rights and duties in the institutions of
society, which enables people to receive the basic benefits
and burdens of cooperation, including taxation, social
insurance, public health, public school, public services, labor
law and regulation of markets, to ensure fair distribution of
wealth, and equal opportunity. It is based on the concepts of
human rights and equality, and can be defined as "the way in
which human rights are manifested in the everyday lives of
people at every level of society".
CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF
COMMUNITY-ACTION INITIATIVES
 Empowerment and Advocacy Empowerment -
Authority or power given to someone to do something. -
Seeks to engage local populations in development
projects. Advocacy - Public support for or
recommendation of a particular cause or policy An
advocate is someone who provides advocacy support
when you need it
 Empowerment and advocacy are social democratic
practices that enable people to overcome barriers and
contribute to practice a focus on social justice. They
enable social workers to help give people chances to better
understand and change their lives. Both are concerned
with a shift of power or emphasis towards meeting the
needs and rights of people who otherwise would be
marginalized or oppressed
 Social work skills: Empowerment and advocacy.
Qualified social workers are expected to have the
necessary skills to empower service users to participate in
assessments and decision making and also to ensure that
service users have access to advocacy services if they are
unable to represent their own views.
 Participatory Development - Seeks to engage local
populations in development projects. - A process wherein
stakeholders can influence and share control over
development.
 Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, is
the state of equal ease of access to resources and
opportunities regardless of gender, including
economic participation and decision-making; and
the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations
and needs equally, regardless of gender.

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