Foreword / Bishop Andrew W. Curnow -- About Anglicare Australia and St. Luke's Anglicare -- Preface. Revitalising community and drediscovering hope -- Origins and purpose: a background -- Part 1. The strengths approach: a philosophy for change -- Part 2. Building communities through a strengths approach -- Part 3. Building communities of hope: a workshop -- Workshop Day One. Unit 1. Constraints to growth and change -- Unit 2. Bringing hope: conditions for change and power-with -- Unit 3. Processes for bringing hope -- Workshop Day Two. Unit 4. Skills for building hope -- Unit 5. Community, community building and their importance -- Workshop Day Three. Unit 6. Skills for consultation and community capacity building -- Unit 7. Supporting and sustaining change and participation -- Handout Masters (39 handouts) -- Additional questions for community building
Summary
Communities of hope describes a strengths approach to community capacity building. This approach is concerned with the building of a community's own capacity and potential