Community Mobilization, Support and Empowerment

This course will build on the concepts, theory and skills introduced in the Community Development course. Students will gain practice in facilitating change in communities by investigating strategies in empowering and supporting mobilization efforts, including the recruitment and development of a community mobilization team. Further, the course will highlight community policing efforts and restorative justice practices in the mobilization context and will allow students the opportunity to identify various methods of communication that support community mobilization efforts. Lastly, students will investigate the evaluative processes that can be used to gauge the success of community mobilization projects.