Development

Hi Salman

First thing is that the suggestions from me are not indicating that you should change your assignment. You should consider adding the suggestions throughout the assignment.

Please consider the following before submitting your assignment:

· You should consider reconstructing your assignment (focus on paraphrasing) more as your assignment matches with assignments done by other students in the past.

· You should proof read the assignment a few times more as I have found many sentences that either does not make sense or is not complete.

· You only focused on one thing only that is “community patrolling”. You should also consider adding the idea of how building trust among the people of the community can also make them feel safe and will also help them to connect with other people in the community. This can be done in various ways. As you mentioned that different people from different culture and race live in the area. Maybe they can meet in the local school every three months or maybe every school holiday where a community get-together may take place. In the get-together they can come up with activities such as sharing their culture and food and also discuss and educate each other and the community leaders about the ongoing project. This will help them to connect more and build trust which will result in making them feel safer to live in that area. You can also consider the theories of networking where the local leaders can come up with the idea of collaborating with the police to receive some sort of training also that will help with the project.

· Time line of the project: you will never achieve anything if your project is just for 6 months. Any community development project should at least be more than 1 year. And the planning should be done according to that.

· Budget: The budget should be also done according to the timeline of the project and also consider matching the amount you will be applying for from the NT government.

· Please keep in mind that you have to reference from good articles. Don’t make it look like a story by writing what will happen in the project. Back them up with good researched references.

· Make sure when someone reads your assignment, it does not feel like that you as a community worker is forcing your ideas on the local people.

· Keep in mind that everything you add in this assignment should reflect throughout the assignment.

Project Summary

To address increase in the rate of crime and violence in the community, this development project plan concerns working with public housing residents. The project is going to take place in Northern Territory suburb of Rapid Creek. According to Boyd et al (2016), there shall be not less than 50 families living in public houses are going to participate. Such families have been identified as low income families and are depending on government housing program that subsidizes public funds. The families under the study have members that are not exceeding 5 and not less than 3 members in a particular household. The families are coming from Torres Strait Islander as well as Aboriginal. However, a few families involved in the project are coming from other different backgrounds in terms of race.

Project Aims

This project aims at providing crucial interventions to ensure as well as facilitate safety in each family and individuals in the community involved in the project. In addition, the project aims at reducing crime and violence incidences in such communities.

Why the Project Needed

It is important that each and every community’s safety is taken into consideration for the development of the community worker as well as public officials and people living in the community. Over and above this, each and every individual has a right to live safely in the community as well as within the households in which they exist. The findings by Dum, Socia and Rydberg (2017) indicates that the risks which members of the community do not want to experience involve assault in streets, unknown people ransacking houses when owners are not present as well as cars being stolen. These are some the things that many people in any other communities would not wish to experience.

Violence and crime incidences are on the rise in the community. A resident notified Community development worker about the same. This is evidence that there is willingness within the people to cooperate with community workers. As such, a community worker is convinced that there is somebody to facilitate safety project in the area (Levy, Adams and Adamkiewicz, 2017). Safety of the people is important whether there is a rise in violence and crime or not. This is what ultimately may lead to the prosperity of a community.

Community Work Model

The community development worker shall use Locality development approach/model for the safety of the community in public housing residence (Giele, 2013). The approach promotes process goals through locality building. Such goals involve solving problems in self-help basis terms, what is also known as community competency, as well as through social integration. Social integration refers to the interrelationship of different social class groups, ethnic as well as different races and among everybody. This approach is the most important model in solving community problem in the public housing residence. This is because there is interest by the community members to involve themselves and cooperate with the community workers in addressing and solving the issues at hand. This approach assumes that to solve a community problem and community change, broad participation should be pursued and people in local community should be involved in identifying goals and civic actions in achieving such goals (Ruiu, 2016). The social worker along with locality development model shall take the opportunity of the community’s strengths to encourage activities that that are geared towards ensuring their safety concerns. Even though the cooperation seems to be helpful, sometimes it is not easy for one to tell whether such cooperation shown by the community may not be easy to sustain till the project comes to an end. A number of people lost their motivation in cooperating with community workers to the end of the project. Attitude which appreciates human dignity, rights, and capacity as well as respect diversity is what strength diversity demands. It is also important to note that it is not easy to maintain cooperative ethos. Studies indicate that cooperation shown by many people had never survived for a long time.

When coming up with the plan of community project, development worker shall include some theories in practice. Social movement theory is the most important theory which may be linked with the condition of public housing residence. The social movement theory refers to a kind of collective action that is geared towards attaining social change as well as social reorganisation. Achieving social change is what the public housing residence is attempting to gather. The main goal was to achieve peaceful and safe community. The change was made possible by people working together within the community. In addition, action is what prompts community change, whereas existence of preconditions is what makes such changes to take place.

Objectives, strategies and Activities of the Project

OBJECTIVE

To encourage activities which may promote security and safety at Rapid Creek in the public housing residence? In addition, is to assist in reducing crime and violence incidence in the project community.

STRATEGIES

Community development worker shall utilize the strategies below to attain the above mentioned objectives:

· Development of strategic programme to implement the activities.

· Volunteer recruitment to help in facilitating the activities.

· Location of common areas in which crime and violence incidences happened.

· Make use of manpower at the community level.

· Understand external and internal resources to assist development plan organisation.

ACTIVITIES

· Development of a programme that rotates for men coming from the same community to do a patrol in specific streets that violence and crime commonly happen.

· Organising a meeting with the leaders, including local leaders, to come up with a plan necessary in curbing the problem of crime and violence.

· Involving the closest police station within the community and requesting for increased presence of the police apparatus in those areas that appear to have a rise in the cases of violence and crime incidences.

· Mobilise the community people and engage them in a meeting that is aimed at sensitizing them on crime and violence and how it can be brought to an end.

· Disseminate security numbers or any numbers to the members of the community, which they can, use whenever they witness anything that is peculiar and suggesting violence or crime.

· Ensure facilitation of cooperation of people in the community to encourage them to watch over their neighbours through conducting door to door education on security and violence.

Evaluation

The effectiveness of the activities carried out as mentioned above to curb violence and crime incidences are dependent on whether the implementation of such activities would be effective or not. The findings by Crawford and Sainsbury (2017) shows that to bring together people from the community including the leaders on around table to discuss issues affecting them in light of crime and violence, would assist the community worker to gather internal resources as well as manpower in such a community. However, it is important to know the type of local leaders that the community worker would talk to in such meetings to come up a development plan for the community. For instance, the community worker would talk to; action leaders that can be followed by the other and make things happen, opinion leaders whose opinions matter a lot as it’s able to change the point of view of other people in the community. Representative leaders that is instrumental in ensuring that members of the community are represented inside and outside the community. All the three groups of leaders are important to the community development worker because they give insight to issues affecting the community.

Using persons in the community involve using volunteer men to go around the areas that are considered hot spots for security and safety and are known by the community to have rampant crime and violence incidences (Giele, 2013). In addition to this activity, community development worker involve police officers so as to appeal with them to increase their numbers in those areas that are considered dangerous in terms of security of the community members of such areas. The community worker should ensure that he coordinates with such police apparatus to reduce violence and crime in the area. Research shows that patrols are done in order to ensure that harm is stopped and that there is community security, peace and safety are maintained. Studies show that such strategies have been adopted in a number of countries including Australia to prevent violence and crime.

Giele, (2013) asserts that sensitization of the community members on the ways of dealing with crime and violence incidences is important in creation of a safe and violence free place of residence. People from the community know which number to call for help when faced with violence and insecurity is also very imperative. Another effective method to prevent violence and crime is sensitization and education.

Budget

Brochures with emergency numbers used to make a call when one witnesses crime and violence in the community.	Printing brochures - $98
Coordinating with closest police station within the community and requesting for more police officers in areas with high rate crime and violence	Public officials do not charge any amount of money hence there is no budget for the request.
Development of rotating program for groups of men in the community to patrol in the streets and areas with cases of crime and violence incidences.	Man power in this case is dependent on individuals who volunteer to do the work. As such, the activity is not budgeted for.
Mobilise the community people and engage them in a meeting that is aimed at sensitizing them on crime and violence and how it can be brought to an end.	Sound system-89$ Refreshment—142$ Venue- 226$
Facilitation of cooperation of people in the community to encourage them to watch over their neighbours through conducting door to door education on security and violence.	This does not need any budget since volunteers would do the work
Organising a meeting with the leaders, including local leaders, to come up with a plan necessary in curbing the problem of crime and violence.	61$ for refreshments

Potential Sources of Funds

The funds that shall be used for the project are grants from the Northern Territory. Community Benefit Funds is one source of funding for the project. SKYCITY Casino, licensed hotels and Lasseter Casino is where this fund is collected. Darwin base non-profit organisation is what the type of funding is meant for (Garland, Wodahl and Saxon, 2017). . As such, they give two kinds of grants. One of the types is major community grants which is up to $200, 000 whereas the other one is small community grants that is up to $100,000. The project requires about $100,000 since it does not involve a lot of expenses. As such, the community worker will go for the small community grant.

An NT regional council or NT-based non-profit community organisation should be incorporated for one to qualify for the grant. This is in accordance to corporation act 2001, association act, association act 1976 as well as aboriginal council and other relevant acts of parliament.

Project timeline

Brochures with emergency numbers used to make a call when one witnesses crime and violence in the community.	3 weeks Done with door to door visit.
Coordinating with closest police station within the community and requesting for more police officers in areas with high rate crime and violence	2 days
Development of rotating program for groups of men in the community to patrol in the streets and areas with cases of crime and violence incidences.	Development of a schedule-3days Rounds in risky areas are up to 6 months The patrol to take place after two days.
Mobilise the community people and engage them in a meeting that is aimed at sensitizing them on crime and violence and how it can be brought to an end.	1 day Up to 3 months
Facilitation of cooperation of people in the community to encourage them to watch over their neighbours through conducting door to door education on security and violence.	3 weeks
Organising a meeting with the leaders, including local leaders, to come up with a plan necessary in curbing the problem of crime and violence.	2 days

Limitations and Weaknesses of Project

This project is entirely dependent on the man power and the utilization of the same in most of its activities. In addition, it is also dependent on volunteerism of the men to ensure its success enhancing safety in the community. People must get engaged in order for the project to progress accordingly. As such, the community worker is supposed to engage in a continuous communication in terms of how the project is progressing (Giele, 2013). This is also crucial in ensuring that volunteers develop interest in the kind of work they do. Studies show that levels of involvement by people frequently change. Strong affiliations are developed through communication and not whether one is actively involved in a role or less active words (Meth and Buthelezi, 2017). As such, the community worker should try as much as possible to reach everybody whether they have interest or not. This is important as it will enable those who are less interested in the engagement to access information on what to do when they come face to face with violence or crime. He should give them the information on where to call.

Another limitation that could affect the community worker is the model of the project. The goals with mutual agreement are what to consider legitimate in the model used in the project. As such, it ignores the incompatible interests.

References

Boyd, J., Cunningham, D., Anderson, S., & Kerr, T. (2016). Supportive housing and surveillance. International Journal of Drug Policy, 34, 72-79.

Crawford, B., & Sainsbury, P. (2017). Opportunity or loss? Health impacts of estate renewal and the relocation of public housing residents. Urban policy and research, 35(2), 137-149.

Dum, C. P., Socia, K. M., & Rydberg, J. (2017). Public support for emergency shelter housing interventions concerning stigmatized populations: Results from a factorial survey. Criminology & Public Policy, 16(3), 835-877.

Garland, B., Wodahl, E., & Saxon, C. (2017). What influences public support of transitional housing facilities for offenders during reentry?. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 28(1), 18-40.

Giele, J. Z. (2013). Family policy and the American safety net. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE.

Levy, D. E., Adams, I. F., & Adamkiewicz, G. (2017). Delivering on the promise of smoke-free public housing. American journal of public health, 107(3), 380-383.

Meth, P., & Buthelezi, S. (2017). New housing/new crime? Changes in safety, governance and everyday incivilities for residents relocated from informal to formal housing at Hammond’s Farm, eThekwini. Geoforum, 82, 77-86.

Ruiu, M. L. (2016). The social capital of cohousing communities. Sociology, 50(2), 400-415.