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This discussion focuses on how the whole community can better support each other, resolve conflicts, and encourage personal growth and healthy social relationships.
Each of use at time experience struggles in various aspect of their life, whether this is in personal crisis, basic necessities, conflict resolution, emotional or physical wellbeing, or areas of social or spiritual life.
While many of us already have significant, positive support systems, there are a lot of our neighbors who have inadequate support systems and no means to find resources or resolve conflicts.
There are two great fallacies regarding caring and supporting one another.
The first is the fallacy that only professionals can help those with these types of challenges.
The second is that once some is referred to a professional, that person is going to receive all the help that they need.
In reality, those of us who are in the profession of helping people know that there are many gaps in providing support for our clients. We are always looking for outside support for our clients. Often all we find is over-stressed and fragmented extended family support. Frequently, our clients we don't even have this option.
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the absence of traditional family and community support, how do we as a
community respond to our neighbors? This is the focus of this
discussion. What do you think is needed? Who do you think need access
to support. What strategies do you think would increase the caring
capacity of Mariposa? Please share your thoughts, make your voice
heard and post a comments today.
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CORE VALUES
1) Every person has dignity, value and giftedness and can contribute positively to the community.
2) Everyone can improve their quality of life when they have realistic and available opportunities AND if they consistently make healthy choices.
3) We need each other to provide opportunities and to support healthy choices. Healthy communities are marked by having avenues to facilitate opportunities and support those healthy choices.
4) We can best express care by expressing hope. By focusing on positive choices and even incremental progress, much can be accomplish toward supporting each other.
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LETS BUILD A PRACTICAL COMMUNITY-BASED STRATEGY OF CARING?
Let us, as a community, develop a practical strategy of caring where both helping professionals and community members working together to provide a continuum of support. Where no one "falls between the crack" and good intention are match with integrated care.
The first step proposed is to develop a Basic Helping Skills certification for our community. This would be like CPR certification, but rather than responding to medical emergencies, individuals would be trained in emotional support and encouragement. The proposed curriculum would include 1) the basic of active listening, 2) identifying personal and family strengths, 3) appreciation of cultural diversity, 4) basic conflict resolution skills, and 5) awareness of community resources. |
