CCAP Community Development & Engagement 2

Question 1

Which community engagement approach prioritizes building relationships before addressing specific issues or needs?

Accepted Answer

Asset-based community development (ABCD)

Answer

ABCD focuses on identifying and mobilizing existing community strengths and relationships rather than leading with deficits or problems.

Question 2

A community action agency wants to ensure low-income residents have meaningful input into program design. Which mechanism BEST achieves this?

Accepted Answer

Placing low-income representatives on the governing board

Answer

The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) tripartite board requires that at least one-third of members represent low-income community members, ensuring direct governance participation.

Question 3

What is 'community capacity' in the context of community development?

Accepted Answer

The collective ability of residents to identify, respond to, and sustain solutions to local challenges

Answer

Community capacity refers to the combined skills, resources, and relationships that enable a community to effectively address its own needs and opportunities.

Question 4

A CAP agency conducts a Community Needs Assessment and finds high rates of food insecurity. Which step should immediately follow analysis of findings?

Accepted Answer

Share findings with community stakeholders and co-develop response strategies

Answer

Effective community development requires sharing assessment findings with community members and stakeholders to collaboratively determine priorities and solutions.

Question 5

The 'ladder of citizen participation' developed by Sherry Arnstein is used in community development to assess:

Accepted Answer

The degree of power-sharing between residents and institutions

Answer

Arnstein's ladder describes eight levels of participation ranging from manipulation (no real power) to citizen control (full community authority).

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CCAP Community Development & Engagement 2