Shift From Focus on Needs To Assets

1. Shift From Focus on Needs To Assets

2. A “Meeting Needs” Approach Neighborhood A group enters into a community and establishes itself.     

3. A “Meeting Needs” Approach Neighborhood  The new organization brings in outside resources to offer to the neighborhood.          

4. A “Meeting Needs” Approach Neighborhood  Which Results in Problems: • Lack of Sustainability • Dependency • Entitlement • Does Not Solve the Problem          

5. Real Needs Of The Urban Poor • Feeling of hopelessness. • Feeling of fatalism and “I can’t change anything”. • Don’t know what needs to change nor how to go about doing it. • Not organized to help hange themselves or neighborhood. • Aloneness and fragmentationin relationships.

6. A Shift: Seeing & Using the Assets • There are many people with skills, passions, gifting, and knowledge that can be shared. • There are many associations and networks already functioning in the neighborhood. • There are many people and networks waiting tobe used.

7. Asset-based NT Approach Neighborhood Training Team enters into a community. Team is from the community or a nearby community. They are often from a church.        

8. Asset-based NT Approach Neighborhood   Training Team watches, listens, asks questions, and engages community to learn and build relationships.      

9. Asset-based NT Approach Neighborhood Trained to make “Whole People”. Trainers can access over 3,000 lessons • Relevant • Address Felt Needs • Participatory Learning • Easy to Reproduce • Personal finance • Home repair • Stress Management  • Family Health • Women’s health • Prenatal Health • Job coaching • Small business • Mentoring    • Community Safety • Parenting • Caring for others 

10. Asset-based NT Approach Neighborhood        Training Team Equips and Empowers community members based on the community’s interests      

11. Asset-based NT Approach Neighborhood         Community members meet others house-to house, sharing what they have learned. This is Neighbors Helping Neighbors.         

12. Asset-based NT Approach Neighborhood     The result: a grassroots community movement that transforms the neighborhood and eventually the city. This creates Whole Communities that transform themselves from the inside out.                       

13. Why Focus on Assets Not Needs

14. Why Focus on Assets Not Needs

15. Neighbors Helping Neighbors Focusing on Assets Whole People, Whole Communities Being Transformed What We Are Doing