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Making a Difference in Your Community

If you care deeply about a cause, this chapter offers tools for effective leadership and ways to take meaningful action in your community. Discover the main skills of a leader, leadership types, roles of leaders and followers, and how to contribute as a citizen, student, volunteer, or family member. Learn how to start small, engage in community service, support local initiatives, and understand the impact of volunteering. Take the first step towards making a positive impact in your community today!

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Making a Difference in Your Community

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  1. Making a Difference in Your Community Chapter 12

  2. If you care about something strongly you can find ways to take action

  3. Tools You Need • Leadership skills • Good leader uses their best talents for a goal • Takes responsibility for getting the job done • Enables group members to work together efficiently

  4. Main Skills of an Effective Leader • 1- management- leaders plan, organize, implement and evaluate project • 2- motivation – leader is sensitive to the ways each person can be best motivated • 3- communication – explains what needs to be done and what roles each member will play

  5. 4- problem solving – find solutions to problems that arise and use decision making and conflict resolution skills • 5- conduct meetings – parli pro these are rules that area democratic method for allowing people to voice their opinion in order to reach a majority decision

  6. Leadership Types • Authoritarian – give orders and make decisions alone • Democratic – share power and involve other in decisions • Laisses-faire –(French term) meaning to let people do as they chose • Gives member free rein and provide minimal guidance • Each style as pros and cons

  7. Leaders are… • Role models – person who sets an example for others • Exhibit fairness, cooperation, dedication, and responsibility

  8. The Skills of Following • “Too many chefs spoil the broth.” • What does it mean???

  9. Good Followers • Good followers are responsible • Complete assigned tasks • Cooperative spirit

  10. Make A Difference • A citizen – member of a community such as a school, city or nation • You have certain rights: • Receive education • Be protected by police

  11. Your Responsibilities • Be Informed • Read newspaper • Listen to news on radio or TV • Participating in government • Attend public meetings • Voice your opinion

  12. Respecting the rights of others • Individuality, needs, and property • Obeying the laws • Follow traffic signs, pay taxes refrain from criminal activities

  13. Fighting Crime • More than avoiding criminal activity • Begins with prevention • Securing property • Join neighborhood watch • Reporting crimes

  14. As a Student • A school is only as strong as the students and staff make it

  15. How can you contribute? • Help make school events a success by supporting and attending • Be a good sport at school events– your school’s reputation rides on your behavior

  16. Protect school environment • Money for repairs is lost for other programs • Help set school policies • Participate in student government

  17. Start a community service program that doesn’t exist • Both community and student body get a benefit • Help students who need assistance with a particular subject • tutor project

  18. As a Volunteer • Someone who puts caring into action by offering services free of charge • Program that supplies meals to the elderly • Can meet new people • Learn new job skills • Helping others brings feelings of self-worth and fulfillment

  19. Ideas for Teens • Pick something you believe is worthwhile and enjoy • Find ideas by talking to school counselor or reading the newspaper

  20. Join a recycling program • Help at a local food bank, senior citizen, animal shelter • Particpate in a charity walkathon or race

  21. Join Habitat for Humanity • For a group to beautify your community by planting flowers or remove graffiti • Counsel other on a teen hot line • Help with a campaign to combat violence, drunk driving or drug abuse

  22. As Family Member or Friend • When families and friends help people meet needs, there is less demand on community services • Be as simple as listening to a problem or assuming extra household chores

  23. Every Effort Counts • Starting small is a good idea • Small attainable goals are likely to succeed • Develop habit of helping • Cultivate attitude of caring

  24. Between 1992 and 1996, volunteering among teens increased 7% • Total volunteer hours rose by 17% during that time • Teens volunteered 2.3 billion hours

  25. Most often cited benefit of volunteering for teens was learning to respect others and their situations • Asking someone to volunteer made a great difference • More than 4 times more likely to help

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