Locate and match
community resources
Module 4
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, participants should be able to know:
1 How to support communities
using an asset-based approach? 2 How to ensure safeguarding of
beneficiaries?
3 How to ensure adequate follow up
with community organizations? 4 How can SP support community building
following a crisis?
Lesson 1:
Supporting
communities using
an asset-based
approach
Asset-based approach
✓ Asset-based focus
✓ Positive approach
Asset-based approach
What are the assets that I
Local Community can rely on in my
community to support
✓ Internal assets social prescribing
✓ Capabilities
beneficiaries?
Asset-based approach
✓ Community organizations
✓ NGOs
✓ Formal & informal
associations
✓ Private & public institutions
Asset-based approach
Asset-based approach
Case study: Japan
Case study: Vietnam
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Referral system
✓ Support of community services
✓ Ensure the continuity of patient care
Referral system
✓ Name and activities
✓ Address
✓ Contact person information
✓ Capacity
✓ Ability to welcome patients with
special needs
✓ Schedule of activities
✓ Location accessibility (transport)
Lesson 2:
Ensuring the
safeguarding of
beneficiaries
Safeguarding your patients
✓ Challenging financial & social
situations
✓ Vulnerability to abuse and harm
✓ Physical or cognitive conditions
! Adaptation to local circumstances !
Safeguarding your patients
• Trustworthy & benevolent
• Inclusive & non-discriminatory
• Care & respect & dignity
• Protection from harm and abuse
• Activity-related risks
• Capacity for complex needs
Lesson 3:
Ensuring adequate follow-up with
community organizations
Follow-up
✓ Patient satisfaction
✓ Capacity change
✓ Additional support needed
✓ Additional referrals
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Lesson 4:
Social prescribing –
supporting community
building following a crisis
Safeguarding your patients
✓ Higher risk of isolation
✓ Increased loneliness,
depression and anxiety
✓ Closure of community activities
& services lead to limited
opportunities for social
prescribing schemes
Outdoor activities
Online outreach
Remote connections
✓ Phone calls
✓ Letters & parcels
✓ Recorded community activities
Rebuilding connections
✓ Adaptability
✓ Flexibility
✓ Partnerships
✓ Agile & responsive
Additional references
• Garcia, I. Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD): core principles. In
Research Handbook on Community Development, edited by Phillips, Rhonda, Eric
Trevan, and Patsy Kraeger. 67-75. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.
• Kretzmann, J.P., and McKnight, J. (1993). Building Communities from the Inside
Out: A Path toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets. Evanston, Ill:
The Asset-Based Community Development Institute, Institute for Policy Research,
Northwestern University.
