👋 I'm feeling hopeful for the future of community these days as I see change and interest for what community is coming from many different angles. The more I research, the more I see that more is coming together.
It's almost at a point where there is too much to share and the challenge is piecing it all together. But as I like to say, I'll keep going and keep sharing as best as I can.
There's an alternative to the social broligarchy emerging | Rosieland
When all feels lost, we can find hope in the technological efforts that are emerging. It also helps to have faith in the fact that our day to day choices can make a difference.
To confront the oligarchy, we need to build power at the community level
The answer, imho, is always community. 😍
Many of us have regarded all these trends and difficulties as inherent to a system that centralizes power, and have sought more decentralized alternatives that turn power away from corporations and nation-states and back to communities and places.
Nobody cares | Grant Slatton
If there is one community strategy I believe in, it is for the people who do the work to care. One reason that we don't have enough community is that people simply don't care.
The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic | Asterisk Mag
There's not a week that goes by that I don't read yet another article on the loneliness epidemic. It was great to read a differing perspective.
...we can provisionally conclude that, over the last half-century or more, friends have remained roughly constant, probably even expanding their roles in Americans’ lives.
A Free-Transit Prescription for Healthier Communities | Reasons to be cheerful
The connection between transportation and health may not be obvious. But how people get around communities is interconnected with physical and mental wellbeing.
We must create community-based institutions and economies that move beyond the madness of what Mumford called the megamachine, with its relentless drive to accumulate power for power’s sake. We must build power for purpose, to serve the needs of human and natural communities.
Social prescribers help build connections in community to improve wellbeing | NHS Wales
Social prescribing is here and it's a growing trend and it is now a role in this instance the roles are labelled as 'social prescribing coordinators'.
Also, interestingly, it seems like a core foundation of being able to support people is obviously working with people, but the key to it is the social prescribers having access to a database of what is available. No community forum to be found here. 😜
The social prescribing service has access to all of the databases and information for services that are available.
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