North Shore Community and Social Services embraces community development and endeavors to adopt community development principles in all its projects.

A common definition of community development is a model of working, within self-defined communities of interest, which assists people to:

• Identify issues and problems they experience collectively
• Decide upon a programme of action to address these needs in accordance with their own cultural values
• Identify and secure the resources and skills necessary to implement the programme of action.
• Build on existing community networks to develop better support and community ownership of services.

If you would like to develop an idea using a community development model please contact us.