Plan Community Development Initiative for Refugee Women with Mental Health Issues

Background Assignments and Objectives

Background Assignments allow students to demonstrate they have developed the skills and acquired the knowledge expressed by the class learning outcomes. The assignment is a hands-on opportunity to work with the Declarations and Conventions on Human Rights as well as apply the skills for community development developed during the semester. 1. select a community and a community issue with which you would like to work. The objective is that as a group you will plan a community development initiative to address the issue from a grassroots perspective. (Community is refugee women having mental health issues. Issues: their mental health and language barrier during seeking health services) 2. Based on the John Humphrey Centre Advocacy Framework, each member of the group is going to become the leader of one field of action: documentation, organization, education and speaking up. (Work on documentation part only) 3. Each leader is going to plan all the details of his/her own field of action 4. Each individual plan must be clearly linked to the group plan 5. what is the main change they want to create with their community development plan. 6. Each member of the group will present their own field of action, their objectives, and 4 main activities. They should clearly present how is your field of action connected to the main objective 7. Identify the risks that you might be running with this plan. Marking guide for the individual work Leadership role • The objectives of the individual part are clearly connected to the main objective of the group work • At least four activities are planned in the leadership field Engaging presentation  • The presentation is clear • The presentation keeps the public engaged • Utilizes correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, sentence structure