While efforts should be structured to identify issues, problems, and service gaps, the community should not lose sight of identifying its natural strengths and opportunities. While barriers need to be identified, opportunities must also be uncovered. C. Communities should find ways to disseminate to a wider audience its good points, its value, and its success stories. Local media outlets, brochures, a community World Wide Web site are ways to get the word out to others. A healthy community connects people and resources.
All communities have assets, positive attributes, and identifiable resources.
For a community to thrive it needs to identify those resources and find ways to convey that information to both community members and the outside world. B. Another source of asset development or gaining resources occurs from partnerships. It is common in rural areas to think that we do not have enough resources in our town. Partnerships between different organizations and even different towns is one way to develop more resources. C. Common approaches to creating a connection between people and resources include developing a community resource guide.