From the Nurture Development website which you must explore at your leisure http://nurturedevelopment.org/
NURTURE DEVELOPMENT HAS DEVELOPED A UNIQUE APPROACH TO BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES THAT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY EMPLOYED THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND IN AFRICA.
“Cormac Russell and Nurture Development have made Asset Based Community Development come alive in Ireland as a basic community building strategy.”
John McKnight, ABCD Institute
12 DOMAINS
There are at least 12 domains that are uniquely within the competencies of people and by implication, cannot happen without People Powered Change.
Our well-being is decisively more determined by our community assets than by any other health and well being determinants. Tragically community building hardly features as a priority in the current sickness model. And so, for example, older people are dying of loneliness in a sea of neighbourliness that does not know how to express itself.While it is true to say we are creeping towards a change in focus in this regard, it is also economically and ethically a pivotal time where the need to accelerate this portion of the public health agenda and to elevate the status and the function of ‘connected communities’ as agents of health production, has become all at once both critical and possible.
Everyone’s health and well being depends on this fundamental shift; this shift depends on everyone choosing to co-create a shared health seeking future. The same can be said for raising connected children, caring for our environment, sustaining our local economies, and promoting more inclusive societies.
Health and Wellbeing
Our health and wellbeing is mainly determined by the extent to which we are positively connected to each other, our environment and local economic opportunities.
Safety and Security
Increased police presence does not lead to enhanced safety and security in the same way that a connected community can.
Caring for the Environment
Imagine what is possible if people become more intentional and collective about their decisions around transport, heating and lighting their homes and how they manage their waste.
Nurturing the Local Economy
Most enterprises start small and local, in garden sheds, attics and at the kitchen table and in return they become the heart blood of local economies and one of the most reliable sources of employment for many communities.
Mindful Food consumption and Production
Local food chains enhance outcomes in the areas of health, environment and local economic well being.
Raising Powerful Connected Children
Children need to believe in their families and community. Children do not grow powerful in institutions; their power grows the closer they are to the centre of family and community life.
Ageing Well in Place/Locale
The type of care required to age well across the life course is the kind that sees both the gifts and needs of older people, in that order . This kind of care is only located among communities who have a central place for older people.
Building Communities
Communities grow from inside out, evolving from the place where ‘I’ live, to the community where ‘we’ grow. They can only grow through the deepening of human relationships.
Civic Action for Deeper Democracy & Just Society
Civic action for social, environmental and economic justice provides the rudder for keeping governments honest and on track, democracy meaningful, and people engaged in civic life.
Respond to Natural Disaster/Climate Control
No where is people power more apparent than in the face of natural disasters and the consequences of climate change; ashuman beings, when pu t to the pin of our collar we dig deep, pull together (self organise), and respond by building community.
Lifelong Learning and Sharing Wisdom
Knowledge and wisdom are hatched in the nest of everyday life a nd more particularly in associational life, not in educational, commercial or professional institutions.
Changing the World
"Change doesn’t happen because of how we invest our money . Change happens because of how we invest our human energy, and it always has since we came down from the trees." Daniel Taylor–Future Generations
