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Assets
and Skills Inventory
Learning about all aspects of the community you seek to improve
is crucial in designing responsive and relevant programs that
meet the needs of the people within the community and build on
their strengths and resources. An Individual Assets and Skills
Inventory (link to Individual Assets and Skills Inventory) can
be one of the first steps in this process.
- Assets include positive strengths,
qualities, benefits, commodities and character
- Skills include an individual’s
gifts gained through experience, education and/or knowledge
An Individual Assets and Skills Inventory allows you to gather
information about the existing resources within the community,
specifically its residents. By revealing the skills, talents, gift
possessed by the residents, an Asset and Skills inventory helps
determine areas and ways these residents can contribute to neighboring
efforts. Such inventories also reveal the gaps in skills and assets
within the community and thus reveal opportunities and specific
programming needs. Assets and Skills Inventory is a very people
focused process, the goal of which is not just to gather information,
but also to build relationships with and empower residents.
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