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Resource Packs for the NOCN Community Development Programme

Community Development Training Resources – while stock lasts!

Last chance to buy in book format - at the special price of only £8.00 each or all three for £20.00 (inc p+p) (Previously sold for £50.00 each)

1. Understanding Community Development work

2. Community Development work skills

3. Group Work Skills - NOW SOLD OUT

To order use the order form or e mail admin@fcdl.org.uk quoting ‘CD SALE’ stating which books you require. For more info click here

Discounted prices of £15 each for numbers 5 and 8 (formerly £25) and £20 each for all the rest (formerly £50)

Buy two CDs, get a third Pack free.
FCDL members are also entitled to a 10% members' discount

Download an order form or contact admin@fcdl.org.uk

Seventeen resource packs have been produced by the Federation to complement the NOCN Community Development Work Programme. Each pack is designed to support the teaching of the module of the same name (or similar name), which can be built together to gain qualifications at levels 1, 2 and 3.

Each pack contains: Session Plans, Handouts, Exercises, Worksheets, Tutor prompt sheets and Reflective journal sheets for students to reflect on their work.

A pack represents three credits, which build to form a complete award. At each level there are three core modules which are mandatory for achieving the qualification. At levels 2 and 3 these can be mixed with other modules allowing students to specialise in the area of community development most relevant to themselves. See below for the list of packs. Please note: some topics can be delivered at several levels.

Each NOCN unit has a credit rating of three - equivalent to a notional 30 hours of learning. The packs are conveniently split into two hour slots of group based learning.

Further information about each pack can be downloaded by clicking on the titles below. Sample pages for packs 1 - 3 are also available to download.

1. Understanding community development work ISBN: 978-1-904111-03-0

Prices for Spring 2009:

Pack number Format and price
1, 2, 3 (SOLD OUT), 5 Printed pack, £25
8 CD, £25
4, 5, 6, 7, 9 - 11 CD, £50
NEW 12 - 18 CD only, £50

Don't forget the 10% discount to Federation members - join now.

 

2. Community development work skills ISBN: 978-1-904111-04-7
3. Group Work Skills ISBN: 978-1-904111-05-4 - NOW SOLD OUT
4. Involving people ISBN: 978-1-904111-06-1
5. Representing your Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual community ISBN: 978-1-904111-07-8
6. Monitoring and evaluation ISBN: 978-1-904111-08-5
7. Developing community organisations ISBN: 978-1-904111-09-2
Please note: the Evidence Matrix on pages viii and ix of pack 7 was incorrect in the original pack.
Click here for further information and amended pages.
8. Reflective community development work practice ISBN: 978-1-904111-10-8
9. Effective Partnership Working ISBN: 978-1-904111-11-5
10. Practice and Principles in Community Development Work ISBN: 978-1-904111-12-2
11. Social Justice ISBN: 978-1-904111-13-9
12. NEW Planning for community groups ISBN 978-1-904111-17-7
13. NEW Publicity skills for community organisations ISBN 978-1-904111-18-4
14. NEW Identifying needs in communities ISBN 978-1-904111-19-1
15. NEW Funding & resources for community groups ISBN 978-1-904111-20-7
17. NEW Community Development and Environmental Action ISBN 978-1-904111-16-0
18. NEW Sustainable Communities ISBN 978-1-904111-14-6

Feedback from trainers using these packs:
'The packs were used as a foundation, structure and refer point to developing a personalised course'
The activities 'enabled the participants to learn new concepts in four stages through doing, reflecting, theory and then planning and how to implement it in the future. It also encompassed people's different learning styles.'

Background
The Programme was developed out of an initial set of courses run by Salford Council for Voluntary Service, which were rewritten in order to map them to the revised National Occupational Standards for Community Development Work. The Federation, working with the co-operation of Salford CVS, has accredited the programme through South Yorkshire Open College Network.

The Federation has worked with the Open College Network to develop a National Community Development Award based on this programme. This is the first national community development award that uses the NOCN process. It adds to the growing number of qualifications and progression routes for community development workers, managers and activists. For further information on the national award, please contact the Federation or NNOCN: www.nocn.org.uk.

For updates on the NOCN qualifications, please also see our News page.

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