#CommDev18 Community Development Society - 49th International Conference

The recent European migration crisis has turned into a complex, international pandemic, speaking to the heightened severity of migration worldwide. This roundtable therefore seeks to address this priority by bringing community development researchers and practitioners to the table to develop further understanding of how to strengthen communities of migrant populations.

This roundtable session will provide a venue for members from CDS, NACDEP, and IACD to engage in conversations that illuminate intersections of common interests in scholarship situated in both national/international contexts. This session will provide participants with opportunities for cross-pollination of ideas and practices in order to solidify partnerships.

The North Central Region Extension Community Development Program Leaders (representing twelve states) are exploring the possibility of adapting the HCI program for implementation in the North Central states having an interest in the focus and topics included in HCI. The roundtable session at CDS offers a unique and valuable opportunity to hear from a wide array of community development researchers and practitioners. Their input will help determine if there is an interest in making HCI available to more states and expanding its building block offerings. CDS members will be kept informed through Vanguard, emails, social media channels, etc. In addition, members will be kept informed of train-the-trainer HCI workshops if the response from participants is positive and they have interest in expanding the HCI program to other communities in the U.S.

Community resilience is a framework for understanding the capacity to absorb, mitigate, and transform shocks and stresses. Building and enhancing these capacities, accounting for local context, is essential to sustainable equitable development. This roundtable will review community resilience research and engage participants to provide input for connecting scholarship and practice.

This roundtable will generate insights about CDS as a community itself on the eve of its 50th anniversary in 2019. How can we use this opportunity to reflect on CDS’s role in our own professional lives, our field, and our world sorely in need of renaissance in the years ahead?

The Florida Thrives: Community of Practice is a community impact program focused on results as the basis for building capacity. During the interactive roundtable, we’ll position participants to view their organization’s work in a new, outcome-based lens and answer: 1) To whom does the success of your organization matter and why? 2) What does success actually look like?

Goal number 6 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is to "Ensure access to water and sanitation for all." While often viewed as a technical issue, the process of achieving water and sanitation involves extensive community development work. This paper aims to engage participants in a discussion of the key challenges, approaches, opportunities, and sharing of success stories in for achieving sustainable water and sanitation comparing domestic and international cases.