Community Handbook

We are happy to present to you this handbook of community transformation topics to be used by social workers engaged in serving the communities of North India. This book has come out of a felt need by many social workers, and community health education workers to have a simple guidebook which can be used for training a community on the included topics.

The contents have been organized into a series of 5 categories:

1.) Health,

2.) Community,

3.) Moral Issues,

4.) Family and

5.) Lifestyle Issues.

The information given is very basic and we have chosen a one-page format for initial training. We hope to soon produce Volumes 2, 3, and 4. These volumes will give more information and descriptive details about each of the topics and will also add additional topics.

The goal is to help every member of a community to be aware of simple principles relating to the topics listed and improve the quality of their lives. The purpose of this book is not to give all of the details of each topic but rather our attempt is to help community workers to engage local communities in dialogue and enable them to discuss the topics and find solutions to the listed issues. The topics are not arranged in any order of priority because each community will have different needs and priorities based on their locations.