Community Media/CCMW/Materials/Priorities

The assignment

 * 1) Brainstorm five community development priorities that could be addressed through learning programmes
 * 2) Consider any reasons why or specific focus areas

Red group

 * Crime and violence
 * Need for conflict resolution
 * Way to address the issue include popular theatre, talk shows, mentoring programmes


 * Teenage pregnancy, prostitution
 * Share real life stories


 * HIV/AIDS


 * Opportunities for young people


 * Environmental issues


 * Tourism livelihoods
 * Stem the harassment of tourists

Orange group

 * Rehabilitation and prison reform
 * Creating space for open dialogue
 * Getting stories from those who commit crimes
 * Create understanding of why crime persists
 * Allow the public to get a bird's eye view of what happens in prisons
 * Address the needs of the children of inmates


 * Young men at risk
 * Increased gang activity
 * Not doing well in school
 * Self-esteem issues: bleaching, lack of identity
 * The need to be pretty
 * Sexuality and the downlow game


 * Deadbeat dads
 * Getting men to live up to their responsibilities (women are carrying the "burden")
 * Women wanting men for the wrong reasons, e.g. the jock
 * Women getting pregnant to "improve self-esteem"


 * Continuing education
 * Poor academic achievement among many community members
 * Poor transportation: community members don't have access to education opportunities
 * Lack of local resource people
 * People need access to technical skills

Yellow group

 * Conflict resolution
 * Anger management
 * How to step back from conflict


 * Environmental concerns
 * Waste disposal
 * Pesticides
 * Global warming / cost of electricity
 * Oil drilling
 * Watershed management


 * Teenage pregnancy
 * Perpetuates the poverty cycle
 * Single parent family
 * Family practices, food and learning


 * Health: AIDS/HIV
 * In-school intervention
 * Treatment literacy: How to live with the virus
 * Adolescent sexual and reproductive life
 * Confidentiality
 * Health and responsible lifestyles
 * Stigma and discrimination


 * Family life
 * Fathers' responsibilities (gatekeepers)
 * Parenting intervention
 * Roles of family members
 * Instilling values
 * Gender issues
 * Crime and the impact of "absent" families

Blue group

 * Farming livelihoods
 * Promoting good farming practices through sharing success stories


 * HIV/AIDS education
 * Sharing content on good practices
 * Creating interactive spaces for exchange
 * Creating partnerships with groups that already have the content
 * Tap into other programmes that have influence on target groups


 * Supporting formal education
 * Virtual assembly halls: A means of effectively reaching students in a formal, post-secondary education setting and involving them in media programming in order to
 * disseminate inforamtion
 * engender solidarity
 * promote discipline and positive social practices
 * support learning


 * Parenting skills
 * Programmes should target both mothers and fathers (and other "parents")


 * Crime and Violence


 * Marginalisation of Youth
 * Amplify youth voices
 * Give them the chance to create programmes for themselves