Strengthening our communities and the roles of individuals within our communities helps to develop our communities, prevent disease and reduces the effects of climate change, creates jobs and expand resources for promoting social justice. Our communities need to be strengthening to increase our social networks, social support, social capital, and the capacity to identify and solve our own problems.
Individuals are essential to our community life and, when engaged and powered collectively, can be the engines of community transformation and social change. Therefore, our focus is not on individualism, but rather on engaged individuals who recognize the importance of their communities.