Community Development and History

As a Community Support Worker and Management Trainee, you will be helping deliver a range of programs and services that have been designed based on the input of Inuit community members including Elders, adults and youth, to ultimately improve the health and economic status of Inuit.

Many Inuit representative organizations also play a very important role in supporting community development by conducting statistical research, analysis, lobbying for funding, or delivering programs and services directly to ensure that funds reach into communities through hamlets or community groups, and bring forward both Inuit approaches as well as blending evidence-based research or best practices on a range of topics.

In this course you will be introduced to the foundational concepts of policy development and the types of research that supports the work of Inuit in local, regional, national or international jurisdictions.

This course will review:

Some basics about what community-driven development is as a field of study and best practice
Some of the key terms used in the field of community development
The role of statistics and other information to form a picture of Inuit communities and trends
The key historical timeline of socio-economic and political impacts on Inuit in Nunavut
The building blocks to community engagement to support changing behaviour
Key program design and delivery tools such as Results-based Management Frameworks, to understand the connection of your work to the organization's programs and services