Step 2: Current Situation

Now that you’ve had a chance to imagine the future, let’s think about your community today (the current situation). We will do three activities to help us understand the current situation around literacy in your community.

1. Community map
2. Community Assets
3. Community Challenges

1. Community Map

A community map gives you a picture of some of the supports and resources that exist in your community. It can include things like:

• Groups, organizations, services & businesses
• People, their gifts, attitudes and beliefs
• Events and activities
• Culture and traditions
• The land and location of special places
• Pressures from the outside
• Hotspots or areas of big change