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Connecting To Your Community

We recognize the importance of friendship and community building and have created a series of worksheets that can help people find ways to increase connections in their communities and create opportunities to development relationships with community members. Click the links below to view:


Ideas for relationship and community building:

  1. 1) How to pursue friendship and community building! (This is a MUST! A great How-To manual)


Forms that will help you do it:

  1. 1) Relationship Map
  2. 2) Look at relationships that can be further developed
  3. 3) Places a person goes now and enjoys
  4. 4) Explore a person's neighborhood
  5. 5) Create a personal profile based on what works and doesn't for a person- Plan for success!
  6. 6) Connect through a person's interests
  7. 7)Everybody has interests!
  8. 8) Where do people go who have similar interests?
  9. 9) Matching interests to community places
  10. 10) Everybody has gifts!
  11. 11) Who would appreciate a person's gifts. Create social value by sharing a person's gifts with others!
  12. 12) Ideas for spreading kindness!


Other Helpful Reading:

  1. 1) Story of how 1 support team helped a man go from cookies to friendship.
  2. 2) A Poem about truly listening.
  3. 3) John O'Brien's 5 accomplishments that provide a framework for assessing our ideals about the future.
  4. 4) Tips for people to be community builders
  5. 5) Resources for community & friendship development