Guernsey County's Community Development Home page

Community Development uses education as a tool to help people identify assets, capacities, needs, resources, and solutions; to improve the quality of community/neighborhood life; to encourage internal and external collaborations and partnerships; to identify the uniqueness of individuals and communities/neighborhoods; to facilitate applied and theoretical dimensions of community development; to develop viable communities through the wise use of natural, economic, social, and human resources; to provide non-biased, research-based information and knowledge as a basis for decisions.