blog writing #community capacity

As a geographic unit of aggregation, the community can range from small (a family's apartment building, for example) to large (the county in which the apartment building is located). As such, community capacity may need to be tapped in varying amounts throughout a family's lifetime (Bowen et al., 2000). For instance, parents with children in the early and middle adolescent years could find that a neighborhood with high community capacity can be a particularly valuable asset - a developmental period when children spend fewer hours at home and more of their time in the community.