Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsFeministsCommunity activistsGenderFemaleHistoryJocelyn Aytan was a founder of Selby Community House in 1975 and an active member of the community development movement of which it was part. The Selby Community House was the first community house to be set up in the then Shire of Sherbrooke in the Dandenong Ranges. In 1973 the Federal Labor Government created the Australian Assistance Plan for community development, and its first offices were in the region of outer eastern Melbourne including Sherbrooke. Its aim was to empower local people by assisting them to set up their own needs-based programs for the development of their communities. Jocelyn became involved with the local needs survey of the Children of the Region Task Group, and subsequently with the childcare initiatives which where established at the Selby Community House. She was active in establishing other community houses in Sherbrooke, at Kallista and Coonara. She has participated in a wide range of community development projects in the area over thirty years, and has become the historian of the Selby Community House and its community.
