Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Intercultural Competence, Summative Assessment, Community Building
8 Dec 2017
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Chapter 9 community organizing and community building: membership (sense of identity and belonging) Mutual influence (community members have influence and are influenced by each other: shared needs and commitment to meeting them. Shared emotional connection (members share common history, experiences, mutual support) There has been an increasing need to organize communities due to advancements in electronics, communications, and increased mobility. Community organization originally described efforts to coordinate services for new immigrants and the poor. The following assumptions must be made when assisting communities with organizing: The process of community organizing and community building. Categories of community organization are planning and policy practice, community capacity development, and social advocacy. Planning and policy practice by using data, community/public health workers generate persuasive rationales that lead to proposing and enacting particular solutions. Community capacity development based on empowering those who are impacted by a problem w/ knowledge and skills to understand the problem and work cooperatively together to deal with it.
