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32 Cards in this Set
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Community Factors that Affect Health |
-Counseling & Education (smallest impact) -Clinical Interventions -Long-lasting Protective Interventions -Changing the Context (to make individuals' default decisions healthy) -Socioeconomic Factors (largest impact) |
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Community Community Definition (4) - Place |
Functional spatial units meeting basic needs for sustenance |
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Community Community Definition (4) - Interest |
Units of patterned social interaction |
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Community Community Definition (4) - Identity |
Symbolic units of collective identity |
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Community Community Definition (4) - Interest #2 |
Political change units |
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Community Four Elements of Community |
-Membership -Influence -Integration and fulfillment of needs -Shared emotional Connection |
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Community Community Organizing |
The process by which community groups are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies to reach goals they have set collectively. |
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Community Community Empowerment |
An enabling process through which individuals or communities take control over their lives and environments. |
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Community Community Graph |
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Community Community Organization & Building: Empowerment |
Social action process for people to gain mastery over their lives and the lives of their communities |
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Community Community Organization & Building: Critical Consciousness |
A consciousness based on reflection and action in making a change |
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Community Community Organization & Building: Community Capacity |
Community characteristics affecting its ability to identify, mobilize, and address problems |
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Community Community Organization & Building: Social Capital |
The sum of the actual and potential resources embedded within, available through, and derived from the network of relationships possessed by an individual or social unitt |
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Community Community Organization & Building: Issue Selection |
Identifying WINNABLE and SPECIFIC targets of change that UNIFY and BUILD COMMUNITY STRENGTH -involve people in a meaningful way -affect many people -part of a larger plan |
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Community Community Organization & Building: Participation and Relevance |
"Start where the people are" and engage community members as equals |
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Community Steps to Involve the Community (4) |
1) Identify a Leadership Team 2) Develop a common Vision 3) Develop a Strategy 4) Implement the Plan and Evaluate the Results |
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Community Identify a Leadership Team |
Include as many and diverse groups within the community as possible; partnerships are important |
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Community Purpose of Partnerships |
-Meet goals you cannot meet alone -Broaden/deepen reach -Supplement skills or fill gaps -Position/public relations reasons |
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Community Independent to Dependent Continuum |
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Community Develop a Common Vision |
The ideal conditions for your community; that is, how things would look if the issue important to you were completely and perfectly addressed; it should be small enough to fit on a t-shirt |
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Community Develop a Strategy |
How are you going to get things done? -Gives overall direction -Fits resources and opportunities -Minimizes resistance and barriers -Reaches those affected -Makes a difference |
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Community Implement the Plan |
-Organizational Structure -Key Staff and Volunteers -Training and technical assistance -Adapting community interventions with Evidence-Based Interventions |
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Community Evaluate the Results |
Can be difficult, as most people lack evaluation skills or the measurable outcomes are well-hidden |
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Community Evaluate the Results : Attribution of Results |
So many things happen within a community intervention that it is difficult to attribute a specific cause-and-effect |
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Community Evaluate the Results : Contribution of Results |
With community interventions, sometimes it is easier to show that a part of the intervention helped contribute better change, whether or not it actually did |
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Community Evaluate and Adapt Partnerships |
-Monitor the status of partnerships regularly -Adapt when partnerships don't work -Reinvigorate partnerships if needed -end partnerships if you must |
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Community Change Strategies: Empowerment |
Community members assume greater power, or expand their power from within, to create desired changes |
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Community Change Strategies: Community Capacity |
Community members participate actively in community life, gaining leadership skills, social networks, and access to power; you try to get the community to make their own changes |
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Community Change Strategies: Participation |
Community members develop leadership skills knowledge, and resources through their involvement |
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Community Change Strategies: Relevance |
Community members create their own agenda based on felt needs, shared power, and awareness of resources |
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Community Change Strategies: Issue Selection |
Community members participate in identifying issues; targets are chosen as part of a larger strategy |
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Community Change Strategies: Critical Consciousness |
Community members discuss the root causes of problems and plan actions to address them; community members are actively involved in problem solving |
