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Chapter 5.


Community Organizing

Process in which community groups are helped to identify problem or change targets, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching their collective goals

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community capacity

community characteristics affecting its ability to identify, mobilize, and implement

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social capital

process and conditions among people and organizations that lead to their accomplishing a goal of mutual social benefit.

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empowerment

social action process for people to gain mastery of their lives and the lives of their community

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participation

community organizing should start where the people are and engage the community members as equals.

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Community organization assumptions 1-3

1. communities of people can develop the capacity to deal with their own problems.


2. people want to change and can change


3. people should participate in the making, adjusting, or controlling the major changes taking place within the community

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assumptions 4 and 5

4. changes in community living that are self imposed or self developed have a meaning and permanence that imposed changes do not.


5. "holistic approach" can successful address problems in which a "fragmented approach" cannot cope.

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assumptions 6-7

6. democracy requires cooperative participation and action in the affairs in the community, and people must learn the skills that make this possible.


7. Frequently, communities of people need help in organizing to deal with their needs, just as many people need help in coping with their individual problems.

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Rothman's Original Typology

locality development


social planning


social action

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typology renamed

planning and policy practices


community capacity development


social advocacy

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planning and policy practices

the heart is data, community and public health workers generate persuasive rationales that lead toward proposing and enacting particular solutions

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community capacity development

based on empowering those impacted by a problem with knowledge and skills to understand the problem and work cooperatively to deal with the problem.

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social advocacy

application of pressure, using confrontation on those who created the problem or stand as a barrier to the solution. (CONFLICT)

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grass-root



top-down

those who initiate community organizations and are part of the community



outside of the community

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gatekeeps and an example

controll formally and informally the "political climate" of the community


example: politicians, leaders of advocacy groups, business and education leaders, etc.

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task force

self contained group of doers that isn't on going but rather brought together due to a strong interest in an issuer a specific purpose

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coalition

formal alliance of organizations that come together to work for a common goal

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mapping community capacity

process of identifying community assets, not concerns or problems.

process of community organization/building

1. recognize the issue


2. gain entry in the community


3. organizing the people


4. assessing the community


5. determine the priorities and setting goals


6. arrive at a solution and selecting intervention strategies


7. implementing, evaluating, maintaining, and looping back

health education

combination of planned learning experiences that provide the opportunity to acquire knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to adopt and maintainmhealth behaviors

health promotion

any combination that supports the actions and conditions of conductive living

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program planning

A process by which an intervention is planned to help meet the needs of a priority population