Pardo (1998): Identity Activism

Pardo (1998)- The interventions were Identity Activism, and the overall population was homogeneous, being Latina Catholic mothers. The role of the consumers was to address community concerns at school and within the neighborhood. They did through community organizing with the help of political activism. Ferguson (2007) The interventions were the Social Enterprise Intervention (SEI) that focuses on preventive intervention with outreach, gaining job skills, and links to other services. The role of the consumers was to receive services in vocational job training, health/mental health treatment, and other services.
Arizmendi and Ortiz (2004) The interventions used the promotora model, where the organizer recognizes the “assets of the community, its dignity and its quest for self-determination” (p. 28). The role of the consumers is to take full responsibility of the community outcomes and essentially do it for themselves.
Nembhard (2006) The interventions were Democratic Economic Revitalization, African American Cooperative Economic Development, and several others. The point was that larger populations may require more than one intervention. The role of the consumers was to use community based activities to help survivors of the …show more content…
Empowerment theory focuses on the ability of people to gain power and control over their lives (Long, p. 44). I thought the gender attitudes of the situation in the Catholic community from the Pardo article brought an interesting thought into the application of empowerment theory. In this case, gender roles were well defined by the culture and carried out by the nuns suggesting a man be the president of the mother’s guild and the priest selecting only women for the prison site demonstration (Pardo, p. 3). Although this is clearly a patriarchal community, it is still focusing on the perceived strengths of males and females and empowering them to stand in their own