Community organizing and community building for health and welfare /
The third edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Healthand Welfare provides new and more established ways to approach community building and organizing, from collaborating with communities on assessment and issue selection to using the power of coalition building, media advocacy,...
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Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to community organizing and community building / Meredith Minkler
- Why organize? Problems and promise in the inner city Barack Obama
- Improving health through community organization and community building : perspectives from health education and social work / Meredith Minkler and Nina Wallerstein
- Contrasting organizing approaches : the "Alinsky Tradition" and Freirian organizing approaches / Marty Martinson and Celina Su
- Community building practice : an expanded conceptual framework / Cheryl L. Walter and Cheryl A. Hyde
- Community, community development, and the forming of authentic partnerships : some critical reflections / Ronald Labonte
- Ethical issues in community organizing and capacity building / Meredith Minkler, Cheri Pies, and Cheryl A. Hyde
- Building partnerships between local health departments and communities : case studies in capacity building and cultural humility / Galen Ellis and Sheryl Walton
- Community health assessment or healthy community assessment : whose community? Whose health? Whose assessment? / Trevor Hancock and Meredith Minkler
- Mapping community capacity / John L. McKnight and John P. Kretzmann
- Selecting and "cutting" the issue / Lee Staples
- Education, participation, and capacity building in community organizing with women of color / Lorraine M. Gutiérrez and Edith A. Lewis
- African American barbershops and beauty salons : an innovative approach to reducing health disparities through community building and health education / Laura Linnan, Stephen Thomas, Heather D'Angelo, and Yvonne Owens Ferguson
- Popular education, participatory research, and community organizing with immigrant restaurant workers in San Francisco's Chinatown : a case study / Charlotte Chang, Alicia L. Salvatore, Pam Tau Lee, Shaw San Liu, and Meredith Minkler
- Creating an online strategy to enhance effective community building and organizing / Nickie Bazell Satariano and Amanda Wong
- Using the arts and new media in community organizing and community building : an overview and case study from post-Katrina New Orleans / Marian McDonald, Caricia Catalani, and Meredith Minkler
- A coalition model for community action / Frances D. Butterfoss and Michelle C. Kegler
- Community organizing for obesity prevention in Humboldt Park, Chicago : the challenges and successes of coalition building across two organizing traditions / Adam B. Becker, Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, José E. López, and José Luis Rodríguez
- Participatory approaches to evaluating community organizing and coalition building / Chris M. Coombe
- Using community organizing and community building to influence public policy / Angela Glover Blackwell, Mildred Thompson, Nicholas Freudenberg, Jeanne Ayers, Doran Schrantz, and Meredith Minkler
- Organizing for health care reform : national and state-level efforts and perspectives / Jacquie Anderson, Michael Miller, and Andrew McGuire
- Media advocacy : a strategy for helping communities change policy / Lori Dorfman and Priscilla Gonzalez
- Appendixes. Principles of community building : a policy perspective / Angela Glover Blackwell and Raymond A. Colmenar ; Action-oriented community diagnosis procedure / Eugenia Eng and Lynn Blanchard ; Challenging ourselves : critical self-reflection on power and privilege / Cheryl A. Hyde ; A ladder of community participation in public health / Mary Anne Morgan and Jennifer Lifshay ; Coalition member assessment / Tom Wolff ; Community mapping and digital technology : tools for organizers / Josh Kirschenbaum and Jason Corburn ; Using force field and "SWOT" analysis as strategic tools in community organizing / Meredith Minkler and Chris Coombe ; A checklist for action / Mark S. Homan ; Criteria for creating triggers or codes for Freirian organizing / Nina Wallerstein ; Scale for measuring perceptions of control at the individual, organizational, neighborhood, and beyond-the-neighborhood levels / Barbara A. Israel, Amy J. Schulz, Edith A. Parker, and Adam B. Becker ; Policy bingo / Mary M. Lee, Rebecca Flournoy, Judith Bell, and Victor Rubin.