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Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare

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ISBN-10: 0813553008

ISBN-13: 9780813553009

Edition: 3rd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Meredith Minkler

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The third edition ofCommunity Organizing and Community Building for Healthand Welfareprovides 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, and social media to enhance the effectiveness of such work.With a strong emphasis on cultural relevance and humility, this collection offers a wealth of case studies in areas ranging from childhood obesity to immigrant worker rights to health care reform. A “tool kit” of appendixes includes guidelines for assessing coalition effectiveness, exercises for critical reflection on our own power and…    
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Book details

List price: $49.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 7/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.090

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building
Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City
Contextual Frameworks and Approaches
Improving Health through Community Organization and Community Building: Perspectives from Health Education and Social Work
Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The "Alinsky Tradition� and Freirian Organizing Approaches
Community Building Practice: An Expanded Conceptual Framework
Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges
Community, Community Development, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Some Critical Reflections
Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building
Building Partnerships between Local Health Departments and Communities: Case Studies in Capacity Building and Cultural Humility
Community Assessment and Issue Selection
Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment?
Mapping Community Capacity
Selecting and "Cutting" the Issue
Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures
Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color
African American Barbershops and Beauty Salons: An Innovative Approach to Reducing Health Disparities through Community Building and Health Education
Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco's Chinatown: A Case Study
Using the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building
Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing
Using the Arts and New Media in Community Organizing and Community Building: An Overview and Case Study from Post-Katrina New Orleans
Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts
A Coalition Model for Community Action
Community Organizing for Obesity Prevention in Humboldt Park, Chicago: The Challenges and Successes of Coalition Building across Two Organizing Traditions
Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Organizing and Coalition Building
Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy
Using Community Organizing and Community Building to Influence Public Policy
Organizing for Health Care Reform: National and State-Level Efforts and Perspectives
Media Advocacy: A Strategy for Helping Communities Change Policy
Appendixes
Principles of Community Building: A Policy Perspective
Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure
Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege
A Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health
Coalition Member Assessment
Community Mapping and Digital Technology: Tools for Organizers
Using Force Field and "SWOT" Analysis as Strategic Tools in Community Organizing
A Checklist for Action
Criteria for Creating Triggers or Codes for Freirian Organizing
Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels
Policy Bingo
About the Contributors
Index