HLTH 331 EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE
7 Assumptions of Community Organizing - Answer -1.Community capacity
2.Desire for change, inspires change
3.Community members should control community change
4.Imposed changes are less permanent
5.Holistic problem-solving is best
6.Cooperative participation includes action
7.Communities need organizing assistance
Community organizing - Answer -what it looks like/is- class video
desire for change, inspires change - Answer -that people want and will change it
Community members should control community change - Answer -important because
community health is based on community based participatory aspects - the change
came from within in the video - works best within grass root- working together as a
community
Imposed changes are less permanent - Answer -it will not be as lasting - changes are
going to persist if they come from within the community - u want it to be from within
holistic problem solving is best - Answer -most problems have multiple components,
you have to think of things holistically - you have to do this then this - the video focused
on air quality - second hand smoke
cooperative participation includes action - Answer -you need all different types of
approaches and communities to work together
communities need organizing assistance - Answer -communities may need help - they
may not recognize the widespread issues - communities need to be educated about
what the concern is
methods of community organizing - Answer --No one method to organizing as a
community
-Starts when people see there's a problem or there's a need not being met
-Three components in slide show above
-Planning and policy practice - using data to proceed, gather information to solve the
problem
-Community capacity development - empowering those impacted by the problem with
knowledge and skills to understand the problem and work together to address the
problem - ex; housing problems in cstat - food insecurity in the city
-Social advocacy- used to address the problem through pressure for those who created
the problem or stand as the barrier to the solution of the problem, conflict is inevitable
, Community organizing method chart - Answer -ch 5 slide 13
recognizing the issue - Answer --Initial organizer
-Recognizes that a problem exists and decides to do something about it
-Gets things started
-Can be from within or outside of the community
-Grassroots, citizen-initiated, bottom-up
-Top-down, outside-in
-important to recognize the issue - can be in or outside the community best to get help
from inside the community-
-Grassroots, citizen, bottom up - people in the community bring it up
-Top down outside in- someone in leadership- city hall, government
gaining entry - Answer --Organizers need:
-Cultural sensitivity, cultural competence, cultural humility
-Organizers need to know:
-Who is causing problem and why; how problem has been addressed in past; who
supports and opposes idea of addressing problem; who could provide more insight
Gatekeepers
-Communities have different ways to get entry
-You have to do ur research before you connect and speak to educate or make a
difference you need to know how to do it
-Who supports you and who is against it
-Gate keepers- sometimes people with money or poltical power- they can stop it on their
own
organizing people - Answer --executive participants- core community members that
want to see change
-Leadership identification- all the different parts of a community- college, elders,
families, professors
-Recruitment - those who are affected by it, volunteers, making sure you train the
volunteers on what they're doing
-Task force- temporary group of people brought together to do work together - people
who represents the various groups
-Coalition- formal alliance that comes together to work for a common goal
-Smoking video had a coalition- people speaking represented specific communities,
variety of people
Texas Standard Article EC link - Answer -https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/east-
texas-cutoff-trinity-river-land-dispute/
Texas Standarf Article over view - Answer --Point of the video- it displays community
organizing
7 Assumptions of Community Organizing - Answer -1.Community capacity
2.Desire for change, inspires change
3.Community members should control community change
4.Imposed changes are less permanent
5.Holistic problem-solving is best
6.Cooperative participation includes action
7.Communities need organizing assistance
Community organizing - Answer -what it looks like/is- class video
desire for change, inspires change - Answer -that people want and will change it
Community members should control community change - Answer -important because
community health is based on community based participatory aspects - the change
came from within in the video - works best within grass root- working together as a
community
Imposed changes are less permanent - Answer -it will not be as lasting - changes are
going to persist if they come from within the community - u want it to be from within
holistic problem solving is best - Answer -most problems have multiple components,
you have to think of things holistically - you have to do this then this - the video focused
on air quality - second hand smoke
cooperative participation includes action - Answer -you need all different types of
approaches and communities to work together
communities need organizing assistance - Answer -communities may need help - they
may not recognize the widespread issues - communities need to be educated about
what the concern is
methods of community organizing - Answer --No one method to organizing as a
community
-Starts when people see there's a problem or there's a need not being met
-Three components in slide show above
-Planning and policy practice - using data to proceed, gather information to solve the
problem
-Community capacity development - empowering those impacted by the problem with
knowledge and skills to understand the problem and work together to address the
problem - ex; housing problems in cstat - food insecurity in the city
-Social advocacy- used to address the problem through pressure for those who created
the problem or stand as the barrier to the solution of the problem, conflict is inevitable
, Community organizing method chart - Answer -ch 5 slide 13
recognizing the issue - Answer --Initial organizer
-Recognizes that a problem exists and decides to do something about it
-Gets things started
-Can be from within or outside of the community
-Grassroots, citizen-initiated, bottom-up
-Top-down, outside-in
-important to recognize the issue - can be in or outside the community best to get help
from inside the community-
-Grassroots, citizen, bottom up - people in the community bring it up
-Top down outside in- someone in leadership- city hall, government
gaining entry - Answer --Organizers need:
-Cultural sensitivity, cultural competence, cultural humility
-Organizers need to know:
-Who is causing problem and why; how problem has been addressed in past; who
supports and opposes idea of addressing problem; who could provide more insight
Gatekeepers
-Communities have different ways to get entry
-You have to do ur research before you connect and speak to educate or make a
difference you need to know how to do it
-Who supports you and who is against it
-Gate keepers- sometimes people with money or poltical power- they can stop it on their
own
organizing people - Answer --executive participants- core community members that
want to see change
-Leadership identification- all the different parts of a community- college, elders,
families, professors
-Recruitment - those who are affected by it, volunteers, making sure you train the
volunteers on what they're doing
-Task force- temporary group of people brought together to do work together - people
who represents the various groups
-Coalition- formal alliance that comes together to work for a common goal
-Smoking video had a coalition- people speaking represented specific communities,
variety of people
Texas Standard Article EC link - Answer -https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/east-
texas-cutoff-trinity-river-land-dispute/
Texas Standarf Article over view - Answer --Point of the video- it displays community
organizing
