Community Organizing and Community Building

"An important contribution to expanding the community organizing knowledge and skills base of students and practitioners in public health, health education, social work, and related disciplines". -- Dr. Nicholas Freudenberg, Professor of Community Health Education, Hunter College, CUNY

Acknowledgments

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Part I Introduction

3

(27)

Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview

3

(17)

MEREDITH MINKLER

Chapter 2 Two Tools for Well-Being: Health Systems and Communities

20

(10)

JOHN L. McKNIGHT

Part II Contextual Frameworks and Models

30

(58)

Chapter 3 Improving Health through Community Organization and Community Building: A Health Education Perspective

30

(23)

MEREDITH MINKLER

NINA WALLERSTEIN

Chapter 4 Social Action Community Organization: Proliferation, Persistence, Roots, and Prospects

53

(15)

ROBERT FISHER

Chapter 5 Community Building Practice: A Conceptual Framework

68

(20)

CHERYL L. WALTER

Part III The Professional's Role in Organization and Empowerment for Health: Values, Assumptions, and Ethical Dilemmas

88

(51)

Chapter 6 Community, Community Development, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Some Critical Reflections

88

(15)

RONALD LABONTE

Chapter 7 Social Change Professionals and Grassroots Organizing: Functions and Dilemmas

103

(17)

MARC PILISUK

JOANN McALLISTER

JACK ROTHMAN

Chapter 8 Ethical Issues in Community Organization and Community Participation

120

(19)

MEREDITH MINKLER

CHERI PIES

Part IV Community Assessment

139

(36)

Chapter 9 Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment?

139

(18)

TREVOR HANCOCK

MEREDITH MINKLER

Chapter 10 Mapping Community Capacity

157

(18)

JOHN L. McKNIGHT

JOHN P. KRETZMANN

Part V Issue Selection and the Creating of Critical Consciousness

175

(41)

Chapter 11 Selecting and "Cutting" the Issue

175

(20)

LEE STAPLES

Chapter 12 Freirian Praxis in Health Education and Community Organizing: A Case Study of an Adolescent Prevention Program

195

(21)

NINA WALLERSTEIN

VICTORIA SANCHEZ-MERKI

LILY DOW

Part VI Community Organizing and Community Building Within and Across Diverse Groups

216

(45)

Chapter 13 Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color

216

(14)

LORRAINE M. GUTIERREZ

EDITH A. LEWIS

Chapter 14 Community Organizing and Community Building among Gay and Bisexual Men: The STOP AIDS Project

230

(14)

DAN WOHLFEILER

Chapter 15 Community Organizing among the Elderly Poor in San Francisco's Tenderloin District

244

(17)

MEREDITH MINKLER

Part VII Building and Maintaining Effective Coalitions

261

(30)

Chapter 16 Understanding Coalitions and How They Operate: An "Open Systems" Organizational Framework

261

(17)

ABRAHAM WANDERSMAN

ROBERT M. GOODMAN

FRANCES D. BUTTERFOSS

Chapter 17 Coaltion Building to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Case Study from New York City

278

(13)

DANIEL KASS

NICHOLAS FREUDENBERG

Part VIII Measuring Community Empowerment

291

(34)

Chapter 18 Using Empowerment Evaluation in Community Organizing and Community-based Health Initiatives

291

(17)

CHRIS M. COOMBE

Chapter 19 Community Building through Empowering Evaluation: A Case Study of HIV Prevention Community Planning

308

(17)

KATHLEEN M. ROE

CINDY BERENSTEIN

CHRISTINA GOETTE

KEVIN ROE

Part IX New Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building into the Twenty-first Century

325

(28)

Chapter 20 Online Computer Networks: Potential and Challenges for Community Organizing and Community Building Now and in the Future

325

(14)

COURTNEY UHLER CART

Chapter 21 Media Advocacy: A Strategy for Empowering people and Communities

339

(14)

LAWRENCE WALLACK

Appendixes

353

(32)

1 Action-oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure

353

(4)

EUGENIA ENG

LYNN BLANCHARD

2 An Associational Map

357

(2)

JOHN L. McKNIGHT

3 Coalition Checklist

359

(7)

CHERIE R. BROWN

4 Money and Coalitions: Delights and Dilemmas

366

(4)

TOM WOLFF

5 How to Build Effective Multicultural Coalitions/Inclusivity Checklist

370

(2)

BETH ROSENTHAL

6 The Six "R's" of Participation

372

(2)

GILLIAN KAYE

7 Lessons from Geese

374

(2)

ANGELES ARRIEN

8 Leadership Teams

376

(2)

MIKE MILLER

9 Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Individual, Organizational, and Community Control

378

(3)

BARBARA ISRAEL

BARRY CHECKOWAY

AMY SCHULZ

MARC ZIMMERMAN

10 Ten Principles for Effective Advocacy Campaigns

381

(2)

HERBERT CHAO GUNTHER

11 Ten Commandments of Community-based Research

383

(2)

LELAND BROWN

12 About the Contributors

385

(8)

13 Subject Index

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