Community Organizing and Community Building for Health

by Minkler, Meredith

• ISBN13: 9780813524368
• ISBN10: 0813524369
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

"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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
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	393