Community Organizing Flashcards
Community health can only be achieved
unless the community health professional
understands the
dynamics of organizing a
community
Among the most important skills what should also be possessed by a public health worker?
ability to plan a community health
promotion/disease prevention
program
Is Community organizing and community development are similar terms and also its meaning?
No.
They are similar terms that have different meanings.
“brings people together to combat shared problems and increase their say about decisions that affect their lives.
Community organizing
“occurs when people form their own organizations
provide long-term capacity to solve their problems.“
Community development
Difference between Community Organizing and Community Development?
Community Org-organizing a people from the community by any person
Community Dev- they form their own org
Seven assumptions for community
organization: (should remember)
- Communities of people can develop capacity to deal with their
own problems. - People want to change and can change.
- People should participate in the major changes taking place in their communities.
- Changes in community that are self-imposed or self-developed
have a meaning and permanence than imposed changes. - A ‘holistic approach’ can deal successfully with problems with
which a ‘fragmented approach’ cannot cope. - Democracy requires cooperative participation and action in the affairs of the community, and people must learn the skills to make things possible.
- Communities of people need help in organizing to deal with
their needs, just as many individuals require help in coping with
their individual problems.
Methods of Community organizing (3)
- Locality Planning
- Social Planning
- Social Action
broad self-help method in which local citizens develop new skills and become more self-sufficient
Locality Planning
Examples of Locality Planning
■ Basket weaving; DA (cooking) ; baking etc….
utilizes skilled volunteers in the community in a technical
process of problem solving
Social planning
Examples of Social Planning
■ Ex. Doctors, nurses, medtechs & OTHER VOLUNTEER
professional
technique that involves the redistribution of power and
resources to disadvantaged segments of the population
Social Action
Example of Social Action
.
■ Social concern ….ex. In cases of fire, calamit
The Process of Organizing a
Community: (A-G)
A. Recognition of problem.
B. Gaining entry into the community.
C. Organizing the people.
D. Identifying the specific problem.
E. Determining the priorities and setting goals.
F. Arriving at a solution and selecting intervention activities.
G. Do the final steps in the process.
Final steps in the process: (1-4)
- Implementation of the intervention activities.
- Evaluation of results to reveal the degree of success.
- Maintaining or sustaining the intervention long
enough to ensure success. - Looping back to an earlier stage of the plan, if
necessary.
Started in the 1979 Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion, and Disease Prevention
Health promotion/disease prevention program planning
When does Health promotion/disease prevention program
planning started
1979
What happened in 1979?
in 1979 in Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion, and Disease Prevention. The Health promotion/disease prevention program planning has started
What is the goal of Health Promotion and
Disease Prevention
Programming
Basic understanding of program planning must be
disseminate
Basic understanding of program
planning involves the understanding
that: (1-4)
- Health Education
- Health promotion/disease prevention
- Program Planning
- Community organization
is the “the continuum of learning which enables people, to voluntarily make decisions, modify behaviors, and change social conditions in ways that are health enhancing
Health Education
is “the aggregate (bits & pieces) of all purposeful activities
designed to improve personal and public health through a
combination of strategies
Health promotion/disease prevention
What are the examples of Health promotion/disease prevention?
EX…implementation of behavioral change strategies,
health education, health protection measures, risk factor
detection, health enhancement, and health maintenan
a process in which an intervention is planned to
help meet the needs of a specific group of people
Program Planning
is “intervention whereby individuals, groups, and
organizations engage in planned action to
influence social problem
Community Organization
It is concerned with the enrichment, development,
and/or change of social status of the community
Community Organization
Creating a program: Steps 1-5
- Assessing the needs of the target population
- Setting goals and objectives
- Developing an intervention
- Implementing the intervention
- Evaluating the results is comparing the program’s
outcome
is the
first task in creating a health promotion/disease
prevention program.
Assessing the needs of the target population
Steps in Assessing the needs of the target population
a. Step 1 is gathering data.
b. Step 2 is analyzing the data collected.
c. Step 3 is prioritizing the identified needs.
d. Step 4 is validating the need.
lays the foundation for
the program.
Setting goals and objectives
is designing the
activities that will help the target population meet
their objectives
Developing an intervention
is the actual putting
into practice of the activities that made up the
intervention
Implementing the intervention
is comparing the program’s
outcome with some standard of acceptability that
was noted in the goals and objectives.
. Evaluating the results
Evaluating the results is comparing the program’s
outcome with some standard of acceptability that
was noted in the _____ and ______
goals and objectives.
Step in evaluation(1-5)
a. Planning the evaluation
b. Collecting the data
c. Analyzing the data
d. Reporting results
e. Applying the results
