MidTerm 1

Question 1

What are the three primary models of community organization?

Answer 1

social action
social planning
community development

Question 2

Define community development

Answer 2

a process through which a variety of community residents, groups, businesses, churches, and organizations come together to reach a consensus about community problems and work cooperatively to improve the community.

Question 3

what’s the primary method use for community development?

Answer 3

cooperation and consensus among group members with the emphasis of bringing people together to work cooperatively and strengthening relationships among indv or b/w invd and community institutions rather than specific outcomes.

Question 4

What are community development models use for?

Answer 4

to improve economic conditions in community, increase the number of jobs or businesses in a geographic area or improve community infrastructure, the supply of affordable housing, or services.

Question 5

what does social action model involve

Answer 5

putting pressure on indv or gps by lobbying gov. officials, running for political office, or engaging in social protest.

Question 6

What is social action model use for?

Answer 6

it is used for having a law, policy, practice, or program adopted or stopped. Often it is necessary to form coalitions or to cooperate with people who may have different views about the issue such as social movements.

Question 7

What is social planning

Answer 7

in social planning, planners apply expert knowledge to resolve social problems. They id the problem, conduct an assessment, dvlp a prog. plan or social policy, facilitate the implementation of the plan, and evaluate the outcome. (usually employed by gov. agencies or nonprofits)

Question 8

What are the Five Essential Skills for Facilitating Group Consensus (P.13)

Answer 8

1. understanding of personal motivation
2. facilitating the dvlp of leadership skills among gp members
3. managing conflict
4. negotiation
5. good communication skills.

Question 9

What are the Three Skills for Community Practice (P. 14, Rothman and Zald, 2008)

Answer 9

1. facilitation of the process of organizing
2. using influence
3. using interpersonal skills for interacting with people

Question 10

What are the skills needed for facilitating the process?

Answer 10

informing people, staffing committees, encouraging participation in decision-making, and developing and training new leaders

Question 11

What does influencing skills include?

Answer 11

advocating, bargaining, mediating, influencing powerful decision-makers, and forming coalitions with members of a variety of groups.

Question 12

What are the skills for interpersonal interaction?

Answer 12

personal use of self (competent practice that incorporates ethics and values), interviewing people to collect information and to persuade them about issues and facilitating gps.

Question 13

What are the Best Practices for Community Engagement (P. 28)

Answer 13

convey acceptance, respect, and humility. Communicate effectively, often across demographic boundaries such as race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, or social class and differences in experiences and perspectives.

find out as much as possible about the community by consulting newspaper accounts, reports, local web pages or blogs, existing stats.
attend events, contact organizations, patronize businesses, or find other alternative methods for interacting w/members of the community.

map out some of the spatial characteristics

watch, listen, and if the community that you are studying is a geographic space, walking around, smiling and greeting people that you meet.
observing people, listening to conversations, asking ?s
finding formal and informal gps of people in the community and id community leaders or people who can influence what happens in a community such as gatekeepers.

Question 14

In order to gain access to a potential interviewee, the organizers must establish Legitimacy (P. 31). What is Legitimacy?

Answer 14

someone who represents an organization or group and who can be trusted.

Question 15

How can an organizer be trusted or gain legitimacy?

Answer 15

• By indicating the indv or indvs that might have referred the organizer to the person interviewed and identifying other people who have agreed to participate in the event or action.
• provide people w/info about the organization that employs the organizer and its past activities and successes
• share personal info w/ the person interviewed in order to establish a bond
• be genuine, honest and truly exited or passionate about the cause or issue

Question 16

Recruiting Volunteers and Participants

Answer 16

*conduct one-on-one interviews
*plan an event or participate in an activity sponsored by another community-based organization such as a street fair, pot-luck, formal banquet, or a cultural celebration.
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