Strengthening Community Action

Question 1

Steps in Community Development Process

Answer 1

Define the issue
Initiate the process
Plan community conversations
Talking, discovering, and connecting
Create an asset map
Mobilize the community
Take action
Plan and implement cycles

Question 2

Micro

Answer 2

Needs at the individual level
(individual): making decisions with frontline providers about own needs

Question 3

Meso

Answer 3

Operational level design
(community/organization: groups engaged at operational level in dinging health and human services

Question 4

Macro

Answer 4

Deliberative dialogue at provincial and federal jurisdictions
provincial/national health and health care policy): citizen engaged in dialogue to shape government

Question 5

Collaboration

Answer 5

Collaboration denotes a range of strategies for building relationships to address health and social issues
Flexible and iterative

umbrella term, used for a range of strategies for building relationships to address health and social issues

Question 6

Partnerships

Answer 6

Partnerships occur when the purpose of collaboration is to advance a shared vision of a need and the expected outcome is to develop and implement a joint agreement to address the problem and bring the vision into reality

• a type of collaboration that occurs when the purpose is to advance a shared vision of a need and the expected outcome is the development and implementation of a joint agreement to address the need and bring the shared vision into reality

Question 7

Collective impact

Answer 7

Collective impact occurs when organizations achieve their goal to remedy an identified social problem and develop a backbone organization to coordinate efforts

a state achieved when partnerships achieve their goal of directing their varied resources toward remedying an identified social problem and develop a backbone organization to coordinate efforts.

Question 8

Collaborative advantage

Answer 8

Something is achieved that could not have been achieved by any one individual, group, or organization working alone

Question 9

Collaborative inertia

Answer 9

A situation that arises when the apparent rate of work output from a collaboration is slowed considerably compared to what a casual observer might expect to be able to achieve

Question 10

extra-local relations

Answer 10

institutional influences exerted by the social, political, and economic systems among which the partnership is situated.

Question 11

domain

Answer 11

the area of interest that is the focus of partnership activities

Question 12

partner characteristics

Answer 12

factors that distinguish the partners. The distinctive characteristics each partner brings to the partnership will directly and indirectly influence its development

Question 13

partnership characteristics

Answer 13

the way in which a partnership is established between the individuals and organizations that participate

Question 14

communication

Answer 14

both formal and informal communication strategies will facilitate the determination of which strategies are appropriate for the partnership at a given time.

Question 15

partnership framework comprises five categories

Answer 15

Extralocal relations
Domain
Partner characteristics
Partnership characteristics
Communication

Question 16

Partnership Configuration

Answer 16

• configuration of categories, properties, and dimensions must be unique to the specific requirements of the partnership
• Categories within the framework must never be considered in isolation

Question 17

Social capital

Answer 17

refers to the networks of social relations that may provide individuals and groups with access to resources and supports”
o human capital is about what you know, and social capital is concerned with whom you know.’

Question 18

Two forms of the concept of social capital

Answer 18

Bonding
Bridging

Question 19

Bonding

Answer 19

the value assigned to social networks that are quite dense, where most members have close connections with one another (e.g., close-knit families, workplace teams, professional groups).

Question 20

Bridging

Answer 20

value generated from social networks that cut across groups, creating connections that have the potential to bring in resources that a group does not currently have or to share information between groups.