THE PROCESS OF ORGANIZING A COMMUNITY Flashcards
The process of community organizing/building begins when someone recognizes that there is an existing problem in the community and decides to do something about
RECOGNITION OF PROBLEM
This individual may not be the primary organizer throughout the building process because this person is the one who gets things started.
INITIAL ORGANIZERS
In recognizing the issue, there must be a person we refer to as the _________ that decides to do something about the existing problem within the community.
initial organizer
This is the second step in the process that may or may not be needed depending on whether the issue in Step 1 was identified by someone from within or outside the communitv.
GAINING ENTRY INTO THE COMMUNITY
this step may be the most crucial step in the whole process because we need stress the importance of tactfully negotiating entry into the community with certain individuals who control, both formally and informally, the political climate of the community.
GAINING ENTRY INTO THE COMMUNITY
The term indicated that you must pass through this gate first to get to your priority population.
These power brokers know their communities.
They also know how it functions and how to accomplish tasks within it.
GATEKEEPERS
• Obtaining the support of community members to deal with the problem is the next step in the process. It is best to begin by organizing those who are already interested in seeing that the problem is solved.
ORGANIZING THE PEOPLE
core group of community members sometimes we refer to as____________ will become the backbone of the workforce and end up doing the majority of the work.
EXECUTIVE PARTICIPANTS
include law enforcement personnel, former victims of violence and their families, parent-teacher associations, and even public health officials.
Core group
In order to determine the needs and assets and also the capabilities of a community, there should be an assessment that should be completed and this includes a traditional needs assessment or a newer technique the mapping community capacity.
IDENTIFYING THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM
is a process by which data about the issues of concern are collected and analyzed. And from the analyzed data, concerns and also problems emerge and are prioritized so that strategies can be created to tackle
them.
needs assessment
is a process of identifying community assets and they do not focus on concerns or problems. It is a process by which organizers literally use a map to identify the different assets of a community.
mapping community capacity
- the most accessible assets and they are located in the neighborhood and are largely under the control of those who live in the neighborhood.
It can be organized into assets of individuals like for example skills and talents. Those of organizations or associations of religious or citizen organizations
Primary Building Blocks
- these are assets located in the neighborhood but they are argely controlled by people outside for example schools, hospitals, and housing structures
Secondary Building Blocks
These are the least accessible assets. These are resources originating outside the neighborhood and are controlled by people outside.
For example, welfare expenditures and public information.
Potential Building Blocks
most of the time, the resources needed to solve all the identified problems in the community are not available. Therefore, problems that have been identified must be prioritized.
This prioritization is best achieved through general agreement or consensus of those who have been organized so that ownership can take hold.
It means that we need to identify problems within the community, sort them, then prioritize what is the problem that we need to focus on and will try to solve.
DETERMINING THE PRIORITIES AND
SETTING GOALS
Once problems have been prioritized, there should be____ that need to be identified and written that will serve as guides for our problem-solving.
And the practice of building should be employed.
These____ which will become the foundation of all the works that follow can be thought of as the hope for the end result.
goals
A solution must involve in selecting one or more intervention strategies and each type of strategy has advantages and disadvantages. The group must try to agree upon the best strategy and then select the most advantageous intervention activitv/ies.
The group must work towards consensus through compromise.
ARRIVING AT A SOLUTION AND SELECTING
INTERVENTION ACTIVITIES
• 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.
FINAL STEPS IN THE PROCESS
It includes identifying and collecting the necessary resources and creating the appropriate timeline for implementation
Implementation of the intervention activities
The process that involves comparing the outcomes of the process to the goals that were set in the earlier steps.
•Evaluation of results to reveal the degree of success
It may be the most difficult step in the entire process because, at this point, the organizers need to seriously consider the need for a long-term capacity for problem-solving.
Maintaining or sustaining the intervention long enough to ensure success.
This is to rethink, reevaluate, or rework before proceeding onward on their plan.
Looking back to an earlier stage of the plan, if necessary
