THE PROCESS OF ORGANIZING A COMMUNITY

Question 1

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

Answer 1

RECOGNITION OF PROBLEM

Question 2

This individual may not be the primary organizer throughout the building process because this person is the one who gets things started.

Answer 2

INITIAL ORGANIZERS

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

initial organizer

Question 4

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.

Answer 4

GAINING ENTRY INTO THE COMMUNITY

Question 5

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.

Answer 5

GAINING ENTRY INTO THE COMMUNITY

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

GATEKEEPERS

Question 7

• 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.

Answer 7

ORGANIZING THE PEOPLE

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

EXECUTIVE PARTICIPANTS

Question 9

include law enforcement personnel, former victims of violence and their families, parent-teacher associations, and even public health officials.

Answer 9

Core group

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

IDENTIFYING THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

needs assessment

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

mapping community capacity

Question 13

• 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

Answer 13

Primary Building Blocks

Question 14

• these are assets located in the neighborhood but they are argely controlled by people outside for example schools, hospitals, and housing structures

Answer 14

Secondary Building Blocks

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

Potential Building Blocks

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

DETERMINING THE PRIORITIES AND
SETTING GOALS

Question 17

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.

Answer 17

goals

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

ARRIVING AT A SOLUTION AND SELECTING
INTERVENTION ACTIVITIES

Question 19

• 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.

Answer 19

FINAL STEPS IN THE PROCESS

Question 20

It includes identifying and collecting the necessary resources and creating the appropriate timeline for implementation

Answer 20

Implementation of the intervention activities

Question 21

The process that involves comparing the outcomes of the process to the goals that were set in the earlier steps.

Answer 21

•Evaluation of results to reveal the degree of success

Question 22

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.

Answer 22

Maintaining or sustaining the intervention long enough to ensure success.

Question 23

This is to rethink, reevaluate, or rework before proceeding onward on their plan.

Answer 23

Looking back to an earlier stage of the plan, if necessary