Week 11 Flashcards
What are the advantages of trying to change health behaviour at the community level vs personal level?
At the community level, the health behaviour change will be much more impactful than if you worked individually. It involves using the broad assets of the community to help make it easier for parents to make healthy choices for their kids and address community level issues.
What is building capacity with regards to community based strategies?
Capacity building uses both the internal team and external team from an organization to gain knowledge, resources, and solutions to community issues. Capacity building encourages local people to take action on local issues themselves–> capacity for a community to create change.
T/F: appropriate strategies for implementing behaviour change programs at the community level cannot be determined beforehand
T.
What are some important sources of information needed at the outset with regards to community based strategies?
information should reflect the needs of the community members themselves
What does engaging the stakeholders mean and why is this engagement so important?
all about getting out into the community and building relationships with (1) those that would invest in the intervention and (2) those who could help or hinder the project.
Then you need to listen and hear advice/words of wisdom from stakeholders
What do we need to match strategies?
- timing?
- change over time?
- What were the 3 results of the cooking funds for families project?
- What was the biggest challenge?
- a) improvement in family nutrition
b) improvement in family bonds
c) stronger community connection - TIMING
What are the 6 holistic criteria for a community? Explain each:
- Membership = identity, belonging by geography, interests, enrolled in a course, program or university
- Common symbol systems = common language, rituals, ceremonies; common words like HP in our class for example
- Shared values and norms = ex within this class is that we want a good grade, reading, studying
- Mutual influence = how we influence others and how they influence us
- Shared needs = what is needed at the community level to improve overall health. Ex: walkerton water crisis where their water was contaminated. The shared need was safer water supply
- Shared emotional connection through experiences, history and support = veterans, students, those involved in the community
- community based programs have large potential for ____________ based changes
- Use principles of participatory _________ and _________ ___________
- What is not another word for community organization?
a) community development
b) community led practice
c) community participation
d) grass roots participation - The term community organization comes from the idea of ____________
- T/F: the problems or goals of CO efforts although large, can be managed by one organization
- population
- participatory democracy and social justice
- b)
- social work literature
- F
- What is the definition of community organization (CO)?
- CO is not a _______ but rather an ______ of building _________ within a ___________ process
- CO = enrichment, development and change of social institutions
2.CO is not a science but rather an art of building consensus within a democratic process
- What are the challenges of CO and how has this become a challenge over the years?
- What is an example of building community organization that a neighbourhood can input?
- The loss of community in today’s society can be a result of ________
- historically, people had stronger relationships with their neighbours and sense of community was much more powerful. In today’s society, it’s very rare for people to even know their neighbours. We often rely on higher ups like governments/law makers then members of our community to make a difference.
- neighbourhood watch to protect from crime
- COVID-19
- Too often community activists striving to improve health in their neighbourhoods ask “_________” and face the same response “_____”. What should be responded is “_______”
- The results of the data haven telephone survey were:
a) rate of diabetes = ____% ( __x the rate in high income areas)
b) obesity rate = ___% ( __x the rate in high income areas) - What was the results of the West river community organization?
- T/F: public health must be led by non-medical people to change the lives of all generations
- who will help, not I, we will
- a) 17%, 2x
b) 38% 2x - wanted to build a garden, brought people together, wisdom exchange, public health led by non-med people to change lives of all generations, built community capacity
- T
Fill in the blanks about the 7 CO assumptions:
1. Communities can develop the _________ to deal with our own ________
2. People want to _______ and can _______
3. People should play active ____ in major changes taking place in their communities
4. ______ ________ changes work better than other imposed changes
5. _________ approaches offered through varying interests provides _______ successful ways to deal with the issue
6. Democracy requires ________ of people and their actions with regard to what they want to change: The people’s involvement through democracy make the change more _______
7. Help is often needed to ________ communities towards meeting their needs
- capacity, problems
- change, change
- roles
- self-imposed
- holistic, more
- cooperation, viable
- mobilize
What are the 8 steps of the CO process?
- recognize the problem/issue: starts the process, can come from the people within the community (bottom up or citizen initiated) or can be noticed by people outside the community (top down or outside in)
- gain entry into community: need to get buy in, opinion leaders (formal/informal), gatekeepers
- organize the people: gain support of the masses
- identify the specific problem/assess community: look for root causes
- determine priorities and set goals: just like in the PP model
- arrive at the solution and select intervention
- implement, evaluate and maintain
- loop back
What are resources?
people and things required to carry out the program. quantity depends on the nature of the program
