Chap 5 Community Organization Building and Health Promotion

Chap 5: Community Organization/ Building and Health Promotion • Anita Sego • Spring, 2005

Chap 5: Community Organization Chapter Objectives • Define community organizing. • Identify the assumptions that underlie the process of community organization. • Briefly explain the difference between locality development, social planning, and social action approaches to community organization. • List the steps for a generalized model for community organizing/building

Chap 5: Community Organization Chapter Objectives • Explain what is meant by community building. • Explain the difference between health education and health promotion. • State and summarize the steps involved in creating a health promotion program. • Define the term needs assessment.

Chap 5: Community Organization Chapter Objectives • Briefly explain the six steps used in assessing needs. • Explain the difference between goals and objectives. • List the different type of intervention strategies. • Explain the purposes of pilot testing in program development. • State the difference between formative and summative evaluation.

Chap 5: Community Organization Definition • Community organizing – “a process through which communities are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and in other ways develop and implement strategies for reaching their goals they have collectively set. ”

Chap 5: Community Organization Assumptions of Community Organization 1. Communities of people can develop the capacity to deal with their own problems. 2. People want to change and can change. 3. People should participate in making, adjusting, or controlling the major changes taking place in their communities. 4. Changes in community living, which are selfimposed or self-developed have a meaning and permanence that imposed changes do not have.

Chap 5: Community Organization Assumptions of Community Organization 5. A ‘holistic approach’ can deal successfully with problems with which a ‘fragmented approach’ cannot cope. 6. Democracy requires cooperative participation & action in the affairs of the community, & people must learn the skills which make this possible. 7. Frequently, communities of people need help in organizing to deal with their needs, just as many individuals require help with individual problems.

Chap 5: Community Organization Community Organizing Methods • Locality development – is a broad self-help method in which local citizens develop new skills and become more self-sufficient. • Social planning – utilizes skilled volunteers in the community in a technical process of problem solving. • Social action – is a technique that involves the redistribution of power and resources to disadvantaged segments of the population.

Chap 5: Community Organization Process for Organizing a Community Recognizing the problem Making entry into the community Organizing the people Assessing the community Determining priorities & setting goals Selecting a solution to the problem

Chap 5: Community Organization The Final 4 Steps Implementing Evaluating Looping back Maintaining

Chap 5: Community Organization Creating a Health Promotion Program Assessing needs Identifying the problem Setting goals & Objectives Developing an Intervention Implementing Evaluating the results Intervention A Generalized Model for Program Planning

Chap 5: Community Organization Creating a Health Promotion/ Disease Prevention Program - Overview • Assessing the needs • Identifying the problem(s) • Setting goals and objectives • Developing an intervention • Implementing the intervention • Evaluating the results

Chap 5: Community Organization Assessing the Needs Determine the purpose & scope Gathering data Analyzing the data Identifying factors linked to the health problem Identifying the program focus Validating the prioritized need

Chap 5: Community Organization Creating a Health Promotion/ Disease Prevention Program - Overview • Assessing the needs • Setting goals and objectives – goal is a future event toward which an endeavor is directed – objectives are steps taken in pursuit of a goal • Developing an intervention – designing activities that meet your objectives • Implementing the intervention – putting into practice • Evaluating the results

Chap 5: Community Organization Evaluating the results

Chap 5: Community Organization Evaluating the results Planning the evaluation

Chap 5: Community Organization Evaluating the results Planning the evaluation Collecting the data

Chap 5: Community Organization Evaluating the results Planning the evaluation Collecting the data Analyzing the data

Chap 5: Community Organization Evaluating the results Planning the evaluation Collecting the data Analyzing the data Reporting results

Chap 5: Community Organization Evaluating the results Planning the evaluation Collecting the data Analyzing the data Reporting results Applying the results

Chap 5: Community Organization Chapter 5 Community Organization and Health Promotion Planning: Two Important Tools Of Community Health