Chap 5: Community Organization/
Building and Health Promotion
Instructors Name
Semester, 200_
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
self-imposed or self-developed have a
meaning and permanence that imposed
changes do not have.
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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.
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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.
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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
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The Final 4 Steps
Implementing
Implementing
Looping back
Maintaining
Maintaining
Evaluating
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Creating a Health Promotion
Program
Assessing
needs
Identifying
the
problem
Setting
goals
&
Objectives
Developing
an
Intervention
Implementing
Evaluating
the
the results
Intervention
A Generalized Model for Program Planning
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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
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Assessing the Needs
Determine the purpose & scope
Gathering
Gathering data
data
Analyzing
Analyzing the
the data
data
Identifying
Identifying factors
factors linked
linked to
to the
the health
health problem
problem
Identifying
Identifying the
the program
program focus
focus
Validating
Validating the
the prioritized
prioritized need
need
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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
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Evaluating the results
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Evaluating the results
Planning the evaluation
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Evaluating the results
Planning the evaluation
Collecting the data
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Evaluating the results
Planning the evaluation
Collecting the data
Analyzing the data
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Evaluating the results
Planning the evaluation
Collecting the data
Analyzing the data
Reporting results
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Evaluating the results
Planning the evaluation
Collecting the data
Analyzing the data
Reporting results
Applying the results
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Chapter 5
Community Organization and
Health Promotion Planning:
Two Important
Tools Of Community Health
