1 / 12

Building Capacity for Community Change

Building Capacity for Community Change. Community:. A group of people who share a common place, experience or interest. Community Health:. The well-being of everyone in a community. Collaborative Partnerships:. Alliances that are used to improve the health of a community.

jreynaldo
Download Presentation

Building Capacity for Community Change

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Building Capacity for Community Change

  2. Community: A group of people who share a common place, experience or interest.

  3. Community Health: The well-being of everyone in a community.

  4. Collaborative Partnerships: Alliances that are used to improve the health of a community.

  5. Community Capacity: The ability of community members to make a difference over time and across different issues.

  6. Key Partners in a broad collaboration should include: • State and community partnerships • Support organizations • Grant-makers and government agencies

  7. A Model for Community Change: • Community context and planning. • Community action and intervention. • Community and system change. • Risk and protective factors and widespread behavior change. • Improving more distant outcomes.

  8. Community context is influenced by: • Hopes and expectations. • Job and family demands. • Problems. • Financial resources. • The community’s reaction. • The broader political and social context.

  9. Community Change: Developing a new program (or modifying an existing one), bringing about a change in policy, or adjusting a practice related to the group’s mission.

  10. Affect community health and development through: • Targeted mission. • Action planning. • Changes in leadership. • Resources for community mobilizers. • Documentation and feedback. • Technical assistance. • Making outcomes matter.

  11. Mission statement: Your organization’s statement of purpose.

  12. Action planning: Identifying specific changes in the community or broader system, and implementing related action steps to bring them about.

More Related