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Chapter Twenty-Two

Foundations For Community Health Workers. (2009) Editors: Berthold, T., Miller, J., and Avila-Esparza, A. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Chapter Twenty-Two. Community Organizing and Advocacy. What you will learn. Define community organizing Contemporary models of community organizing

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Chapter Twenty-Two

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  1. Foundations For • Community Health Workers • (2009) • Editors: Berthold, T., Miller, J., and • Avila-Esparza, A. San Francisco: • Jossey-Bass Chapter Twenty-Two Community Organizing and Advocacy

  2. What you will learn • Define community organizing • Contemporary models of community organizing • Five steps of community action model (CAM) • CHWs role and responsibilities in community organizing

  3. Community organizing • Group of people who have been denied participation in a decision making process • By working together, they create social change which results in new resources, rights, improved health and living conditions Examples: Unions, picketing, protesting, boycotting

  4. Why organize? • People without power and control, can get together to assert their needs and for a better life • CHWs develop relationships with the communities and can facilitate community organizing Working together to bring attention to a cause or issue

  5. What is community organizing? A process by which people, usually a group of people who have been denied resources and participation in the decision-making process, work together to create social change that results in meaningful improvements such as access to new resources and rights or improved health and living conditions.

  6. Examples of community organizing Labor movements • Safe working conditions • Right to organize • Limits to working hours • Living wage American Disabilities Act (ADA) United Farm Workers Civil Rights Movement Act Up Health issues • High rate of infant mortality • Pollution • HIV/AIDS • Drug use – needle exchange • Incarceration • Homelessness

  7. Models of community organizing • Community capacity building – ability to develop and sustain strong relationships to work together to identify problems and goals, make group decisions, and take action • Collaborative partnerships – building alliances with people and institutions who share your values and goals

  8. Media advocacy Media can be used to: • Inform – the public about the consequences • Recast – the problem affects everyone • Encourage – community members to get involved • Promote – agencies that address the problem

  9. Community Action Model (CAM) 5 steps Identify the problem Assess the problem/community diagnosis Analyze findings Identify and implement an advocacy action Maintain actions and results

  10. Role and responsibilities in community organizing • Assist with the research • Plan the process • Stay grounded in the community • Build relationships • Cultivate the media • Be committed • Take care of yourself • Plan with people, not for them • Have goals and strategies • Identify leaders • Work with diversity • Bridge the language barriers • Safety comes first

  11. Words to know • Community organizing • Community capacity building • Collaborative partnerships • Media advocacy

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