Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare

MEREDITH MINKLER, DrPH, MPH, is a professor of health and behavior at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, and the founding director of the university’s Center on Aging. She is the coauthor or editor of numerous books, including Community-Based Participatory Research: From Processes to Outcomes (with Nina Wallerstein).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

PART ONE
Introduction
1. Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building
2. Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City

PART TWO
Contextual Frameworks and Approaches
3. Improving Health through Community Organization and Community Building
4. Contrasting Organizing Approaches
5. Community Building Practice

PART THREE
Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges
6. Community, Community Development, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships
7. Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building
8. Building Partnerships between Local Health Departments and Communities

PART FOUR
Community Assessment and Issue Selection
9. Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment
10. Mapping Community Capacity
11. Selecting and “Cutting” the Issue

PART FIVE
Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures
12. Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color
13. African American Barbershops and Beauty Salons
14. Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown

PART SIX
Using the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building
15. Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing
16. Using the Arts and New Media in Community Organizing and Community Building


PART SEVEN
Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts
17. A Coalition Model for Community Action
18. Community Organizing for Obesity Prevention in Humboldt Park, Chicago
19. Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Organizing and Coalition Building

PART EIGHT
Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy
20. Using Community Organizing and Community Building to Influence Public Policy
21. Organizing for Health Care Reform
22. Media Advocacy


Appendixes
1. Principles of Community Building
2. Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure
3. Challenging Ourselves
4. A Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health
5. Coalition Member Assessment
6. Community Mapping and Digital Technology
7. Using Force Field and “SWOT” Analysis as Strategic Tools in Community Organizing
8. A Checklist for Action
9. Criteria for Creating Triggers or Codes for Freirian Organizing
10. Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels
11. Policy Bingo

About the Contributors
Index