Theory in Community Organizing

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By: Ms. BurgessSeptember 20, 2010

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` Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT)/Social

Marketing

` Griffin Heights Neighborhood Association (GHNA)Incorporated/Neighborhood garden suggestion/City

ordinances

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Faith Community Health Ministries/Diet and Nutrition inyour Church/The New American Plate/Body and Soul

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` Community Based Participatory Research unity BasedParticipatory Research September 9, 2010

Helps the research and academic community

Provides more valid research in the Gadsden community Bridges the gap in knowledge and trust between politicians

and community members

` SWAT is Floridas youth tobacco control program

Gadsden County Organized by the American Lung Association

` Helps students grow as community advocates

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` Organizers are Jowita and Luke

` Goal is to empower students to change policy in theircommunity related to tobacco

` IPH Social Marketing class is working with them todevelop, implement, and disseminate information

` SWAT:

Respects the different expertise Provide the students and school with a commitment to

sustainability

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` Frierians Praxis listening-dialogue-action Model September 13, 2010

Ms. Mitchell engaged the audience

Community members are the decision makers

` Information was presented about an opportunity toprovide a neighborhood garden in Griffin Heights Asked questions about the garden

Community members dialogued with each other

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` Action did not take place at the meeting Examples of action was informally presented through

knowledge and experience

` Learning moment, and everyone had an

opportunity to share their input

` Discussion provided insight that GHNA is stillbattling other issues that their community is

lacking (eg. local jobs)

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` Community Based Participatory Research September 13, 2010

` GHNA has a well established relationship within

their community City code enforcer

` Members have a strong history and awareness of

everything in their community Identified their handles and targets (eg. ordinances, city

enforcer, and police)

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` Members provided information that was commonly

shared and discussed how they are solving the

issue

Homes that are violating city codes

` The GHNA plans together Organized way of conducting their meetings

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` Education, Participation, & Community Capacity October 14, 2010

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Education Registered Dietician

Provided to the ministers and audience through a

PowerPoint presentation

Information package and visuals

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` The PowerPoint was simple, easy to understand,

and showed visual comparison of healthy steps to

the New American Plate (NAP).

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` Described the NAP at an easy reading level

` Teaches Americans to evaluate their eating andlifestyles habits, identify achievable goals, and keep

track of progress toward the goals

` Visually showed the audience proper measuring tools

` Passed around an example of a NAP, and providedknowledge on the relationship of food and cancer

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` Participation Dietician was very engaging and related to the audience

Audience was encouraged to participate in the discussion

and ask questions when needed

Ministers were empowered to take the information back

to their church and make a change

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` During the discussion, the target audience

(ministers) used community organizing language

(eg. gatekeepers & stakeholders)

` The ministers were Native to their town

Concerned with the health of their community

Active participants in their church health

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` Community capacity Ministers brought up issues and suggestion related to

transportation

Dialogue and participation identified certain barriers for

the churches and communities

` Community is lacking information on Diabetes A nurse from the Tallahassee Diabetes center provided

the audience with a little knowledge about what they doand how they can help their church and community

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` The ministers the organizers of their church healthprogram

` The ministers participates in other organized health

meetings

` The Dietician shared her tactics to avoid unhealthyeating habits

` Information was recommended with cooking class forthe ministers to do at home and in church activities

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` Audience talked about other healthy eating

classes implemented at their church

` Audience spoke about how they will introduce theNAP to their church At a literacy level easily understood

They may utilize the PowerPoint to educate their church

members

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Questions????

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Theory in Community Organizing