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- Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare
- 2012
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- Published by: Rutgers University Press
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With a strong emphasis on cultural relevance and humility, this collection offers a wealth of case studies in areas ranging from childhood obesity to immigrant worker rights to health care reform. A “tool kit” of appendixes includes guidelines for assessing coalition effectiveness, exercises for critical reflection on our own power and privilege, and training tools such as “policy bingo.” From former organizer and now President Barack Obama to academics and professionals in the fields of public health, social work, urban planning, and community psychology, the book offers a comprehensive vision and on-the-ground examples of the many ways community building and organizing can help us address some of the most intractable health and social problems of our times.
Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- pp. xiii-xiii
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvii
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- Part One: Introduction
- pp. 1-4
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- Part Four: Community Assessment and Issue Selection
- pp. 149-151
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- 10 Mapping Community Capacity
- pp. 171-186
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- 11 Selecting and “Cutting” the Issue
- pp. 187-210
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- 17 A Coalition Model for Community Action
- pp. 309-328
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- Appendixes
- pp. 421-463
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- About the Contributors
- pp. 465-479
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