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Community Organizing and Advocacy
Future public health promotion should pay more attention to building strong community connections
1.1 Community-led action at the neighbourhood scale has proved vital to addressing complex health inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
1.2 Multi-discipline teams have demonstrated how to meet equity needs within a targeted universalist approach to public health.
1.3 Focusing on the role of communities and the neighbourhood scale can strengthen our understanding of what is needed to support
Community is not a new term and deserves more attention now.
2.1 The term community organization was coined by American social workers in the late 1800s in reference to their efforts to coordinate services for newly arrived immigrants and the poor
2.2 Communities were defined to help self-identity and to improve trouble-shooting skills.
2.3 Began in the 1970s, communities have been playing an essential role in health promotion that stressed increasing people’s control over the determinants of their health, high-level public participation, and intersectoral cooperation
There are several models for community organization.
3.1 Rothman has developed three models of community organizing which are locality development, social planning, and social action.
3.2 Feminist community organizing combines the goals and assumptions of social advocacy organiz- ing with methods that often are consistent with community capacity development
3.3 the Healthy Heartlands Initiative, across five midwestern states, combines faith-based community capacity development, planning and policy (or “setting the table with technical experts”), and social advocacy toward legislators and other key players to promote racial and health equity.
There are several concepts applied in community organization and community building practice.
4.1 Empowerment and critical consciousness requires multilayered removing barriers and transforming power relations between communities, institutions, and public agencies.
4.2 Community Capacity, Social Capital, and Social Networks emphasize the importance of social networks.
4.3 Issue Selection, Participation, and Relevance are one of the most important steps in community organization.
Participatory practice needs to be embedded into health promotion in Canada.
5.1 Historical colonization still negatively impacts vulnerabilities in Canada and more methods are required to help them.
5.2 Health promotion needs to change the process and relationship, not just arrangements or funding.