Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Part One: Introduction
6. 1. Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building 5
7. 2. Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City 27
8. Part Two: Contextual Frameworks and Approaches
9. 3. Improving Health through Community Organization and Community Building: Perspectives from Health Education and Social Work 37
10. 4. Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The “Alinsky Tradition” and Freirian Organizing Approaches 59
11. 5. Community Building Practice: An Expanded Conceptual Framework 78
12. Part Three. Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges
13. 6. Community, Community Development, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Some Critical Reflections 95
14. 7. Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building 110
15. 8. Building Partnerships between Local Health Departments and Communities: Case Studies in Capacity Building and Cultural Humility 130
16. Part Four. Community Assessment and Issue Selection
17. 9. Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment? 153
18. 10. Mapping Community Capacity 171
19. 11. Selecting and “Cutting” the Issue 187
20. Part Five. Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures
21. 12. Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color 215
22. 13. African American Barbershops and Beauty Salons: An Innovative Approach to Reducing Health Disparities through Community Building and Health Education 229
23. 14. Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown: A Case Study 246
24. Part Six. Using the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building
25. 15. Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing 269
26. 16. Using the Arts and New Media in Community Organizing and Community Building: An Overview and Case Study from Post-Katrina New Orleans 288
27. Part Seven. Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts
28. 17. A Coalition Model for Community Action 309
29. 18. Community Organizing for Obesity Prevention in Humboldt Park, Chicago: The Challenges and Successes of Coalition Building across Two Organizing Traditions 329
30. 19. Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Organizing and Coalition Building 346
31. Part Eight. Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy
32. 20. Using Community Organizing and Community Building to Influence Public Policy 371
33. 21. Organizing for Health Care Reform: National and State-Level Efforts and Perspectives 386
34. 22. Media Advocacy: A Strategy for Helping Communities Change Policy 407
35. Appendixes
36. 1. Principles of Community Building: A Policy Perspective 423
37. 2. Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure 425
38. 3. Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege 428
39. 4. A Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health 437
40. 5. Coalition Member Assessment 439
41. 6. Community Mapping and Digital Technology: Tools for Organizers 444
42. 7. Using Force Field and “SWOT” Analysis as Strategic Tools in Community Organizing 449
43. 8. A Checklist for Action 454
44. 9. Criteria for Creating Triggers or Codes for Freirian Organizing 455
45. 10. Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels 457
46. 11. Policy Bingo 460
47. About the Contributors 465
48. Index 481