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Community betterment approach
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Attempts to improve specific aspect of community functioning using top down approach
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Community empowerment model
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Uses bottom up approach
community members have primary control of change efforts |
The seven approaches to community and social change
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Consciousness raising
social action community development community coalition organizational consultation alternative settings policy research and advocacy |
Conscientization
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When people become aware of their oppression and the forces that maintain it
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Community development
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Process of strengthening relaitonships among community members to define community problems resources and strategies for solutions
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What is a top down method of social and community change
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Policy research and advocacy
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PICO network
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National network of local faith based groups in the united states
supplies intensive leadership training in using democratic processes to identify issues of concern to comm residents and effectivly address those issues. |
PICO cycle of organizing
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1. assessment
2.research 3. mobilization/action 4.reflection |
Community readiness
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How much a locality recognizes a problem and takes steps to adress or prevent it
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9 stage model of community readiness
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1. no awarness of the problem
2. denial that it is a local problem 3. vauge awarness of problem but without local efforts 4.preplanning and info gathering 5.preparing strategies for comm change 6.initiating programs or policy 7.establishing them to stay within local organizations 8.evaluating improving and expanding 9. maintaing program support |
Social action
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Identifys specific obstacles to empowerment of disadvantages froups and creates constructive conflict to remove these obstacles through direct nonviolent action
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Community development can focus on one of four domains
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Economic development
political social physical |