Health Promotion: Community Building & Community Organizing

Which of the following are NOT characteristics associated with a community?

• Membership and mutual influence
• Shared values/norms and needs
• Social cohesion and exclusivity 
• Shared emotional connection and common symbols

Advanced technology had an impact on the community through creating interdependence. This results in decreased social cohesion.

• True
• False

In the Port Union community, there is a problem with the tap water in people's homes. A couple individuals within the community suggest that home owners should contact their local water facility. However, someone outside of the community suggests that all home owners should purchase a water filter. Which people's suggestion will have a greater impact on the community? 

• Internal person (Grassroots)
• External person (outside influences)
• Neither 

Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #ows is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future. What is this an example of? 

• Community Capacity
• Grassroots Participation
• Citizen Participation
• Community Development

The local residents in a community engage in voluntary work, organize litter-clearing campaigns and set up collectives to purchase solar panels. This example embodies which of the following definitions?

• Citizen Participation
• Grassroots Participation
• Community Development
• Community Capacity

The Cliffside community wants to implement an exercise program. However, most of the community consists of the elderly, who believe that they can not engage in physical activity as indicated by the needs assessment. The program committee taking into consideration of the needs assessment thought it was best to use motivational interviewing. After a year of treatment, the community feels empowered to engage in exercise. Motivational interviewing helped the clients see a different perspective through their own eyes and increased the client's self-efficacy. In this particular example, motivational interviewing facilitated in:

• Increasing community capacity
• Community development
• Citizen participation
• Grassroots participation

Which of the following are NOT associated with Community Capacity Development? 

• Social solildatory
• Group consensus 
• Empowerment 
• Social capital 

During a needs assessment, Jill has found that in the community of London, cardiovascular disease is a prevalent issue. She gathers data to generate a rationale in hopes that it will help create a specific solution. What would this process of community organizing and building be called? 

• Planning and policy practice
• Community capacity development
• Social advocacy
• Social agency

Which of the following approaches use group consensus in their strategy? 

• Community Capacity development
• Social advocacy
• Community development
• 2 of the above options

It is best if the leaders from the planning project come from within the community rather than making the planner the leader. The processes of community organizing and building begin where someone recognizes that an issue exists within the community and that something needs to be done about it. This individual would be referred as:

• Initial organizer
• Primary organizer
• Major leader
• Minor leader