Community Service

Maria lives in Dallas, Texas. If Maria wants to serve her community, what could she decide to do that would make a difference?

• Buy a ticket for the fair in her town.
• Read a book on the history of her community.
• Volunteer to work with a group that cleans the city park.
• Sell lemonade in her neighborhood.

What is community service?

• Getting paid to do a job.

• volunteering to do something for your family.

• Volunteering to do free work to benefit your community.

• Getting compensated to do work.

Examples of volunteer work would be

• Serving in a community dinner for the poor/in need.

• Organizing a clothing drive for the less fortunate.

• Picking up trash along the highway.

• All of the above.

Provides one with a snapshot of local policies, systems, and environmental change

• Community Needs Assessment

• Community Needs Improvement

• Community Needs Agreements

• Community Needs Volunteer

Involves designing laws, rules, protocols, and procedures to guide or influence behavior

• Social Change

• Economic Change

• Policy Change

• Regulation Change

May include a policy or environmental change strategy

• Policy Change

• Social Geographic Change

• Policy and Environmental Change

• System Change

Relates to physical, social, or economic factors designed to influence people’s habits and behaviors.

• Economic Change

• Environment Change

• Economical Change

• Environmental Change

Positive changes about how people feel about policies to promote health.

• Social

• Emotional

• Mental

• Behavioral

The presence of financial disincentives or incentives to encourage a desired behavior.

• Social

• Mental

• Economic

• Behavioral

The use or involvement of volunteer labor

• Community Needs Assessment

• Partnership

• Community Service

• Volunteerism