Community Tool Box Chapter 3
Why develop a plan?
It can help changemakers understand how to improve their communities in the most logical and efficient ways possible.
What was the Seattle example of a community-focused-initiative?
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
In this author's opinion, has the engagement in community practice increased or decreased over the last century?
Decreased
Name one of the three new elements the article discusses being considered in community organizing.
1. The use of humor as a community organizing strategy
2. The use of culture as an organizing tool; and
3. Protest as theater and carnival—
postmodern approaches to social change
What does Dean Spade call the frequent emergency response the average person partakes in to meet a need being unmet by the government?
Survival Work
Define a Public Forum
A well-publicized meeting, facilitators lead a discussion of various aspects of the issue, and what can be done to solve problems and preserve strengths--provides a basis for subsequent planning.
Give an example of a method of collecting empirical data for community practice movements
Surveys and questionnaires
How does a larger movement like the Civil Rights Movement differ from Community Practice Social work?
Macro vs Micro OR it did not directly involve the actions of social workers as mobilizers or action-takers.
What is ACT UP?
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
What were some of the earliest communities in America to implement Mutual Aid?
16th century Black Communities
What is Photovoice?
A process in which people – usually those with limited power due to poverty, language barriers, race, class, ethnicity, gender, culture, or other circumstances – use video and/or photo images to capture aspects of their environment and experiences and share them with others
What are the two types of community?
Geographic and social
What are the three parts of Jack Rothman's tripartite definition of Social Work Community Organization model?
Social planning, locality development and social action
What did ACT UP embrace as its way to fight the culture of shame around the queer community?
Sexual liberation and joy!
Name the two "Case Studies" discussed as examples of mutual aid in action.
Black Panther Movement
Hong Kong Protests
Define either Windshield or Walking Surveys
Windshield surveys are systematic observations made from a moving vehicle. Walking surveys are systematic observations made on foot.
Give an example of a virtual community or gathering place
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc.
Name one of the three fields listed as contributing to community practice methods used by social workers.
Sociology, political science or anthropology
What is a "Die In"?
When large groups of people immobilize themselves to demonstrate life or death stakes of an issue, usually in an inconvenient location.
Describe Consensus-Decision Making
-Groupworks until mostly in agreeance
-Call for a consensus check
-Blockers can express reasons and movement can be reevaluated
How many sections to this chapter were there (closest to the real number gets the points)
24, good lord
Explain why Community Assessments are essential for community practice
There is no "one size fits all" for social movements. Context and history is key!
Why is it important that social workers be the ones to carry out community practice, and NOT agencies like Public Health
Only social work historically and consistently raises and interrogates issues of power, social justice, equity, and systems reform while entities of government power are hesitant to do so!
What is a benefit of Joy in engaging new people to a movement?
It's fun and alluring!
Name and explain one of the four pitfalls Mutual Aid can suffer from
1. Deservingness Heigharchies
2. Saviorism/Paternalism
3. Being co-op'd by government entities
4.Privatization