KEY VOCABULARY
This approach focuses on a community's STRENGTHS and positive qualities - the "glass half-full" thinking.
What is the asset-based approach?
According to Activity 1, when outsiders focus only on deficits, community members may do this - doubting their community's capabilities.
What is internalize negativity (or doubt their potential)?
These are people who live IN the community and experience daily life there.
What are insiders (or community members)?
"This school has low test scores" is an example of this type of statement.
What is a deficit-based statement?
This approach focuses on what a community is MISSING or what's "wrong" with it - the "glass half-empty" thinking.
What is the deficit-based approach?
Activity 2 used this famous image that can be seen as either a young woman OR an old woman to teach about perspectives.
What is "Who Do You See?"?
These are people like media and researchers who are NOT part of the community.
What are outsiders?
"This school has caring teachers who stay after to help students" is an example of this type of statement.
What is an asset-based statement?
These are the three types of things that make up community resources.
What are goods, services, and people?
In the cemetery story from Activity 2, the American brought roses and the Nigerian brought this.
What is soup (or a pot of soup)?
Insiders are often THIS - the best able to identify resources and strengths in their own community.
What is "best able to identify resources and strengths"?
Community gardens provide healthy food plus this social benefit for health.
What is social connection (or social benefit/community connection)?
These social, economic, and political factors influence health before someone even gets sick - the "big picture" causes.
What are upstream causes?
According to the cemetery story, the main lesson is that no one culture is more important than another; they are just this.
What is different?
Outsiders can sometimes do this negative thing - making damaging assumptions and creating stereotypes.
What is make damaging assumptions (or create stereotypes)?
Public transportation helps health by giving people access to jobs, healthcare, and this third thing.
What is food (or healthy food/grocery stores)?
These oversimplified or unfair beliefs about groups of people can harm community health by causing people to overlook strengths and internalize negativity.
What are stereotypes?
Activity 2 teaches that this is necessary for social advocacy and requires people on both sides of an issue to respect each other's perspectives.
What is partnership (or collaboration)?
According to Section 3, this is the BEST APPROACH - insiders and outsiders doing this together.
What is working together (or collaborating)?
A food desert, which means no grocery stores nearby, is an example of this type of thing that harms health.
What is a barrier (to health)?