Empowerment
This social action process of empowerment supports people in gaining this.
What is mastery over the life of the community?
Based on reflection and action, critical consciousness leads to this.
What is change?
Community capacity affects a community's ability to do this.
What is identifying, mobilizing around and addressing problems?
Issue selection identifies these.
What are specific and winnable targets of change that build community strength?
The concept of participation and relevance holds that community members are to engaged in this way.
What are equals in community organizing activities?
The power of this group of people expands through empowerment.
Who are community members?
These are linked in dialogue with critical consciousness.
What are root causes and community actions?
These are ways in which community members actively participate in the life of their community.
What are leadership, social networks, and access to power?
Deciding on targets is part of this.
What is a larger community-identified strategy?
What is their own agenda, based on felt needs, shared power and awareness of resources?
Empowerment focuses in transforming these.
What are power relations?
Who is Paulo Freire?
This political science concept has been embraced in the field of public health.
What is social capital?
He suggested that a good issue must be winnable.
Who is Saul Alinsky?
Community organizers have adapted strategies from this field for creating strategic action plans.
What is organizational development?