Who Wants to Chair the Meeting? Group Development and Leadership Patterns in a Community Action Group of Homeless People

1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 71-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia B Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Group Development ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Action Group

scholarly journals Theoretical Versus Grass-Roots Development of a Community Partnership

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Socorro Escandón
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Hispanic Women ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Community Partnership ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Community Group ◽  
Predominantly Hispanic ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Action Group

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine Bracht, Kingbury, and Rissel's five-stage community development model as applied to a grass-roots community action group. The sample consisted of low-income, predominantly Hispanic women in a community action group in a Southwestern barrio, some of whom were experiencing domestic violence. The community group organizer was interviewed, and a content analytic table was constructed. Results showed that the community group's efforts would have benefited from a theoretically organized approach. The window of opportunity continues to be open for community development researchers to offer theoretical assistance to groups that are forming and to those already formed to help them realize their goals.

scholarly journals Justifying and resisting public park commercialisation: The battle for Battersea Park

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Smith
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Public Parks ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Action Group ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Impact

Urban parks have always been contested and contradictory spaces: highly ordered and elitist, yet valued as democratic places and public amenities. In an era of neoliberal austerity there are greater pressures for parks to pay for themselves and the associated commercialisation often exacerbates conflicts between park users and managing authorities. This paper focuses on how their increased use as venues for commercial events affects the publicness of urban parks. This issue is explored via the case of Battersea Park in London, which was used as a venue for Formula E motor races in 2015 and 2016. These events disrupted park access during race weekends, but also in the periods when the venue was assembled/disassembled. The events were resisted by a community action group whose campaigning eventually resulted in the decision by Formula E to cease racing in Battersea Park. The paper analyses how Formula E events were justified and opposed using a form of rhetorical analysis inspired by the work of Michael Billig. Interviews were undertaken with key stakeholders involved in the case and their arguments were analysed to reveal different ways of thinking about public parks. The dispute is understood as one underpinned by different interpretations of who and what a park is for, and by contrasting views on the impact of interruptions to everyday routines. The Formula E events reduced public access, but the dispute surrounding the events arguably made Battersea Park more public by generating debate and by provoking local activists to defend their park.

scholarly journals Setting up environmental health improvements

2019 ◽  
pp. 368-387
Author(s):  
Ted Lankester
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rainwater Harvesting ◽  
Water Sources ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Action Group ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

This chapter describes the key environmental needs regarding water supply, sanitation, and minimizing pollution. It describes WASH (WAter, Sanitation, and Hygiene). It explains the need for clean water sources, storage, and use, emphasizing what can be done at household and community level, e.g. rainwater harvesting. It outlines higher-level causes that need to be tackled where collaboration with other providers and supplies is possible. The chapter then describes different methods of waste disposal, including the need for constructing and using latrines appropriate to the area, built and owned by the community. The chapter then describes what actions need to be taken against other forms of pollution both in urban and rural areas. There is a strong emphasis on community action and leadership, and the importance of training an effective community action group

scholarly journals Strengthening Social Interactions and Constructing New Oral Health and Health Knowledge: The Co-design, Implementation and Evaluation of A Pedagogical Workshop Program with and for Homeless Young People

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Rodriguez ◽  
Laura Beaton ◽  
Ruth Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Pedagogical Workshop ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Partner Organization

Young homeless people make up nearly one-third of those experiencing homelessness. The need to provide an educative approach, to strengthen social interacting, and construct new knowledge to increase social inclusivity, is required. The aim of this qualitative exploration was to use critical consciousness as an educative tool, to co-design, implement, and evaluate a series of oral health and health pedagogical workshops to strengthen social engagement and to construct new health knowledge, with, and for, homeless young people and their service providers. An action research design permitted the simultaneous development, implementation, and evaluation of the pedagogical workshop program. A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), providing supported accommodation for young homeless people, acted as the partner organization. Thirteen young people and five staff members from this NGO participated and co-designed eight workshops. Qualitative data collection included unstructured post-intervention interviews together with verbatim quotes from the group discussions during the workshops and from the post-workshop questionnaires. The qualitative analysis was informed by content analysis to permit the emergence of key themes from the data. The two themes were: 1. ‘trust building and collective engaging’ and 2. ‘constructing knowledge and developing skills’. Theme 1 highlighted engagement with the service provider, illustrating the transformation of the young people’s relationships, strengthening of their social interacting, and enabling their critical reflexive thinking on sensitive issues present in the homelessness trajectory. Theme 2 illustrated the young people’s ability to share, lend, and encode their new health information and convert it into an understandable and useable form. This new comprehension permitted their behavior change and social interaction. These findings provide an approach to increase young people’s knowledge, health literacy, and strengthen their social interacting to support community action.

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