This panel will address a range of community based intervention initiatives within African American communities. Coalitions, partnerships, alliances, and collaborative linkages designed to confront compelling health problems in African American communities have proliferated during the past 15 years. These efforts have provided a useful methodology for grassroots organizers, as well as health and human service providers, and the faith community to address the lack of health promotion efforts and health equity in African American communities. Some argue that a thin line exists between individual responsibility and systems responsibility for health promotion and measures of quality of life in African American communities. This panel seeks to provide a forum for stimulating discussion community based public health can and should be done with grounding in ethical practice.. The use of organizing strategies among community based organizations and use of bottom-up planning and genuine involvement of community residents in all phases of a health intervention is paramount to a culturally appropriate health intervention. The development of coalition partnerships has been shown to be a viable strategy toward solving various social problems. This approach has proven useful with cancer prevention and nutritional education efforts among African American churches, provision of services for HIV infected women, transitioning women from penal institutions to community settings, and with community based asthma education programs for children and their parents.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant will be able to: 1. List community-based strategies for intervening with health initiatives for selected subgroups in the African American community. 2. Identify aspects of intervention projects that are culturally relevant to African American populations. 3. Recognize key factors for implementing community-based health programs with African American populations. 4. Identify the ethical considerations when doing practice or research projects with community residents.
Keywords: Community-Based Health Promotion, Community-Based Partnership
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