This presentation describes a graduate level course in community organizing for health. Community organizing is a process by which communities and organizations work together to identify common problems and objectives, acquire and mobilize resources, and create and implement actions to achieve their goals. In this course students learn the bases of facilitating community organizing processes in health promotion contexts. These include theories and conceptual frameworks, basic fieldwork tools, adult and popular education, coalition building, feminist and international perspectives, and research and evaluation of community organizing processes. The format of the course includes group discussions, lectures, video documentaries, and team fieldwork with a local community. Students actively participate in the classroom, work in teams, prepare and facilitate one class session, write reports, and write and present their field project.
Learning Objectives: A. Participants will describe at least three components of a community organizing course in the context of public health curricula. B. Participants will describe an approach to incorporate critical perspectives (e.g., feminist, “third world”) into public health curricula.
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.