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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Tova Wolking, MPH, Partnership for the Public's Health, Public Health Institute, 505 14th Street Suite 810, Oakland, CA 94110 and Judith Rosenberg, Transformation through Education and Mutual Support, 3540 Grand Ave., Second Floor, Oakland, CA 94610, 510-286-8940, twolking@partnershipPH.org.
This presentation will provide insight into making leadership training opportunities available for neighborhood residents and opening up public health decision-making processes to resident involvement. Working closely with TEAMS (Transformation through Education and Mutual Support), the Monument Community Partnership has established “Neighborhood Action Teams,” in which a core group of community leaders are given support and training to provide outreach to their communities. The presenters will include the “Neighborhood Action Team” facilitator and a community leader who provides outreach into the Monument neighborhood in Concord, California. They will outline strategies to build grass roots leadership and support resident leaders in projects that address critical neighborhood issues. TEAMS is a program aimed at building leadership within disenfranchised communities by encouraging residents to exercise initiative in their lives and participate in community building. They assist in organizing interested residents to exercise learning and develop leadership. Time will be given for discussion around components of their strategy, which include: involving a critical mass of interested residents in all phases of a particular project; addressing issues of immediate concern to residents (such as public safety, housing, education, employment, youth and seniors); encouraging projects that build on individual, family and neighborhood strengths and assets; and emphasizing prevention and promotion. The Monument Community Partnership is a participant in the Partnership for the Public's Health, a five-year, $40 million initiative committed to fostering broad community involvement in the development of an effective, responsive and sustainable public health system, through equal partnership of community collaborative groups and health agencies.
Learning Objectives:
Keywords: Community Building, Leadership
Related Web page: www.partnershipph.org/
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
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.