Health Services 572B• Community Development
for Health
Extended Degree Program • Winter & Spring Quarters 2006
Extended Degree Program • Winter & Spring Quarters 2006
Community-Development Web Sites
Here are some interesting links to community development
web-sites. If you learn of more sites, please let us know (hagopian@u.washington.edu)
and we'll add them. Thank you!
The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development:
http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/index.html
Also, for student based organizations on the University
of Washington that focus on Community Development projects for health science
students and rural and urban medically underserved, visit SPARX
(Student Providers Aspiring to Rural and Underserved Experiences) at
http://www.dom.washington.edu/sparx/
Dr. Amitai Etzioni served as Professor of Sociology at
Columbia University. He founded and was the first president ('89-'90) of the
international Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics He is the editor
of The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, a communitarian quarterly.
In 1991 the press started referring to Dr. Etzioni as the "guru" of
the communitarian movement. See Amitai Etzoni's web page: http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/
Building community in your neighborhood is being promoted by a variety of agencies, organizations, and on both sides of the political spectrum. One of your assignments this year relates to this. Go to the Seattle Times to see an article for suggestions: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=howto06&date=20021006&query=neighbors
Sherry Bockwinkel's Washington Initiatives Now organization is at: http://www.wa-initiatives.com/index.html
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health maintains a website of service-learning course syllabi and other curricular materials - we have several courses listed there that have similar titles/areas of focus - and there are links to other websites with health syllabi: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/projects.html
The Organize Training Center (OTC) has a publications list that's very cool.
Saul Alinsky: Homo Ludens for Urban Democracy by Richard Luecke
The Community Tool Box, maintained online by the Work Group on Health Promotion
and Community Development at the University of Kansas, is amazing. Very user
friendly site with tons of pragmatic organizing and program design and
evaluation instruction. http://ctb.ku.edu/
If you haven't seen it already, check out Organizing for Social Change, by Kim Bobo, et al. Many organizers consider it the bible of organizing, and it contains a wealth of pragmatic instruction and resources for doing better organizing work. http://www.midwestacademy.com/Book/page3.html
Especially for folks in Seattle, you can find inspiration in Humbows, Not Hot Dogs! Memoirs of a Savvy Asian American Activist, by Bob Santos (Read review here.)
Uncle Bob's story chronicles his life as one of the instigators of the community-driven direct action that is largely credited for saving Seattle's International District and promoting the community's ongoing health. Particularly interesting is his description of ongoing alliances between Asian American, Latino, Native American, and African American community organizations in Seattle who have held together against the Strategy and Vision Problems that Cynthia Peters describes. Better yet, talk to Uncle Bob yourself, he is still the executive director at Inter*Im Community Development Association. (http://www.interimicda.org/).
Newsletter archives of the Association for Community Health Improvement.