Chapter 5:
Abstract:
In this chapter the book went through how changes are made in the community. It started by talking about organizing and building of programs and people. Bringing people together is tough and keeping them is even tougher, the book gave ideas on keeping volunteers and getting them to feel ownership. Also getting people involved is hared now than ever because of family situations and the lack of communities, not knowing your neighbors. It is important to get people involved that have stake in the community, important people and people that others will believe and want to work with.
Later the chapter went on to talk about programs that have been implemented and how they work. The examples they gave were Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities, PATCH, and MAPP. Each of these examples has a different purpose in the community, thus each has a different way of functioning. All had different steps of implementation. This chapter went through who, what, and how health programs are formed. It outlined how these programs are made and how they work.
Reflection:
Our group really enjoyed reading this chapter. We talked about how well it outlined the building of programs, and all of us really came out with an understanding of these programs. Barry remembered and example of a community program in his home town, where he was pushed into working on something he really didn't believe in and related that to ownership. He talked about how he just really didn't feel connected to it, so it didn't do anything for him. We also talked about how easy it is for these programs to fail. If the people working on these do not put In all the effort and really look into what they are trying to get done the program will fail.
We cold see how skipping or sliding through the data collection stage would really mess up a program, if you do not have the right information about your constituency then you do not have a program. Then we talked about how much work it is to get a program to work, there is so much to do from the start to the finish. You need to get people, keep people, cater to every ones needs, listen to everyone, and this is just the start. After all of that you need to get into the community and put the programs you have made to work?!?! It was really mind blowing.