FS_Assignment #1 BARRIERS TO CE 11

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ASSIGNMENT#1.1: Barriers to Community Engagement Part 1: Serial Displacements 1) How will your overall knowledge of these policies and their contribution to health disparities improve your effectiveness as a community organizer? After sharing information about these policies to impacted community members, how might it hider your ability to organize? (100 words or less) The policies and their impact on health disparities have the potential to benefit a community when approached from a capacity-building perspective. This involves developing sustainable skills, resources, and organizational structures within the affected community. By collaborating with and engaging stakeholders, organizers can ensure the process is equitable and sustainable. Sharing knowledge, leadership skills, and representing the interests of one's constituents can all contribute to building capacity and organizing the community. However, it is essential to recognize that capacity building faces numerous challenges, including social, political, economic, and environmental barriers. With a thorough understanding of the environment as a community organizer, power imbalances and problems can be effectively solved (Benjamin, 2011). 2) Using an approach that facilitates empowerment and community action as opposed to hopelessness and despair, w rite a script indicating what you would say to a community impacted by these policies? (150 words). As per Kenneth Maton's definition, empowerment is a process through which oppressed and marginalized groups gain control over their lives, environment, and achieve important goals. As mentioned earlier, empowerment is a group-based process that results from changes in the relationships among people. It can bring about significant community changes that help underserved individuals access health services. This has the potential to change the environment within which health disparities occur. The examples cited demonstrate that a community-based participatory research approach can redistribute power and influence health behavior (Benjamin, 2011). For instance, the Transgender Community Health Project in San Francisco helped transgender individuals define and work towards a solution that met their needs. As a result, policymakers provided funding to identify HIV/AIDS in transgender individuals. Similarly, a study on youth suicide in First Nations communities in Canada found that empowering communities resulted in a lower rate of youth suicide. To improve community health outcomes, it is essential to develop and maintain partnerships among key stakeholders, including individuals, businesses, media, and others, to influence policies (Thompson et al., 2016). Part II: Historical Trauma Theory Key Take Away Messages 1

Scenario: I am the health Officer for a city or county health department and need strategies to mobilize a community impacted by the policies and trauma discussed in Parts 1 and 2. Using your own intuition knowledge, describe to me a community organizing strategy to mobilize the community to take action despite past policies and trauma that has affected where they live, work, and play. Your response should identify at least one doable action to engage this community (150- 200 words). Community organizing is a process through which communities identify their assets and concerns, prioritize, and select issues, intentionally build power, and develop and implement action strategies for change. The most effective strategies for achieving community change are the coalition-building model and collaborative approaches. Coalitions and regional collaboratives are widespread in diverse areas of health, social work, and urban and regional planning, including disease management and prevention, homelessness and violence, and health-focused land use planning. They are formal long-term collaborations composed of diverse organizations, factions, or constituencies that agree to work together towards a common goal. Additionally, it enhances the stability of public health programs by building political and public support, securing and maintaining funding, and advocating for policy change (Minkler, 2012). For instance, to play an active role in addressing issues such as intolerance towards serial forced displacement and the psychological effects of trauma on families, a community-based coalition is formed that includes local community centers, hospitals, stakeholders, social service providers, and businesses. The coalition's mission is to use the collective power to impact the poor psychological health within their communities positively. This community-based approach to coalition building embraces the knowledge and expertise of each member, turning the community into individuals working towards change and educating everyone on the importance of community support for improved outcomes (Minkler, 2012). Part III. BIG DATA/Artificial Intelligence Implications for Public Health 1) What was your overall reaction to the information provided in videos a – f? List 4 key take home messages that concern you most and explain why. The four key take home points that are essential and demand our attention are as follows: 1. The Internet search engines, owing to their monopoly status and the private interests involved, have resulted in biased search algorithms that promote a culture of racism and discrimination online. This discrimination is towards people of color, especially women of color. 2

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