Community Organizing Goes to College: a Practice-based Model to Implement Environmental Strategies to Reduce High-risk Drinking on College Campuses

Overview

Journal Health Promot Pract

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialties Medical Education
Public Health

Date 2010 Jun 10

PMID 20530638

Citations 4

Authors

Kimberly G Wagoner

Scott D Rhodes

Ashley W Lentz

Mark Wolfson

Affiliations

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Abstract

Community organizing is a successful method to leverage resources and build community capacity to identify and intervene on health issues. However, published accounts documenting the systematic facilitation of the process are limited. This qualitative analysis explored community organizing using data collected as part of the Study to Prevent Alcohol Related Consequences (SPARC), a randomized community trial of 10 North Carolina colleges focused on reducing consequences of high-risk drinking among college students. The authors sought to develop and confirm use of a community-organizing model, based in practice, illustrating an authentic process of organizing campus and community stakeholders for public health change. Using the grounded theory approach, they analyzed and interpreted data from three waves of individual interviews with full-time community organizers on five SPARC intervention campuses. A five-phase community-organizing model was developed and its use was confirmed. This model may serve as a practical guide for public health interventions using community-organizing approaches.

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