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4 Community Power: Approaches and Models
4 Community Power: Approaches and Models
Pages 37-52
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The third session of the workshop showcased existing models for community-based learning and evaluation, each grounded in principles of power building and in asset-based, people-centered frameworks. The session featured presentations on using quantitative and qualitative data in antiracist work, community planning to incorporate resident voices in development decisions, and the positive deviance community-based 37
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David's Foundation, moderated the session. THE MEASURE CARE MODEL Meme Styles, founder and president at MEASURE, discussed the historical gap in equitable data tools and the work being conducted to fill it.
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Organizations and institutions can use the CARE model with any issue they are partnering with communities to address, whether it be health, criminalization, or voting rights. Increasing meaningful community engagement while minimizing potential trauma or harm to that community, the CARE model is based on the following four guiding principles: (1)
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Effect of the CARE Model in Central Texas Styles described the effect of the CARE model implemented in central Texas. The Innocence Initiative is an award-winning program that has trained more than 700 attorneys to protect Black girls from adultification bias.2,3 This effort led to the creation of a community-created policy brief that is informing new laws in Texas, along with the distribution of "15,500 community-created comic books about Black girl magic." The program has launched a mentorship program that matches Black girls with Black women, in addition to providing them with food, monthly cash stipends, and access to two Black women psychologists who are part of the program's team.
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To help disrupt traditional research methods, the organization is training researchers at major institutions on how to the use the CARE model and other activist-created tools. HEALTHY RICHMOND COLLECTIVE BUILDING POLICY INITIATIVE Roxanne Carrillo Garza, senior director at Healthy Richmond,4 works with resident leaders, community-based organizations, base builders, and systems leaders to develop collective policy advocacy strategies to improve health, safety, school and neighborhood environments, and economic development opportunities.
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. Garza noted that these statements include explicit language regarding race equity and eliminating anti-Black racism, thus positioning the organization to meet the moment as the events of 2020 unfolded.5 Building Power for Education Equity To address education equity, Healthy Richmond has supported parent and student leaders in advocating within the local school district.
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Current efforts focus on creating a racial equity community oversight council, which would allow parents to work in partnership with the school board to define what racial equity in the district looks like. Thus far, the school board has not been supportive of this step, Garza noted.
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Garza noted that the focus on community wealth building was born out of conversations about community safety. In those discussions, residents determined it was not a larger police presence that was needed to increase neighborhood safety, but rather greater community wealth.
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Power Building for Health Equity Healthy Richmond is working for health equity, or "health for all," with an action team supporting power-building strategies for residents. The organization conducted a series of listening sessions with community groups that had difficulty accessing health services across the three health systems in the area: Kaiser Permanente, the county health department, 6 See https://healthyrichmond.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03QoL-digital-enlish.pfd (accessed July 17, 2021)
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THE POSITIVE DEVIANCE APPROACH Arvind Singhal, Samuel and Edna Marston Endowed Professor and director of the Social Justice Initiative at The University of Texas at El Paso, discussed the positive deviance approach, which is based on the belief that communities are endowed with the wisdom, the power, and the resources to solve their own problems. He noted that over the past
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The positive deviance approach assumes this is possible through a "flipped" way of thinking that involves asking questions that have not been previously asked, while also asking and acting in a new way. To describe this further, Singhal provided three examples.
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You are the father of the Indian nation." Gandhi's reply: "I travel third class because, as you know, there is no fourth class." Singhal noted this way of thinking and acting is completely outside the norm. Practical Application of the Positive Deviance Approach These three stories illustrate a different way of thinking that can be used in understanding how communities hold the power to solve problems, said Singhal.
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once they are gleaned, the positive deviance approach involves yet another difference from the norm. Instead of telling or showing people new information, the approach involves creating the conditions for people to act out these newly discovered, but uncommon and replicable, behaviors (Singhal and Svenkerud, 2019)
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Singhal recounted that while he was a visiting professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, the Dalai Lama spoke on campus and began his talk by saying that every time he is on a university campus, he is reminded that the buildings were created to cultivate habits of the head. The Dalai Lama asked, "In addition to these institutions that cultivate habits of the head, where are the institutions, the frameworks, and models that create the conditions for cultivating the habits of the heart?
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Styles explained that the first phase of the CARE model uses a timeline of injustice. When MEASURE works with a community, it spends days or even weeks developing a timeline of how the community has suffered from enslavement of their people, caging of their children, or other injustices that affect the problem the community is seeking to change.
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. Positive deviance is simply a variation in practice that creates the conditions for something unique to a community to be acknowledged, identified, and amplified.
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