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Photo Essay

Photo Essay. By Elizabeth Ortega. “ LEARNINIG OUTCOME ONE: Summarize the historical roots of community development and organizing, advocacy, and social movements” (S. Kincaid, Personal Communication, January 7, 2014) . Photo courtesy of Google image.

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  1. Photo Essay By Elizabeth Ortega

  2. “LEARNINIG OUTCOME ONE: Summarize the historical roots of community development andorganizing, advocacy, and social movements”(S. Kincaid, Personal Communication, January 7, 2014). Photo courtesy of Google image.

  3. According to Sargent (2009) equality for women has been addressed through out the history of civilization. The woman’s movement that began in the United States in the nineteenth century started as a general movement for sexual quality and ended with women advocating for their right to vote. The movement lasted in most countries into the twentieth century and was one of the longest lasting movements to take place (p. 160-162). Photo courtesy of Google image.

  4. Community development and promoting change is an on going struggle for millions of people who are still fighting for equality and social justice. According to Homan (2011) “ A community or an organization is not frozen in time; it is a story continuing to unfold with a yesterday, today and tomorrow. Each of us feels the story and helps to shape it each day (p. 59).” Photo courtesy of Google image.

  5. Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s social movements for equality for minorities and women as well as protests against the Vietnam War were great social movements of the time. According to Sargent (2009) “ protests against the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons, and nuclear power broadened awareness of how these issues interact with political power and social conflict (p. 279). Photo courtesy of Google image.

  6. “LEARNING OUTCOME TWO: Analyze community systems and structures, and design and evaluate processes to initiate and sustain change through specific strategies, tactics, activities and social policy advocacy” (S. Kincaid, Personal Communication, January 7, 2014). Photo courtesy of google image.

  7. Most people become involved in social movements and advocacy because they are passionate about a cause or making a social change. Homan (2011) recommends specific tactics for advocating before becoming an advocate. Advocates should be informed about the cause or issue in order to create a great argument. Be aware of the regulations and rules surrounding the issue being addressed. Don’t do it alone, find another person who wants to advocate for the same cause. Be informed and ask for help if you need it. Know what you want the end result to look like. Stay focused on the issue. Keep communication open with the parties invested in your advocacy work. Make sure the issue is addressing the mission and goals. Hold people accountable if they agree to help you. Record the agreements (p. 406-407). Photo courtesy of Google image.

  8. Change starts at a community level. Bring attention to an issue or promoting change begins at a local level. According to Wheatley and Frieze (2011) “Because there is story after story after story of small local action that scaled across-without planning, without control-and became large-scale movements. And nobody could have predicted that those small beginnings would lead to great changes (p. 38).” Photos courtesy of Google Image.

  9. “LEARNING OUTCOME THREE: Record, assess, and reflect on experiences with community and the influence of human services values, attitudes, and ethics in relationship to community change” (S. Kincaid, Personal Communication, January 7, 2014). Photo courtesy of Google image.

  10. Throughout the reading of Walk Out Walk On (Wheatley and Frieze, 2011) there were several communities and organizations described in which people promoted their own learning, since of community, and survival with the means they had. The idea of trans-local learning and helping to promote community change was informative. According to Frieze (2011) “we embraced the term trans-local to represent what happens when people carry an idea from one place to another and set it loose in a new local environment, allowing it to emerge into something entirely different (p. 29).” Photos courtesy of Google image.

  11. According to Homan (2011) “Social action can be seen as liberating a community from oppressive conditions and altering power relationships. Community development extends liberation by increasing community capacity to build the power of self-reliance and collaborative relationships. Social action efforts tend to bring people together with an outward focus to change or get the most of what is out there (p. 66).” Having strength and coming together as a community is important for the communities’ survival according to Homan (2011) “if internal strengths and asset development do not occur, the community will function poorly and become dependent on others for its survival (p. 66). Photo courtesy of Google image.

  12. “LEARNING OUTCOME FOUR: Analyze the systemic issues related to culture, diversity, and social classin the context of community systems” (S. Kincaid, Personal Communication, January 7, 2014). Photo courtesy of Google image.

  13. According to Wheatley and Frieze (2011) the leaning community Shikshantar in India set a goal to decrease their budget each year. The method is not traditional, however they have been successful in doing so by changing their culture. “This was accomplished by transitioning many expenses into gift culture, such as workshop space, food for events, and housing for guests; by Deepings their practice of jugaad, thereby reducing their need to purchase items (p. 150).” Photo courtesy of Google image.

  14. Community systems are made up of an eclectic mix of people. Everyone comes together to create a community. Many times the needs of members of communities are not met because their voices are not heard. According to Wheatley and Frieze (2011) the stories compiled in their book are about people who “walked out of a world of unsolvable problems, scarce resources, limiting beliefs and destructive individualism. They’ve walked on to beliefs and practices that solve problems and reveal abundant resources (p. 4)” Photos courtesy of Google image.

  15. Learning outcome from Policy Brief Assignment Images courtesy of Google images.

  16. Policy Brief on Reform of House Bill 1391 The policy brief writing assignment taught me how important policy making and advocacy is to the human Services community. There are millions of people who do not qualify for health insurance because of their residency status. This leaves millions of people at risk of not seeking medical care prevention or delaying medical care until the problem is at a dangerous point. Total universal health care would guarantee adequate care coverage for every man, women and child in the United States. The federal government would also save millions of dollars each year on health care funding for hospitals and medical centers for patients who where not able to pay their bills. This assignment taught me how persuasive writing and stating a clear message with a purpose is to writing a policy brief.

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