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18 Chapter 3: The Healthy Community Approach INTRODUCTION A healthy community is much like a healthy person. All the parts must be healthy, all aspects must be working together, and all the processes must be functioning correctly. Creating a healthy community is like baking a cake. It can be of any flavor, but it must have all the essential ingredients in the community for it to rise and bake correctly. It is up to the community to determine its particular flavor, look and taste. But the essential ingredients for the cake must be available in the community or it will flop. The essentials must be maintained or a community will be dependent upon someone else to bake a good cake. Ingredients from the outside are OK for the icing, but not for the basic parts. As we shall see in the web of community, looking at the whole of the community and how everything fits together is a key to determining what creates and maintains health in your community. Just like people, all communities are different and need different health regimens to stay healthy. We have spent a lot of time discovering individual health, but far too little on community health. It takes even more time and effort to look at the complex nature of communities and understand about how they function. The healthy community approach is a way to learn about and care for our community. It requires discipline, energy, and hard work. But it will all be worth it when we have the kind of community we all want to live in. It is up to every community to define and maintain community health as they see it, not as those from outside the community would have it be. Community health is a function of local determination and should not be dictated by outside forces. What is a Healthy Community to You–Common Answers Alcohol and drug free Care providers Connectedness Job training Spirituality Involvement Respect Own economic development Cooperation Potlatches/Eskimo dancing Teamwork Volunteer/civic duty Acceptance Sharing Healthy family structures Keeping language alive Kids in school Communication In touch with culture Keeping traditional activities Respect For Elders (role models) and leaders Living values Peer helpers Section I: Introduction–Basic Concepts
HEALTHY COMMUNITY APPROACH–THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND • Communities are living beings • Communities need to be healthy too • Every community is different • Build on uniqueness • An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure • Define the health of your community • Discover your community • It’s up to everyone in your community to keep it healthy The end of Section I Section I: Introduction–Basic Concepts 19
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Chapter 5: Leadership INTRODUCTION
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COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE Introduction A
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MEETING EVALUATION Please circle th
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WHO • can help? • must we “Se
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ACTION PLAN FOR ATTAINING GOALS A s
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Chapter 4: Final Thoughts THE HEART
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Appendix—References A. Paul Hare,
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Fessler, D. R., Facilitating Commun
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Mezirow, J. D., Dynamics of Communi
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Staff, Introduction to Rural and Co
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