Center for Community Health Transformation Resources

Resources

The DeKalb County Board of Health's Center for Community Health Transformation has a number of resources available for people interested in learning more about community health transformation.

 

Links

The DeKalb County Board of Health Center for Community Health Transformation is currently compiling a comprehensive list of links. Below is a list of a few links, but it is far from complete. If you would like to the center to link to your organization's send an e-mail to info@dekalbhealth.net. Please check back soon for updates.

Clarkston Community Center
http://www.clarkstoncommunitycenter.org

City of Clarkston
http://www.cityofclarkston.com

Paulo Freire
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm

 

Training Opportunities
Transformation for Health


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Community members' participation in deciding their own paths empowers them and results in action solutions to which they have a commitment.

The Center for Community Health Transformation works with public health professionals to build a listening framework so that community members can speak openly and safely regarding their environment, its challenges and opportunities, and new paths for the future.

Experience shows that participation and empowerment are based on skills that must be learned. Public health professionals will learn these skills by being engaged in a process of listening, dialogue, reflection and action.

Transformation for Health workshop participants learn how to:

  • Listen so that people will speak.
  • Listen for key themes in others' environment.
  • Educate by posing problems so that people will discover their own solutions.
  • Formulate action solutions for which others take responsibility.
The process used in the Transformation for Health workshop is based on the work of Paulo Freire, a twentieth century Brazilian educator who developed a transformative and liberating educational method for working with limited-resource and oppressed people.