Check out the many
innovative and exciting actions
the capacity building projects
have accomplished!
No discussion of improving people's health and well being can be made without
looking at health and social inequities in the context of the global economic
structures that create this inequity. No solution to dismantle these inequities
can be made without the full involvement and leadership of those communities
impacted most by the social and economic injustice that the global economy
promotes.
Tobacco control efforts have move away from projects that focus solely on changing
individual behavior (helping smokers quit or education teens not to start) to projects
that mobilize community members and agencies to change environmental factors such as
tobacco advertising, promotion, and illegal access to tobacco by minors, that promote
unhealthy behaviors.
The Tobacco Free Project has been funding community based agencies to implement
community capacity building projects that address the environmental factors associated
with the global tobacco epidemic.
The CCB
process (also called the Community Action Model (CAM)) creates change by building
community capacity. The process is asset based and builds on the strengths or
capacity of a community to create change from within and mobilize community
members and agencies to change environmental factors promoting economic and
environmental inequalities. Fundamental to this model is a critical analysis
that identifies the underlying social, economic, and environmental forces
creating the health and social inequalities that the community wants to
address. The
CAM curriculum is available online. A companion piece - Adapting the
CAM to your Workplan, Project, Issue has been developed in
English,
Spanish and
Chinese.
The intent of the CCB/CAM process is to work in collaboration with communities and
provide a framework for community members to acquire the skills and resources to
investigate the health of the place where they live and then plan, implement and
evaluate actions that change the environment to promote and improve health.
How does the CCB/CAM process work? Check out
these
examples:
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For more information contact the San Francisco Tobacco Free
Project,
30 Van Ness Avenue, #2300, San Francisco, California, USA 94102.
Telephone: 415-581-2448 Fax: 415-581-2492
Email: Mele Lau
Email: Susana Hennessey Lavery