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The 6-Step Model for Community Empowerment: Revisited in Public Housing Communities for Low-Income Senior Citizens

Seunghyun Yoo, DrPH

Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, syoo{at}pitt.edu

James Butler, DrPH

Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Thistle I. Elias, MPA

Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Robert M. Goodman, PhD

School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana

The 6-step community empowerment model was replicated in communities with different geographical, racial, and age backgrounds from the original application. Resident groups of Blue Ribbon Health Panels (BRHPs) in federally funded senior housing in Pennsylvania followed the 6 steps to identify community health issues, to develop strategies to address priority issues, and to implement the strategies in collaboration with partner agencies. The 6-step model served as an operationalization strategy of community empowerment by facilitating quick accomplishments of communities' desired outcomes, legitimizing and motivating BRHP efforts. Community capacities to actively participate and collaborate influenced the model's progress in this replication study, as did partner agencies' capacities to adhere to the community-based participatory and collaborative orientation of the project. Community capacity development and partnership facilitation would be important for a community empowerment project, as well as consistent and clear communication among everyone involved in the process.

Key Words: community empowerment • community capacity development • community-based participatory research • community partnership • social ecological model • healthy aging

This version was published on April 1, 2009

Health Promotion Practice, Vol. 10, No. 2, 262-275 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1524839907307884
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