Community Defined Health : How to Discover Local Assets, Build Community, and Create Health
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Overview
For ten years, a public health administrator and a nursing school dean left the comfort of their offices to walk the streets of Saginaw, Michigan's Cathedral District -- a neighborhood written off by outsiders as broken. What they found instead was a community rich in stories, skill, and quiet resilience, waiting to be asked the right questions.
Community Defined Health(TM) is the story of what happened when they stopped delivering solutions and started listening. Authors Lisa G. Hadden and Janalou Blecke, together with contributors Dylan Sagan and Jeffrey Bookmyer, take readers inside a movement that redefined what "health" means -- not through clinical data, but through neighbors' own knowledge of what keeps them well.
Part memoir, part hands-on guide, this book traces the six-step CDH(TM) process from its origins as a grant-funded pilot to its lasting influence on nursing education and neighborhood organizing decades later. For anyone who works with communities -- as a nurse, social worker, organizer, or educator -- this is a book about what becomes possible when you show up not with answers, but with respect.
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- ISBN-13: 9781972620328
- ISBN-10: 1972620320
- Publisher: Empower Press
- Publish Date: March 2027
- Page Count: 220
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