Turning the Tide on Poverty: Community champions as critical elements of success in economically distressed communities

Worthy, Sheri Lokken; Downey, Laura; Dyk, Patricia Hyjer; Monroe, Pamela; Tyler-Mackey, Crystal; Welborn, Rachel

doi:10.1080/15575330.2016.1167096

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“…Community champions are individuals within a community who voluntarily take on a role of passionate advocacy and leadership for an idea or project, and leverage their networks to expand support [ 22 ]. Champions catalyze the building and strengthening of local partnerships and are key to sustaining the Live 5-2-1-0 initiative within a community.…”

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Propagating Change: Using RE-FRAME to Scale and Sustain A Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative

Kennedy

Pinkney

Suleman

et al. 2019

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Sustainable Childhood Obesity Prevention through Community Engagement (SCOPE) has developed Live 5-2-1-0, a multi-sectoral, multi-component community-based childhood obesity prevention initiative grounded in systems thinking and participatory research principles. Building on previous work, this study continued implementation of an innovative knowledge exchange model, RE-FRAME, in two ‘new’ and two ‘existing’ Live 5-2-1-0 communities. This mixed-methods study examined follow-up data to determine the nature and extent of the model’s ability to build and sustain community capacity and facilitate the scale-up and sustainability of systems- and community-level change. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected using stakeholder interviews, and quantitative process tracking (PTT) and capacity building tools (CCBT), and were analyzed using thematic analysis and descriptive statistics, respectively. Results from three communities with baseline and follow-up CCBT data showed capacity domain scores increased (15/27; 56%) or remained constant (10/27; 37%) over the study period. PTT data showed over 50 multi-sectoral community partnerships formed in Community D (new) and 108 actions implemented. Stakeholder interviews identified having a common cause, co-ownership, champion networks and consistency of the Live 5-2-1-0 message as essential to sustainability of the initiative. RE-FRAME supports knowledge exchange and community capacity-building that is integral to initiating and sustaining a community-based childhood obesity prevention initiative.

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Propagating Change: Using RE-FRAME to Scale and Sustain A Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative

Kennedy

Pinkney

Suleman

et al. 2019

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“…We identify champions in our context as emergent (Worthy et al, 2016). In contrast to some program interventions such as in health (Harrison and Mort, 1998;Hendy and Barlow, 2012), they are not recruited.…”

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“…Individual champions are recognized in several fields, particularly in organizational management (e.g., Howell et al, 2005;Taylor et al, 2011), but also in health (Harrison and Mort, 1998;Hendy and Barlow, 2012), environment and natural resource management (Taylor, 2008;Gattiker and Charter, 2010;Markusson, 2010;Reid et al, 2010;Measham et al, 2011;Taylor et al, 2012;Miles, 2013;Lindsay et al, 2019), energy (Axon et al, 2018;Martiskainen and Kivimaa, 2018), community development (Johnstone and Campbell-Jones, 2003;Vail, 2007;Worthy et al, 2016), and among not-for-profit organizations (Chapman et al, 2010).…”

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Community champions of ecosystem services: The role of local agency in protecting Indonesian coral reefs

Abdurrahim¹,

Adhuri²,

Ross

et al. 2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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The importance of communities is well recognized in the protection and enhancement of ecosystem services (ES), yet the influences of individuals within and on communities are often overlooked. Individual and community agency are pertinent in small-scale fisheries, given that livelihoods of many millions of these fishers worldwide depend on ES derived from coral reefs and seagrass beds. In eastern Indonesia the rapid spread of destructive fishing practices has serious impacts on these marine and coastal ecosystems. Policy is complex, with three levels of government involved, and communities also seeking to apply customary marine management and fishing rules. Effective deterrence and enforcement prove difficult for both communities and government, especially in remote places. Community-based marine protected areas, and government or aid-led educational programs, are attempted, but are insufficient against the pressures of well-organized illegal fishing supply chains. On Selayar Island, in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia, certain local “champions,” fishers and others exerting influence within their communities, and “island champions (IC),” individuals working at island level from local government and non-government roles, are developing their own—often unorthodox—strategies to mobilize social change to protect ES. Through in-depth interviews supported by participant observation we investigated how these individuals become motivated, and how they operate to protect local ecosystems such as coral reefs and seagrass meadows. We document what inspired them, what strategies they follow, their observations on barriers, and their key messages for others. Understanding these very unofficial, individual and small-group processes that occur outside conventional policy-making and ecosystem governance can allow sharing of effective strategies to encourage potential champions elsewhere, and support community agency in protecting marine ES.

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“…presented a challenge that could have also affected the use of the mHealth tool. Early identification of community champions has been previously studied as an approach to develop and increase trust between community members and investigators, facilitating an engaging process and a successful community-based research intervention [ 79 - 81 ].…”

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Attitudes Toward the Environment and Use of Information and Communication Technologies to Address Environmental Health Risks in Marginalized Communities: Prospective Cohort Study

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Background Information and communication technologies, including mobile health (mHealth), can help isolated communities address environmental health challenges. The Puerto Rican island of Culebra has faced multiple sociopolitical and economic factors that have distressed the island’s environment and health. Culebrenses are technologically engaged and have demonstrated a use of technology that transcends socioeconomic barriers. As a result, technological interventions could potentially help manage environmental risks on the island. Objective This study aims to test and evaluate the potential benefits of an mHealth tool, termed ¡mZAP! (Zonas, Acción y Protección), for engaging communities with environmental risks through technology. Methods Participants using ¡mZAP! (N=111) were surveyed. Bivariate analyses were used to examine associations of mHealth use with sociodemographics, technology use, an adapted environmental attitudes inventory, and the multidimensional health locus of control. Logistic regression was used to examine associations between attitudes toward environmental health risks and mHealth use. Results Higher positive attitudes toward the environment were significantly associated with the use of ¡mZAP! (odds ratio 5.3, 95% CI 1.6-17.0). Environmental attitudes were also associated with the multidimensional health locus of control powerful others subscale (P=.02), indicating that attitudes toward the environment become more negative as feelings controlled by others increase. Participants felt that the authorities would resolve the challenges (63/111, 56.7%). Conclusions Perceived lack of control could present barriers to collective actions to address salient environmental health challenges in communities. The ongoing dependency on government-based solutions to community problems is worrisome, especially after the hurricane experiences of 2017 (which may potentially continue to be an issue subsequent to the more recent 2020 earthquakes).

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Turning the Tide on Poverty: Community champions as critical elements of success in economically distressed communities

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

Propagating Change: Using RE-FRAME to Scale and Sustain A Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative

Propagating Change: Using RE-FRAME to Scale and Sustain A Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative

Community champions of ecosystem services: The role of local agency in protecting Indonesian coral reefs

Attitudes Toward the Environment and Use of Information and Communication Technologies to Address Environmental Health Risks in Marginalized Communities: Prospective Cohort Study

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