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Running head: RELS101 2

Discussion - Community Building

Building Resilient Communities: A Moral Responsibility | Nick Tilsen | TEDxRapidCity (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Re-KrQNa4

Review the video on Building Resilient Communities. Answer the following: 

1) Summarize Nick Tilsen's key points of building resilient communities. What are challenges and potential strategies for effectively building sustainable communities, even those among vulnerable populations? 

2) In discussing community organization, empowerment is a common theme. What role does public health play in "empowering" vulnerable populations in the community organizing and building process?

3) What are the limits to public health practitioners' ability to alleviate health disparities that exist?

4) Who is best positioned to organize communities in effort to building community health initiatives? Identify a potential community building efforts (to support a health initiative, however you choose to define it) and identify important stakeholders necessary to organize, build, and sustain the communities efforts.