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ENagel

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Women in Green Ridge established a women's center to serve battered women and victims of sexual assault, because existing services were not adequate. Later, they also formed a wider community board to oppose violence against women, involving women who have been victims of this violence and physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, clergy, and police. These actions illustrate which two approaches to community and social change?
 
  a. an alternative setting, a community coalition
  b. an alternative setting, social action
  c. community development, organizational consultation
  d. community readiness, policy research and advocacy

Question 2

Women's centers, many mutual help groups, the Community Lodge residences for persons with mental illnesses (Chapter 5), and the Oxford House residences to promote recovery from substance abuse (Chapter 1), all began as examples of what approach to community and social change?
 
  a. community coalitions
  b. alternative settings
  c. community development
  d. organizational consultation



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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