Learning about Community
The creation of any health promotion organization should start from gaining information about the community in which the primary activities will be focused. The first step is researching the issue of antismoking activities in the chosen community, its history, and earlier actions that were taken in a particular area to address the issue. It also includes the analysis of the possible institutions which can host the creation of such a coalition. Creating such a project independently is irrational because it will be challenging to build the community around the health promotion program from scratch. It would be more rational to find a supporting, well-known community organization. The second step is to search for the possible stakeholders ready to support such a program. The search area can also be centered on analyzing the institutions which can provide material support. The third step is to analyze the target audience, its ethnicity, race, and socioeconomic status to define the reliability of the concepts to the chosen community. The last step is considering the limitations related to the geographic boundaries and legal aspects of coalition creation.
Building Trust
Entrancing the new community is realized through establishing the four steps of trust: contractual, communication, competency, and caring. The first one is related to ensuring the awareness of the community about the project through, for example, local social media. The second addresses the implementation of a clear communicational strategy to improve the community’s comprehension of the project’s aims and goals. It also includes the establishment of the ideas exchange with the members of the community, improving participation. The competence trust is related to providing the training for the recruited personnel performing the activities of the project. The last step, ensuring care trust, includes the creation of a physical place where volunteers can be welcomed and gain necessary information regarding the coalition.
Cultural Competence’s Characteristics
The primary aim of cultural competence is to ensure that racial, economic, ethnic, and social differences do not interfere with the implementation of the project within the community. Its importance is defined by the primary aim of the public healthcare worker to provide community-oriented services. The antismoking coalition is centered on improving the quality of life and increasing awareness of the people disregarding their cultural differences. The characteristics of cultural diversity as it is implemented and interacted with the community include three aspects (Henderson et al., 2018). The first one is hiring culturally diverse staff helping to serve the community. The second principle is fairness in retention, promotion, and support provision for all workers and members of the community. The last direction includes the training for the personnel focused on the development of cross-cultural skills.
Christ’s Teachings and Cultural Competency
The total acceptance of Christ can be interpreted in the scope of cultural competence. Christ sacrificed himself for the sake of all people disregarding culture, race, social status, or ethnicity. He advanced the ultimate love, which is the central principle that can be adapted to interact with diverse groups without judgments. The ultimate acceptance and love of the people is the aspect that can be brought from Christ’s teaching. The cultural integration and competency can be seen from the perspective of total acceptance of difference due to the concept of ultimate God’s love.
Community’s Awareness and Buy-In
As was mentioned earlier, informing the community can be proposed through social media or allocating the advertisement. It would be especially relevant to share the information through the topic-related institutions. In the case of the antismoking coalition, the healthcare institutions’ resources should be used to increase the awareness of the community. Considering getting buy-in, the three aspects should be mentioned. Buy-in is used to gain the support of the target audience or congregation. To do so, any project should formulate a clear vision and objectives. The integration of the improvement ideas offered by others can also be mentioned as an efficient strategy. Such an approach will help to establish trustful and supporting relationships with the community. The last factor is gaining feedback to improve the quality of the initial idea. It can be done by communicating the progress of the project’s particular activities.
Conflict Management Strategies
There are two types of conflicts that can occur with the stakeholders: cognitive and interest. The first one is related to the inconsistencies of beliefs of the project creators and stakeholders. In order to solve such a conflict, both sides should focus on the opposite position to find common ground through discussion. The collaborating strategy can be used to solve cognitive conflicts. (Basogul, 2020). The second one is related to the difficulties in organizational issues which do not correspond with the stakeholders’ expectations. The negotiations should be implemented to find a compromise. The compromising conflict management strategy can be used in such a case (Basogul, 2020). The fostering of collaboration within the scope of such a project can be achieved through the strategy of reducing conflict. The conflicts are the primary problem disturbing the collaboration.
References
Basogul, C. (2020). Conflict management and teamwork in workplace from the perspective of nurses.Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 57(2), 610–619.
Henderson, S., Hons, H., & Horne, M. (2018). Cultural competence in healthcare in the community: A concept analysis.Health & Social Care in the Community, 26(4), 590–603.