Community Organizing & Alcohol Resources:
A useful handbook for practitioners:
Bobo, K., Kendall, J., & Max, S. (1991). Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990s. Santa Ana, CA, Minneapolis, MN, Washington, DC: Seven Locks Press (1-800-354-5348, PO Box 25689, Santa Ana, CA 92799).
Additional readings:
Alinsky, S.D. (1971). Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. New York: Vintage Books.
Kahn, S. (1991). Organizing: A Guide for Grassroots Leaders. Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers.
Minkler, M., ed. (1997). Community Organizing and Community Building for Health. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press.
This Web site has many useful community organizing tools and resources: http://comm-org.utoledo.edu
Web sites with alcohol policy information:
University of Minnesota Alcohol Epidemiology Program: http://www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol
The Trauma Foundation: http://www.traumafdn.org/
Join Together: http://www.jointogether.org
Center for Science in the Public Interest : http://www.cspinet.org/booze/index.html
California Alcohol Issues Partnership: http://www.atc.ucsd.edu/hec/caip/index.htm
Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs :
http://www.adp.ca.gov/
Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention: http://www.edc.org/hec/
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/
Examples of successful community organizing campaigns:
• Center for Alcohol Advertising : Hands off Halloween
• Tobacco Policy Options for Prevention
• Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol
• Project Northland |
