ABSTRACT
Healthy neighborhoods and communities are essential for healthy individuals and families to thrive. One mechanism for promoting healthy neighborhoods and communities is intergenerational community organizing and social action. Individuals of all ages have a role in the process of strengthening their neighborhoods and communities. This chapter discusses the opportunities and mechanisms, which are available and needed, for engaging multiple generations of African Americans in the community organizing process. It further highlights a discussion on the basic tenets of community organizing, the Afrocentric worldview, and intergenerational programming, and presents a model for intergenerational community organizing with AfricanAmerican communities.
