Online Videos for Community & Administrative Practice (updated)

This is a list compiled by Professor Dick Schoech of the School of Social Work, University of Texas Arlington. He received these suggestions from members of COMM-ORG and ACOSA. Ten of these videos are available on YouTube, and I’ve organized them into this a playlist, which you can play (in the order listed) by clicking on the video below, or by viewing the series on youtube . Other videos which are available online, but not on YouTube, are also linked below. Several recommended videos are not available online. They may be available in stores, or at a library near you, so I’ve linked to WorldCat entries, when I could find them there. There’s a longer list of videos here and in this playlist of videos on community & engagement.

Shinichi Murota Doshisha University, Japan

• Make the Road NY is probably the most active and powerful grassroots organization in NYC today.
• Time’s Up is a bicycle rider’s organization whose activity is basically a public ride to advocate for greener streets and riders friendly urban planning.
• Common Ground is a famous community development project for homeless. Their approach is not quite “social work” per say, but they have made some impacts in the community.

Ben MacConnell, Direct Action & Research Training Center

• DART just posted a new video on community organizing. It also serves as decent intro for a new observer, so I thought it may be of use to you.

David William Rothwell

• I recently watched a panel discussion on the Community Reinvestment Act that is posted on UNC Center for Poverty, Work and Opportunity. Any community practice effort should be informed of the CRA. (Note: This is an iTunes movie and may require you to open iTunes to play the movie. Try various browsers if one fails.)

Rich Wood – Lots of resources via PICO website as well, some written some video, see:

• http://www.organizingcareers.org/videos?id=0001
• http://www.piconetwork.org/congregations/reflections
• http://www.cofionline.org/about_cofi.php?id=29

Dick Schoech, UT Arlington

• Online Volunteering
• Building Enduring Communities: Development, property management, and residence- and community-based human services, nonprofit affordable housing social services.
• The Charlie Rose show has great interviews with current thinkers and doers. For example, this conversation with Michael Milken & Muhammad Yunus about World poverty.
• Tracy J. Browns explains the Nine Essential Internal Controls that every Faith Based or Community Organization must have.
• Circles of Caring
• The Secret to Getting Things Right (audio) How did the humblest tool for organizing data reduce complications in surgical practice, streamline restaurant operations, and minimize the risks of venture capital? An hour with Harvard Medical School professor Atul Gawande, author of “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right”. I found the discussion very relevant since human services folks routinely handle a lot of complex situations. Almost all the conclusions on the failure to prevent child abuse by CPS come to a failure to do things due to fatigue, lack of training, etc. We could use more checklists in our field to insure we get things right.

Videos Not Online

Elizabeth Beck

• I use something called Holding Ground about Dudley Street or Streets of Hope to show Rothman’s three approaches,
• I use Bill Moyers interview with Myles Horton (vol 2) to show community participation, adult education and pedagogy of the oppressed
• I use a Philip Randolph which is 90 minutes called something like Jobs and Freedom to show among others things coalition building.

Christina Erickson

• A Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay
• Unnatural Causes
• The story of stuff [also on youtube]

Nicole Nicotera, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver

• I like to use Holding Ground about the Dudley Street neighborhood initiative near Boston MA.
• There is also a book about their process called, Streets of Hope by Medoff and Sklar (1994) South End Press.
• Another DVD that may be useful, but I have not used in class myself is called “I am a Promise.”

Karen Gray, Asst Professor, OU-Tulsa School of Social Work, Tulsa, OK 74135

• From the bottom up
• The fire next time
• Recruiting new members
• It was a wonderful life
• Building hope
• The Forgotten Americans
• Eyes on the Prize: Bridge to Freedom
• Bread and Roses
• Holding Ground
• The Democratic Promise

Dick Schoech, UT Arlington

• The Heart of Bassett Place: W. Gertrude Brown and the Wheatley House. Historical.
• Case study of community practice in an African-American community.
• Running Good Meetings (12 minutes) A humorous overview the basics of running meetings.
• Bill Moyers interview with Ernie Cortez, a community organizer in San Antonio, TX
• Mobilizing Community Assets. Kretzmann, J, & McKnight, J. (1993), the only video I know that argues that you have to take a capacity building approach to community practice to be effective.
• The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and his Legacy. 50 min.
• The Deming of America: Interview with TQM founder E. Deming TQM as presented by its founder is very applicable to the human services.

Others mentioned

• Fight in the Fields is a great movie for teaching organizing
• One night of fire about activists creating an underground street party in nyc.
• Thirst
• Shape of Water
• Twilight LA
• This black soil
• The Milagro Bean Field War
• Bullfrog films has a number of good ones. “The Philadelphia Story“, looks promising.