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5 Forming Successful Alliances
5 Forming Successful Alliances
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One emphasized the importance of strategic and structural factors; the other emphasized the importance of trust. CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL AND IDEOLOGICAL MOVEMENTS AND ALLIANCES In 1909, an estimated 1.75 million American children between the ages of 10 and 15 were employed, not counting children employed in agriculture, seasonal work, industrial homework, or vacation work.
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The first factor Imig discussed is the triggering of events that illustrate underlying social trends. For example, pediatric X-rays developed in the 1930s often are cited as a critical triggering event in the discovery of unreported fractures in children, which helped launch the modern movement against child abuse and led to nationwide regulations for reporting suspected abuse.
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Preventing childhood obesity fits with the historical concern for child well-being, Imig noted. However, that concern has seldom generated lasting policy changes.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING AUTHENTIC TRUST Trust is not a black and white issue, said Diane Finegood, professor in the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University. It exists along a spectrum, which Finegood partitioned into simple trust, blind trust, cordial hypocrisy, and authentic trust (Solomon and Flores, 2001)
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Finegood listed the identified barriers that have emerged from these meetings, including self-interest and fear, non-constructive criticism and closed-mindedness, stereotypes and misrepresentations, system barriers, conflicting world views, and rigidity. Strategies for building trust include partnership-enabling behaviors, honest interactive communication, reciprocal knowledge from dialogue, a collective orientation, and personal and collective leadership.
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On the opposite end of the spectrum, structural elements include such issues as daily physical education, constraints on food marketing, simplified nutrition labeling, walkable neighborhoods, and affordable healthy food. Assessing Partnerships Finegood has been developing a tool that can help people decide whether to engage in a particular partnership.
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DISCUSSION During the discussion period, Mary Story, professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Minnesota, asked how the child protection movement of the 20th century, which was premised on the idea that government had a responsibility to protect the health and welfare of children, could be reinvigorated for the 21st century, in which protections have eroded in the face of marketing to children and other threats to their health. Robinson said he shared Story's frustration that the child protection movement has not been more successful given that the welfare of children is a core value for so many people.
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He returned to the idea of triggering events, which may be significant not in and of themselves but instead because they frame a long-term trend. World War II was not significant to the child care movement because women were suddenly entering the workforce.
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