Promoting community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources
REFLECTION QUESTIONS:
COMMUNITY TOOL BOX RESOURCES:
1. Do we know who our opponents are and why they oppose us?
Chapter 30, Section 5: Identifying Opponents
Chapter 31, Section 4: Studying the Opposition
2. Do we know what tactics they are using to oppose us?
Chapter 35, Section 1: Overview of Opposition Tactics: Recognizing the Ten D’s
3. Do we have a plan for addressing resistance or opposition?
Chapter 35: Responding to Counterattacks
Chapter 8, Section 4: Developing Successful Strategies: Planning to Win
Chapter 20, Section 6: Training for Conflict Resolution
Chapter 30, Section 2: Survival Skills for Advocates
Chapter 32, Section 5: Reframing the Issue
4. Is our group unified and sufficiently free of internal conflicts?
Chapter 15: Becoming an Effective Manager
Chapter 6, Section 19: Handling Crises in Communication
Chapter 9, Section 2: Choosing a Group to Create and Run Your Initiative
Chapter 15, Section 4: Promoting Internal Communication
5. Do we have processes in place for resolving conflicts?
Chapter 10, Section 5: Developing Personnel Policies
Chapter 15, Section 2: Providing Supervision for Staff and Volunteers
Chapter 20, Section 6: Training for Conflict Resolution:
6. Have we gotten our message out accurately and to enough people?
Chapter 4: Getting Issues on the Public Agenda
Chapter 6: Promoting Interest in Community Issues
Chapter 33: Conducting a Direct Action Campaign
Chapter 34: Media Advocacy
Chapter 4, Section 2: Communicating Information About Community Health and Development Issues
Chapter 4, Section 5: Making Community Presentations
Chapter 6, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Communication
Chapter 32, Section 4: Providing Corrective Feedback
Chapter 34, Section 1: Working with the Media
Chapter 34, Section 6: Changing the Media’s Perspective on Community Issues
7. Have we formed an adequate response message to direct toward the resistance or opposition?
Chapter 35, Section 2: How to Respond to Opposition Tactics
8. Have we taken adequate steps to get that response message out into the community?
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