Supports
1. Define the community and identify problems or goals the group is interested in addressing.
- Identify the community of place, experience, and/or interest to focus the group's efforts.
- Identify the broad issues the group will address in the community to focus the analysis and assessment of information.
Core Supports:
- Our Model for Community Change and Improvement
- Community Action Guide: A Framework for Addressing Community Goals and Problems
- Assessing Community Needs and Resources
- Developing a Plan for Identifying Local Needs and Resources
- Understanding and Describing the Community
- Collecting Information about the Problem
- Analyzing Community Problems
- Conducting Focus Groups
- Conducting Needs Assessment Surveys
- Identifying Community Assets and Resources
- Qualitative Methods to Assess Community Issues
- Geographic Information Systems: Tools for Community Mapping
- Leading a Community Dialogue on Building a Healthy Community
- Developing a Strategic Plan
- An Overview of Strategic Planning of “VMOSA” (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans)
- Creating Objectives
2. Engage local people and other key stakeholders in analyzing information about the problem.
- Provide an opportunity for local people and other stakeholders with varied interests to participate in analyzing the issue.
Core Supports:
- Our Model for Community Change and Improvement
- Working Together for Healthier Communities: A Framework for Collaboration among Community Partnerships, Support Organizations, and Funders
- Assessign Community Needs and Resources
- Conducting Public Forums and Listening Sessions
- Getting Issues on the Public Agenda
- Developing a Plan for Getting Community Health and Development Issues on the Local Agenda
- Communicating Information about Community Health and Development Issues
- Gaining Public Support for Addressing Community Health and Development Issues
- Making Community Presentations
- Communications to Promote Interest
- Encouraging Involvement in Community Work
- Introduction to Evaluation
- Community-based Participatory Research
- Participatory Evaluation
3. Collect and assess information about the extent of the problem or goal and its importance within the community.
- Collect and assess information about the history and context of the community and its importance to the problem or goal.
- Collect and assess information about the extent of the problem or goal and its importance to the community and key stakeholders.
- Populations affected by the problem have been identified and engaged in assessing its importance.
- The group has identified and assessed the consequences of the problem for people affected by it.
Core Supports:
- Assessing Community Needs and Resources
- Conducting Public Forums and Listening Sessions
- Collecting Information about the Problem
- Analyzing Community Problems
- Some Methods for Evaluating Community Intervention
- Gathering Information: Monitoring Your Progress
4. Identify the key behaviors of whom and related environmental factors that affect them.
- Identify whose behavior needs to change to affect the immediate problem or conditions contributing to the problem.
- Identify personal factors and environmental factors that put people at risk for (or protect them from) the problem.
Core Supports:
- Our Model for Community Change and Improvement
- Working Together for Healthier Communities: A Framework for Collaboration among Partnerships, Support Organizations, and Funders
- Some Other Models for Promoting Community Health and Development
- PRECEDE/PROCEED
- Getting Issues on the Public Agenda
- Talking about Risk and Protective Factors Related to Community Health
- Analyzing Community Problems and Solutions
- Analyzing Root Causes of Problems: The “But Why?” Technique
- Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Development
- Working Together for Racial Justice and Inclusion
- Understanding Culture and Diversity in Building Communities
- Learning to be an Ally for People from Diverse Groups and Backgrounds
- Creating Opportunities for Members of Groups to Identify Their Similarities, Differences, and Assets
- Multicultural Collaboration
- Transforming Conflicts in Diverse Communities
- Understanding Cultures, Social Organization, and Leadership to Enhance Engagement
- Introduction to Evaluation
- A Framework for Program Evaluation: A Gateway to Tools
5. Identify resources and barriers to addressing the problem or goal.
- The group has identified potential barriers or resistance to addressing the problem or goal.
- The group has identified organizational or community resources/assets that can be used to help address the problem or goal.
Core Supports:
- Our Model for Community Change and Improvement
- Our Evaluation Model: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- Assessing Community Needs and Resources
- Developing a Plan for Identifying Local Needs and Resources
- Conducting Public Forums and Listening Sessions
- Analyzing Community Problems
- Choosing Strategies to Promote Community Health and Development
- Orienting Ideas in Leadership
- Recognizing the Challenges of Leadership
- Improving Services
- Developing and Increasing Access to Health and Community Services
- Working Together for Racial Justice and Inclusion
- Strategies in Activities for Reducing Racial Prejudices and Racism
- Building Culturally Competent Organizations
- Transforming Conflicts in Diverse Communities
- Understanding Culture, Social Organization, and Leadership to Enhance Engagement
- Social Marketing of Successful Components of the Initiative
- Conducting a Social Marketing Campaign
- Planning for Long-Term Institutionalization
- Sharing Positions and Other Resources
6. Identify the promising interventions that address the key factors affecting the problem or goal.
- Provide an opportunity for local people and other key stakeholders to propose potential solutions for addressing the problem/goal.
- Review evidence of the effectiveness of promising approaches and consider whether what worked elsewhere might work well in the local situation.
Core Supports:
- Our Model for Community Change and Improvement
- Our Evaluation Model: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- Other Models for Promoting Community Health and Development
- Developing a Logic Model of Theory of Change
- PRECEDE/PROCEED
- Group Facilitation and Problem-Solving
- Developing Facilitation Skills
- Analyzing Community Problems and Solutions
- Generating and Choosing Solutions
- Choosing and Adapting Community Interventions
- Improving Services
- Promoting Coordination, Cooperative Agreements, and Collaborative Agreements Among Agencies
7. Use the analysis in developing, adapting, and evaluating the approach for addressing the problem or goal.
- The group uses or references the assessment or analysis of the problem or goal to inform or support decision-making.
- The data or information collected in the assessment or analysis is used in evaluating the efforts of the initiative or group.
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