This section allows teams to explore their partnership's prevention philosophy and to apply the information presented in the previous session to their plans for their partnership. Since a large amount of material was covered in the previous session, this time is also focused on making sure the whole team understood the material.
This session gives participants an opportunity to apply the concepts and research findings presented in the previous session. It helps form a prevention philosophy that will be used as a part of the planning process throughout the Institute.
A. Ask for questions raised by the previous session. Involve everyone in the discussion of answers.
B. Ask a team member with a good understanding of the partnership and grant application process to talk about the prevention philosophy of the initiators of the partnership.
Trainer Note: There are at least 3 options for this session. Use as many as seem appropriate.
Directions
A. Option 1. Ask members to use the picture of prevention the team drew in the last session and HO-1 to develop a shared definition of prevention (HO-1: Selected Definitions of Prevention).
B. Option 2. Ask members to use HO-2 to identify segments of the community and identify which of the 6 prevention strategies exist to serve each segment. This will identify gaps in service that the partnership can use for its planning process (HO-2: Prevention Planning Cube).
C. Option 3. The team can continue to work on identifying segments for the community wheel. This may require several copies of the wheel to get them all written down. They can also break down each category to list specific groups, organizations, or individuals in each segment (HO-3: Community Wheel).
D. Option 4. If members have a lot of questions about prevention research, simply continue the discussion that opened this session.
A. Summarize what was accomplished in this session, or ask a team member to summarize.
B. Remind participants that after lunch they will be attending the concurrent workshops and need to have at least one team member at each workshop. Tell participants that they will be sharing the content of the workshop with other team members, so it is helpful to take notes.
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