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Module II - C
Concurrent Workshops:
Building and Sustaining the Partnerships-Introduction

Major Sections

Day and Time

Purpose

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. Describe for other team members one tool or process for assessing or developing the partnership's capacity to work together.
   
   
2. Collectively identify key areas for internal organizational development.

Linkages with Preceding and Following Sessions

Equipment, Materials, and Supplies Needed

• Easel, newsprint, markers, and masking tape in each workshop room
  
  
• Transparencies
  
  
  • None
  
  
• Prepared Newsprint
  
  
  • None
  
  
• Handouts
  
  
  • HO-1: Workshop Information Sheet
  • Other handouts as noted in each workshop
  
  
• Trainer Supplements
  
  
  • None

Materials in Participant Manuals

• Transparencies
  
  
  • None
  
  
• Handouts
  
  
  • HO-1: Workshop Information Sheet
  • Other handouts as noted in each workshop

Room Setup

Predelivery Preparation

Trainer Resources

• Feighery, E., and T. Rogers. Building and maintaining effective coalitions. (1990). How-to guide on community health promotion. Guide #12. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Health Promotion Resource Center, Stanford University.
  
  
• Prestby, J.E., and A. Wandersman. (1985). An empirical exploration of a framework of organizational viability: Maintaining block organizations. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 21:287-305.
  
  
• Shea, S., and C.E. Bash. (1990). A review of five major community-based cardiovascular disease prevention programs. Part I: Rationale, design, and theoretical framework. © 1990, American Journal of Health Promotion. 43:203-213.
  
  Trainer Note: This is a general introduction that can be used for all the workshops in this unit.
  
  
  

  I. Introduction (Lecture, 5 min.)

  Directions

  A. Explain that all the workshops presented this afternoon provide skills or information necessary for building a partnership and keeping it healthy.

  B. Present the following basic principles for building partnerships. (Mention that these have been adapted from CSAP's research reported in the Framework for Community Prevention System Development and from Tom Wolff's work with coalitions in Massachusetts.)

  Content Points
  
  Partnerships need to:
  
  
  1. Have clear leadership;
     
     
  2. Attend to group process and group maintenance issues;
     
     
  3. Have clear goals, directions, and tasks;
     
     
  4. Have a vision, but also work in promising areas that bring early successes-success builds on success;
     
     
  5. Start with issues of mutual concern;
     
     
  6. Make their activities fun, supportive, and affirming;
     
     
  7. Tolerate conflict, and have a process in place to deal with it;
     
     
  8. Embrace diversity, and intentionally work toward cultural competence;
     
     
  9. Keep an optimistic bias;
     
     
  10. Base all activities on local needs;
      
      
  11. Ensure that membership is inclusive-anyone who can buy into the mission can be a part of the team;
      
      
  12. Understand that the community must define itself; and do so clearly;
      
      
  13. Be committed to action; and
      
      
  14. Know that prevention work takes time and persistence.
  
  Directions

  C. Ask participants to refer to HO-1 as a guideline for taking notes on the workshop to present to their team (HO-1: Workshop Information Sheet).

  D. Proceed with presenting the workshop.