The purpose of this session is to present some tools that partnership members
can use to examine important aspects of community development and mobilization.
These tools provide a means through which partnerships can develop a collective
view of and assess important aspects of their communities. Although requiring
little investment of time and effort, these tools can produce powerful
benefits to the partnerships and their communities. They can be used to
focus the partnerships on ensuring community ownership and sustained support
for grassroots community prevention efforts.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
Describe some tools and processes that their partnership could use for
involving various communities more fully, generating community ownership,
and sustaining support for community initiatives.
Identify ways their partnership might employ community assessment tools
and processes back home.
Linkages with Preceding and Following Sessions
In Unit 4A, the partnerships were introduced to community mobilization
as a way of assessing community needs and generating community involvement.
This unit will provide the partnerships with an opportunity to try out
some techniques of mobilization that they may introduce in their own communities.
Because the tools provide ways for the teams to help their partnerships
develop a collective vision of their communities, the unit has important
links to reentry planning.
Materials in Participant Manuals
Transparencies
None
Handouts
HO-1: Interview Form
HO-2: Community Prevention Readiness Index
HO-4: Community Prevention Readiness Discussion Guide
HO-5: Assessing Community Ownership Potential Grid
