The purpose of this unit is to allow each team member the opportunity to bring what he or she learned individually at the concurrent workshops to the other team members, and thereby to give all teams a wide range of resources for reaching out to their communities. The unit provides a forum for teams to integrate their learning in the concurrent workshops. Team members get a chance to speak with one another and to deepen their sense of the ways in which their partnership can increase community involvement in their work.
Describe 2 or 3 ideas or tools presented at the workshop they attended to others on their team.
Suggest 3 ways in which they, as individuals and as members of the team, might use the ideas, tools, and concepts presented with their partnerships back home.
This unit is based on the workshops directly preceding it. It leads to Units 5B and 5C, which concern reentry planning and in which the participants will map out how they will use the information back home.
A. Refer participants to HO-1. If they have not yet filled it out, ask them to take 5 minutes to do so now. Those who have already completed HO-1 may want to write notes on newsprint (HO-1: Workshop Information Sheet).
B. Remind the team that their "scribe," the person responsible for entries to the Team Diary, may want to jot down notes about each of these tools as it is presented.
Trainer Note: If more than one team member attended a single workshop, have all those who went to it huddle to select a spokesperson who will tell the rest of the team about the workshop. They need fill out only one Workshop Information Sheet.
C. Ask for volunteers to take 5 minutes, using HO-1 or newsprint, to tell the others about the concepts, processes, or tools addressed in the workshop that they attended.
D. Repeat the process until information about all of the workshops has been presented.
A. Facilitate a discussion about the use of the concepts and tools from the workshops when the team returns home.
Discussion Questions
What is the relevance of the concepts, processes, and tools presented in the workshop for our partnership? How will we use them with our home organization and our partnership?
How do these concepts, processes, and tools help or hinder our efforts to involve the various cultural groups within our home organizations and our partnership? Will these tools help us involve new cultural groups in our work?
Which of these concepts, processes, and tools, alone or in combination, are likely to give our partnership the most useful understanding of how we conduct our planning work? Which will contribute most to how we develop community-oriented ATOD abuse planning processes?
Are there other concepts, processes, and tools, or adaptations of those presented, that would be more useful for our partnership? Who knows them? How will tools be adapted?
Directions
B. Ask participants how they see the concepts and tools fitting into the process of mobilizing their communities.
A. Ask if participants need clarification about the linkages between planning and (1) community needs assessment and (2) community development and community mobilization.
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