Community Action Tool Kit

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Community Action Tool Kit

• Building Community Support, Collaboration and
  Sustainability
• Answering the Tough Questions
• Finding Common Ground
• Joneen Krauth-Mackenzie RN, BSN
• www.waittraining.org

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What Are Your Barriers?

• Abstinence doesnt work
• We cannot teach values and morals
• What about the gay and lesbian students?
• What about the kids who are sexually active?
• Abstinence ed withholds lifesaving information
• Abstinence ed is from the religious right
• Abstinence ed is fear and shame based
• Abstinence ed is not medically accurate

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Have a Plan

• What is your mission?
• What is your objective?
• What are your strategies?
• Who are the players?
• Who will be responsible for each step?
• When will the project begin?
• How will we become valuable to the community?

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Creating Community Value

• of your mission
• of your message
• of your of your methods

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Meet the needs of the community partners

• Know the research
• Make it relevant
• Provide service
• Answer the tough questions
• Use inclusive language
• Promote understanding
• Create relationships
• Attend community meetings
• Provide services and trainings (for
  sustainability)
• Network, network, network

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Sell Your Project

• Be clear
• Be focused
• Be realistic
• Find common purposes and goals
• Use community contact list
• Partner, Partner, Partner

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Where do you start?

• Develop your plan
• Be edgy, new and creative
• Captivate and engage
• Find similar goals
• Develop your data base
• This is not about you!

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Make a list

• Create a task list and timeline for each event
• Have a person responsible with a time line and a
  check off box
• Get parents, community leaders and teens to be
  your advocates in the community
• Provide incentives

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Host Community Events

• Market to each group differently
• Use flyers, postcards, brochures
• Create a community contact list
• Get free publicity with press releases and call
  ins to radio programs or local community channels
• Get list serves from your health dept and dept of
  education

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Create Relationships

• Learn names of participants
• Make event fun and interactive
• Capture contact information
• Follow-up
• Pursue relationships
• How can I be of service? or What can we do for
  you?

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Questions?