Expanding Your Horizons,

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• Expanding Your Horizons,
• Embracing Our Future
• Kathleen Roe
• C3I Annual Conference
• San Jose, May 11, 2006

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3 offeringsBack to the Future The
Millennials Commitments to Practice
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Back to the Future Coalitions! 1.
Characteristics 2. Involving Providers
3. Community Change
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Characteristics of Effective Coalitions

• Common, unifying purpose
• Members actively involved in setting goals,
• objectives, action plans
• Clearly defined member roles and operating
• procedures
• Drawn from Butterfoss FD and Kegler MC (2002).
  Towards a comprehensive
• understanding of community coalitions. In RJ
  DiClemente et al, Emerging Theories in
• Health Promotion Practice and Research. SF
  Jossey-Bass.

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More Key Characteristics

• Support influence of key players
• Shared leadership
• Effective means of communication
• External communication and visibility

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Agreement on

• Primary objectives expected lifespan
• Nature of membership
• Meeting purpose, duration, length, structure,
  food,
• and location
• Participation between meetings
• Best blend of networking, information sharing,
  training, action, and celebration
• and

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• Ongoing evaluation!

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Stages of Coalition Development(Clark, Friedman,
Lachance (2006), Health Promotion Practice
Special Issue on Coalitions)

• Formation Implementation
  Maintenance Institutionalize
• Formation
  Implementation
• Assessment
  Institutionalize
• of progress

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5 Big Ahas from the Research!

• Even mature coalitions cycle through new stages
  of development as members leave or join,
  leadership changes, new opportunities arise
• New members come to the table as stakeholders,
  stay on as partners
• History of trust and shared success is crucial to
  the scope and risk coalition members are willing
  to embrace
• Paid staff make a difference Full-time
  coalitions coordinators make an even bigger
  difference!
• Over time, coalitions move away from direct
  service and outreach to coordination of services
  and policy advocacy

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Engaging Providers