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Empowering Communities for Sustainable Change

Learn how to build capacity in your community for lasting impact. Explore collaborative partnerships and develop a model for community change. Understand the key partners, risk factors, and methods to drive community health and development.

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Empowering Communities for Sustainable Change

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  1. Building Capacity for Community Change

  2. Community: A group of people who share a common place, experience or interest

  3. Community Health: The well-being of everyone in a community

  4. Collaborative Partnerships: Alliances that are used to improve the health of a community

  5. Community Capacity: The ability of community members to make a difference over time and across different issues

  6. Key Partners in a broad collaboration should include: • State and community partnerships • Support organizations • Grant-makers and government agencies

  7. A Model for Community Change: Community context and planning Community action and intervention Community and system change Risk and protective factors and widespread behavior change Improving more distant outcomes

  8. Community context is influenced by: Hopes and expectations Job and family demands Problems Financial resources The community’s reaction The broader political and social context

  9. Community Change: Developing a new program (or modifying an existing one), bringing about a change in policy, or adjusting a practice related to the group’s mission

  10. Affect community health and development through: Targeted mission Action planning Changes in leadership Resources for community mobilizers Documentation and feedback Technical assistance Making outcomes matter

  11. Mission statement: Your organization’s statement of purpose

  12. Action planning: Identifying specific changes in the community or broader system, and implementing related action steps to bring them about

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