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## Community Board Orientation    

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## Prepare to build and maintain an effective Community Board.

- Prepare to build and maintain an effective Community Board.

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## Develop team-building skills.

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- Create an effective organizational structure.
- Identify the functions and activities of the Community Board work groups.

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## Shared vision

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- Strong bonds

## •	Coordinator/Facilitator

- •	Coordinator/Facilitator
- •	Chair
- •	Vice Chair
- •	Recorder

- Clearly defined roles and responsibilities, including:

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## •	Set time limits.

- •	Set time limits.
- •	Start on time.
- •	Follow the agenda.
- •	Follow the ground rules.

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## Everyone gets a chance to talk.

- One person speaks at a time—no interrupting.
- It’s OK to say what you think or feel.
- No one *has* to talk.
- Everyone has to listen.
- No put-downs.
- Ask for what you need.

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## •	emphasizing each member’s strengths

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- •	emphasizing each member’s strengths
- •	seeing mistakes and conflict as opportunities
- •	respecting each member’s unique background, personality and views
- •	affirming each member’s commitment to community improvement.

- Mutual support, openness and trust are built through:

## The leader participates in democratic group decision making.

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- The leader participates in democratic group decision making.

- •	Avoid always taking a position and arguing for your own viewpoint.
- •	Do not assume that someone must win and someone must lose.
- •	Do not change your mind just to avoid conflict.
- Seek out opposing viewpoints.

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## Identify the problem.

- Brainstorm solutions.
- Evaluate solutions and identify possible consequences.
- Choose the best solution.
- Plan to implement the decision.

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## Skills

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- The goal...
**Healthy behaviors**
- for all children and youth

- Start with...
**Healthy beliefs & clear standards**
- ...in families, schools, communities and peer groups

- Build...
**Bonding**
**• ****Attachment   • Commitment**
- ...to families, schools, communities and peer groups

- By providing...
**Opportunities**

- By providing...
**Skills**

- By providing...
**Recognition**

- And by nurturing...
**Individual characteristics**

- ...in families, schools, communities and peer groups

## Help team members get to know each other

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- Help team members get to know each other
- Reveal team members’ interests, characteristics and qualities
- Have relevance to training objectives

## Energize and motivate participants to care about specific learning objectives

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- Help participants feel connected to material

## Complete the worksheet.

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- On “sticky” notes, list your name and a skill you bring to the team—one skill per note.
- Post your notes on easel sheets, grouped by skill.
- Discuss what skills the team has and what skills may be needed.

## Forming

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**Based on a model developed by Bruce Tuckman (1965).**

- Storming
- Norming
- Performing

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## Attend trainings.

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- Facilitate the development of a community vision.
- Learn about prevention science and community planning.
- Serve as community ambassadors.
- Conduct the community assessment.
- Prioritize risk and protective factors.
- Conduct the community resources assessment.
- Identify and investigate tested, effective programs, policies and practices.

## Design a 3- to 5-year Community Action Plan. 

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- Design a 3- to 5-year Community Action Plan.
- Develop an evaluation plan.
- Work with Key Leaders to identify and secure resources.
- Facilitate the implementation and evaluation of the Community Action Plan.
- Maintain communication.
- Involve stakeholders.
- Sustain commitment to the community vision.
- Reassess problem behaviors and risk and protective factors.
- Evaluate the Community Action Plan.

## Learn about risk and protection.

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- Contribute to the community vision statement.
- Identify ways to promote healthy beliefs and clear standards.
- Identify ways to promote healthy, strong bonds.
- Provide opportunities for young people.

## Help young people develop skills.

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- Recognize and reward.
- Identify ways to reduce risk factors.
- Develop positive relationships.
- Support laws and policies.
- Communicate the importance of support for youth development.

## Provide staff support.

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- Work with the Trainer to coordinate training and technical assistance.
- Handle Community Board meeting preparation and follow-up.
- Document the *Communities That Care* effort.
- Prepare reports, as needed.

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## Coordinate work-group activities.

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- Participate in decision-making processes as appropriate.
- Communicate regularly with the Executive Committee.

## Set an agenda.

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- Provide oversight and accountability.
- Report regularly to the Key Leader Board.

## Collect risk- and protective-factor data.

- Analyze the data.
- Facilitate the prioritization process.
- Facilitate implementation of the *Communities That Care Youth Survey.*
- Collect archival data.
- Create a list of priority risk and protective factors.
- Reassess risk, protection and youth outcomes.
- Report accomplishments and findings.

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## Develop an inventory of existing community programs, policies and practices.

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- Develop an inventory of existing community programs, policies and practices.
- Create a map or list of the locations of resources in the community.
- Assess existing resources.
- Identify gaps.
- Report accomplishments and findings.
- Design and plan an evaluation of the Community Action Plan.

## Maintain contact with stakeholders.

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- Identify opportunities to educate and involve community members.
- Identify opportunities to celebrate success.
- Create opportunities for receiving input, promoting benefits and announcing outcomes.
- Work with the media.
- Develop and maintain a distribution list for the Community Assessment Report.

## Identify resources. 

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- Identify resources.
- Identify sources of funding.
- Develop a long-term funding plan.
- Identify and communicate with potential funders.
- Write grant proposals.

## Finalize the Community Board’s organizational structure.

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- Establish communication and reporting protocols.
- Establish bylaws and operating procedures.
- Coordinate fiscal and legal status.
- Develop a process for recruiting and educating new Community Board members.
- Coordinate team-building and recognition activities.

## Identify existing youth groups. 

- Identify existing youth groups.
- Recruit youth to serve on the Community Board.
- Involve youth in other work-group activities.
- Coordinate skills development and youth recognition.

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