# Presentation: 507893

## Community Board Orientation    

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## Community Board Orientation    

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## Prepare to educate and involve the community in science-based prevention and youth development.

- Prepare to educate and involve the community in science-based prevention and youth development.

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## 1.	Develop a community vision statement for the future of children and youth.

- 1.	Develop a community vision statement for the future of children and youth.

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- 2.	Create and maintain effective communication mechanisms.

- 3.	Identify ways to involve community members, including youth.

- 4.	Recruit new Community Board members, if needed.

## Want to change (pull)

- Have to change (push)
- Reaction to crisis (push)
- As a preventive measure (pull)

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## Future-focused

- Affects decisions, choices and actions

- Provides direction

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## Aspiration, inspiration, perspiration 

- Aspiration, inspiration, perspiration
- Create a sense of urgency
- Include concrete, achievable goals

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## Our vision is a healthy community in which each member contributes to an environment of respect, honesty, responsibility and caring.

- Our vision is a community that has harnessed its creativity and resources to provide each young person with the opportunity to grow up safe, healthy and happy.

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## Part one—individually:

- It is 25 years from now. You are in a helicopter looking down at your community, where children grow up to be healthy, productive adults. Imagine what you see.

- Record your ideas on the “sticky” notes at your table. Use one note for each idea.

- Rank your ideas according to priority.

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## Part three—table groups:

- Craft the themes into a vision statement: 	“Our vision is...”
- Write draft statement on an easel page and display.
- Share with the other groups.

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## An effective Community Board develops and maintains effective communication:

- An effective Community Board develops and maintains effective communication:

- within the board

- with Key Leadersand the community.

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## Meeting dates, times and locations

- Meeting agendas and minutes

- Progress reports

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## Reports

- Newsletters

- Memoranda

- Meetings

- Presentations

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##   Key contacts

-   Key contacts
-   Access
-   Communication
-   Roles

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## Community Board membership 

- Community Board membership

- Data collection/interpretation

- Public relations

- Program planning and development

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## Using the worksheet in your Participant’s Guide:

- Identify one way to involve youth.
- Use the Social Development Strategy to plan this involvement.

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## Is the diversity of our community represented by our Community Board?

- Is the diversity of our community represented by our Community Board?
- Which specific community segments do we still need to involve to be successful?

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## Community Board Orientation    

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