# Presentation: 726573

##  Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse     National GRAA Technical Assistance ConferenceJanuary 9-11, 2007 Atlanta, GA ~ Omni Hotel

**Community Coalitions – **
**The Link Between GRAA and the Community**
***“******Math / Aftermath”***

- Momentum is easier to steer than to start

**Notes:**
This Coalition Building workshop focuses on how to keep the successes, the positive outcomes going.  There are 8 key talking points.
Both grantee sites will respond to all 8 of the talking points.  They are welcome to bring any items, products, artifacts, photos, news articles, or examples to show, that correspond to their talking points.

## Workshop Presenter

**Northeast CAPT Associate**
***Nora L. Drexler*****, M. Ed.**
- President
- Drexler Associates, Inc.
- 5639 Mill Street
- Erie, PA 16509-2923
- Phone: 814.864.9986
- Cell Phone:  814.449.5434
- FAX:  814.868.0648
- Email:   ndrexler@drexlerassociates.com

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## Welcome!

**Community Coalitions – **
**The Link Between GRAA and the Community**
- “Math/Aftermath”

- Momentum is easier to steer than to start

**Notes:**
Grantee panelists will talk about how they have managed to succeed in these areas, or provide “lessons learned” from the field in each of the 8 focus areas listed on Slide 8.  The audience will have a little time as well, to continue to share evidence based on the 8 talking points.

##  “Math/Aftermath”

**You’ve done your math. **
**You measured your outcomes.**
**Now what?**
** ****Your coalition has enjoyed many successes.  **
**The plan during the aftermath **
**of the successes is critical.**
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- Momentum is easier to steer than to start

**Notes:**
The key to success is not to get complacent.  You have to keep working and have a plan to keep the steamroller going.

## Why is it crucial that we keep the effort going?

-                           		**Compelling data ****	****	****	****	****	****drives the ****	****need to ****	****	****	****	****	****reduce underage ****	****	****	****	****	****drinking!**
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**Notes:**
Why is it important to keep our coalitions and our efforts going?  Compelling data outlines the critical need to reduce underage drinking.

## Introductions

** ****Meet the Coalition Panelists**

**Beth LaCourse Lawyer**
***Board of Cooperative*** ***Educational Services of Franklin County, Malone NY***
**Joe Furshong, Casey Malloy and Tracy Moseman**
***Helena School District #1, Helena, MT***

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**Notes:**
The panelists for the two grantee sites will be introduced before proceeding.

## Agenda

**How to Keep the Steamroller Going...**
***Our tips today for success  ***
***fall within the 5-step SPF Process***
- (Strategic Prevention Framework)

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**Notes:**
The 8 talking points about keeping the efforts and outcomes going, fall within the recommended 5 areas of the SPF, (Strategic Planning Framework), which is explained on the next slide for those grantees who reside in a state that does not have a SPF/SIG grant.

## Tips for Coalition Success in Linking GRAA to the Community

***1.  Keep the steamroller going.***
***2.  Deliberately upgrade everyone’s skills.***
***3.  Actively stretch, expand and grow.***
***4.  Push power and decision-making down to other levels.***
***5.  Goals must force action.***
**6.  *****Yes****,* ***sweat the small stuff***!
**7. “*****Brilliant in the basics***.”
***8.  Hold everyone accountable.***

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**Notes:**
These are 8 key points to keep the successes and the coalition rolling.

## SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework 

- 1. Assess

- 2. Build Capacity

- 3. Plan

- 4. Implement

- 5. Monitor, evaluate

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**Notes:**
This slide will be explained very briefly by Nora Drexler, for the benefit of those who are not acquainted with the 5 planning areas of the SPF.

##     Step 1.  ASSESS

-    Never put the coalition “on hold,” by running the organization on “remote control.”  It should never be “business as usual.”  ***Push power and decision-making down to other levels***, so that everyone is not so dependent on you.
*(By using data collection teams for gathering data and *
*decision making processes, everyone takes an active role.)*

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**Notes:**
(Leaders should always be “waiting in the wings” with ‘Continuous Quality Improvement going on..) Our panelists will share ways that they disperse power and decision making and keep the coalition moving forward.

## Let’s Share!Panelists ~ Audience

*Let’s Share!**Panelists ~ Audience*

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## Step 2.  Build Capacity

-                        Your coalition’s successes          		     should never be used as a    			     license for complacency.  Keep improving and training yourself and your leaders.  ***Deliberately upgrade everyone’s skills***, because if you don’t, you will lose your pipeline of talent.
*(Build technical capacities.)*

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**Notes:**
Panelists will share how they keep people trained and current on practices, procedures, technology, statistics, etc.

## Let’s Share!Panelists ~ Audience

*Let’s Share!**Panelists ~ Audience*

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## Step 2.  Build Capacity

***	******	******	******     ******Actively stretch, expand and ******	******	******	******    grow*** in more ways.  Some leaders stop playing to win, and instead, play “just not to lose.”
*(Build human and financial capacities.)*

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**Notes:**
If our wins come to easily, we tend to sit back and take a passive approach to what is happening with the coalition. Our panelists will share ways that they keep their coalition “eve-rgreen!”

## Let’s Share!Panelists ~ Audience

*Let’s Share!**Panelists ~ Audience*

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## Step 3.  Plan

*** ******	******	******	******Keep the steamroller going***!  			Leaders cannot be afraid of success, or of getting too big. Momentum is much easier to steer than to start.
*(Plan how to keep motivating and mobilizing.)*

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**Notes:**
Our panelists may want to share their concerns about becoming too big or too successful and how they believe the coalition can handle substantial growth. (perhaps there is a strategic plan, etc.)

## Let’s Share!Panelists ~ Audience

*Let’s Share!**Panelists ~ Audience*

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## Step 3.  Plan

***                       ******Goals must force action***, big  			     decisions and bold actions.  This    		     will continually keep everything “stirred up” with new strategies and no complacency.
*(Set precise goals.)*

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**Notes:**
Panelists will share why they believe it is important to “raise the bar” and set goals that are worth reaching for.  Panelists will share examples.

## Let’s Share!Panelists ~ Audience

*Let’s Share!**Panelists ~ Audience*

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## Step 4.  Implement

-                            Yes, ***sweat the small stuff***!  It   			is the cumulative, small 				issues that add up to much  				bigger problems.
*(Tracking and process evaluation will help.)*

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**Notes:**
In coalition work, the “small stuff” can become a nightmare overnight, when little problems escalate quickly and “snowball” into larger problems.  Panelists will share examples of their experiences with “small stuff” and how they exercised problem solving to address the problem.

## Let’s Share!Panelists ~ Audience

*Let’s Share!**Panelists ~ Audience*

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## Step 4.  Implement

- 				Believe the mantra, 					“***Brilliant in the basics***.”  The same basic principles and guidelines for Best Practices are in effect day after day and must be woven into the functions of both new coalitions and mature ones.

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**Notes:**
Coalition “basics” offer good infrastructure for success.  Basic and simple can be a GOOD thing. (The KISS method- Keep it Simple Sweetie),  Just as following simple guidelines for good nutrition can be very helpful to maintain good health, coalitions have many basics, too.  Panelists can expound on some of the “basics” that they feel are very valuable to their coalition for continued success.

## Let’s Share!Panelists ~ Audience

*Let’s Share!**Panelists ~ Audience*

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## Step 5.  Evaluate

***	******	******	******Hold everyone accountable.***
-                      Successful outcomes can cause some leaders to become more lax and forgiving.  Continue to hold everyone accountable, or you will be held hostage by those under-performers.
*(*Continuous tracking and evaluation
- will reveal both losses and gains.)

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**Notes:**
Everyone has to be accountable and responsible for what they do.  It is easy for us to overlook small infringements, of perhaps those who mean well or are already doing a good job, but we can’t look away when mistakes are made. One person’s mistake is seen sometimes as the bigger mistake of the whole coalition.  Then the coalition and its efforts lose credibility.

## Let’s Share!Panelists ~ Audience

*Let’s Share!**Panelists ~ Audience*

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## Never yield ground. 
It is easier and cheaper to keep it, 
than to “retake it” once it is lost.

   Leaders cannot be afraid of success, or of getting too big. Momentum is much easier to STEER than to START.

***It is easier and cheaper to keep it, ***
***than to “retake it” once it is lost.***
-    Leaders cannot be afraid of success, or of getting too big. Momentum is much easier to STEER than to START.

- Momentum is easier to steer than to start

**Notes:**
The bottom line is that we can’t stop trying. All the hard work that coalitions put into holding tight to the ground they have captured, can be lost in a heartbeat.  It takes longer to try to start the whole initiative over again than it does to keep it going.

## Good Job!

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**Notes:**
Closure for this interactive workshop will consist of the audience stating what they have learned, new perspectives, etc. that will help them with their coalition work.

## Source for Success Tips 
from Today’s Workshop:  

David Anderson’s Seven Steps to Build, Fix or Stretch Your Organization, (John Wiley & Sons) www.LearnToLead.com 

- from Today’s Workshop:
- David Anderson’s *Seven Steps to Build, Fix or Stretch Your Organization, (John Wiley & Sons) *_[www.LearnToLead.com](http://www.learntolead.com/)_

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## Thank you 

- Thank you
- for attending our training!
- Good Luck!

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