Beliefs About Change. Using The Framework for Collaborative Efforts. Understanding Collaborative Goals. identifying your collaborative goals. This is an actual case study of collaboration in which names have been changed. Larkin County has a population of approximately 20,000 people.
Principle industries are agriculture, forest products and tourism.
There is a range of socioeconomic levels. Informally, three people began to meet over coffee, talking about how awful these issues were. They began seeking out environments where key leaders met in common, like the Rotary Club, talking with more people, until more concerned citizens both youth and adults wanted to investigate the problems. Two years later they had a group formed to study the issue. Another two years went by and 11 different organizations within their community had a portion of their baseline budget dedicated to teen pregnancy prevention and intervention programming.