Some coalitions have organized their efforts in multiethnic and multidisciplinary task forces. Each task force examines specific topics deemed essential in its community health vision. Examples may include physical health, social justice, citizen participation, access to particular programs or services, economy, education, human enrichment, spiritual life, environment, and work. Each task force can be given the responsibility for collecting and analyzing pertinent information and making recommendations to the larger group regarding a specific issue area. Creating a Vision Visioning is the process of developing a shared picture of a healthy community.
Visions encompass values, priorities, and desires.
A Guide for Local Leaders. Visioning provides an excellent framework for supporting health strategies in individual communities. In community health promotion, a vision is a picture of how a locality hopes to function in the future. The vision describes what a community would look like if it were optimally supporting health and well-being for all its residents and organizations. Visioning requires participants to expand their thinking beyond the pressing constraints of today to come up with inspirational and far-reaching ideas for tomorrow.