Systems often seem to have a life of their own and resist change.
The challenge is to develop a process of working together that is flexible enough to allow adjustments to new circumstances, while staying focused on long-term goals. Part II reflects this fact by offering communities a strategic five-stage process for realizing their own vision of a profamily system. Collaboratives that use this process will move through each stage in their own way and at their own speed. Some may move to the next stage before passing every milestone in the previous stage, and some may work in two stages at once. Often, collaboratives will pursue several milestones at the same time.