1. Community readiness assesses a community's preparedness to address an issue through interviews with community stakeholders. It produces an overall score and scores in 6 dimensions related to community efforts, knowledge, leadership, climate, resources.
2. Knowing a community's readiness level helps build cooperation, increase capacity, and guide the community through change. Lower scores indicate more preparation is needed while higher scores mean the community may be ready to take action. Conducting a community readiness assessment is an important first step for many community initiatives.
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This quarterly slide deck examines new product releases from annuity carriers and life insurers covered in our Annuity Monitor and Life Insurance Monitor research services (see full coverage list on next slide).
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Looking for an audience interactive mystery dinner theater with a Christian theme? This is it.
The Children's Hospital will get the badly needed new wing once the Starlight Sapphire has been sold to the highest bidder. In all its 2621 years, the gem has never passed hands smoothly but how much of the bizarre history is fact and how much is fantasy? The oddball assortment of buyers includes a washed up actress, foreign dignitaries, a teenage country and western singing sensation, a wealthy computer geek and his lawyer as well as feuding family members. Would any action be too extreme for those obsessed with possessing the Starlight Sapphire?
The Mystery of the Starlight Sapphire is a three scene play with dinner occurring between scenes One and Two and dessert between scenes Two and Three. The cast is comprised of four males, six females and 2 roles for either male or female performers. Run time varies but allow 1.5 to 2 hours. Pictures of past productions are included for costuming ideas.
Download the script and director’s notes here. Available separately for no charge are ancillary materials including a brochure describing the history of the Starlight Sapphire and “discovered†evidence about Ching, Betty Blue, Delilah and Bertha. These may be altered to suit your particular show. Get them for free at the Fools for Christ website.
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Annuity and Life Insurance Product Update - Q2 2014Corporate Insight
This quarterly slide deck examines new product releases from annuity carriers and life insurers covered in our Annuity Monitor and Life Insurance Monitor research services (see full coverage list on next slide).
Inside, we rundown the new products introduced on the firm’s websites in the second quarter of 2014 and highlight their key features.
Looking for an audience interactive mystery dinner theater with a Christian theme? This is it.
The Children's Hospital will get the badly needed new wing once the Starlight Sapphire has been sold to the highest bidder. In all its 2621 years, the gem has never passed hands smoothly but how much of the bizarre history is fact and how much is fantasy? The oddball assortment of buyers includes a washed up actress, foreign dignitaries, a teenage country and western singing sensation, a wealthy computer geek and his lawyer as well as feuding family members. Would any action be too extreme for those obsessed with possessing the Starlight Sapphire?
The Mystery of the Starlight Sapphire is a three scene play with dinner occurring between scenes One and Two and dessert between scenes Two and Three. The cast is comprised of four males, six females and 2 roles for either male or female performers. Run time varies but allow 1.5 to 2 hours. Pictures of past productions are included for costuming ideas.
Download the script and director’s notes here. Available separately for no charge are ancillary materials including a brochure describing the history of the Starlight Sapphire and “discovered†evidence about Ching, Betty Blue, Delilah and Bertha. These may be altered to suit your particular show. Get them for free at the Fools for Christ website.
Be Inspired to Dream & Create a MiracleCindy McAsey
Discover 4 powerful events that developed our brand partner, Shaklee in becoming the #1 Natural Nutrition company in America. Also be inspired by 3 events taking us into great future that can be passed down to future generations. #barefootalk #ShakleeEffect
Slides for a virtual presentation I did on November 15th for the Benetec learning event. The audio for the last 10 minutes is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQJkYlmp_g (webinar software failure!)
Overview Our team has been immersed in ‘whole .docxgertrudebellgrove
Overview
Our team has been immersed in ‘whole system change’ for the past few years
in Ontario, Canada; California; Australia and New Zealand; and elsewhere. Our main
mode of learning is to go from practice to theory, and then back and forth to obtain
more specific insights about how to lead and participate in transformative change in
schools and school systems.
In this workshop we take the best of these insights from our most recent
publications: Stratosphere, The Professional Capital of Teachers, The Principal,
Freedom to Change, and Coherence and integrate the ideas into a single set of
learnings.
The specific objectives for participants are:
1. To learn to take initiative on what we call 'Freedom to Change’.
2. To Understand and be able to use the ‘Coherence Framework’.
3. To analyze your current situation and to identify action strategies fro making
improvements.
4. Overall to gain insights into ‘leadership in a digital age’.
We have organized this session around six modules:
Module I Freedom From Change 1-4
Module II Focusing Direction 5-10
Module III Cultivating Collaborative Cultures 11-14
Module IV Deepening Learning 15-22
Module V Securing Accountability 23-30
Module VI Freedom To Change 31-32
References 33
Please feel free to reproduce and use the
material in this booklet with your staff and others.
2015
Freedom From Change
1
Shifting to
the Right Drivers
Right Wrong
§ Capacity building
§ Collaborative work
§ Pedagogy
§ Systemness
§ Accountability
§ Individual teacher and
leadership quality
§ Technology
§ Fragmented strategies
Freedom:
If you could make one
change in your school or
system what would it be?
What obstacles stand in
your way?
What would you change? What are the obstacles?
Trio Talk:
§ Meet up with two colleagues.
§ Share your choice and rationale.
§ What were the similarities and differences in the choices?
Module 1
2
The Concepts of Freedom § Freedom to is getting rid of the constraints.
§ Freedom from is figuring
out what to do when you
become more liberated.
Seeking Coherence § Within your table read the seven quotes from Coherence and circle
the one you like the best.
§ Go around the table and see who selected which quotes.
§ As a group discuss what ‘coherence’ means.
Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts, and Systems
Fullan, M., & Quinn, J. ( 2015). Corwin & Ontario Principals’ Council.
# Quote
1. There is only one way to achieve greater coherence, and that is through purposeful action and interaction,
working on capacity, clarity, precision of practice, transparency, monitoring of progress, and continuous
correction. All of this requires the right mixture of “pressure and support”: the press for progress within
supportive and focused cultures. p. 2
2. Coher ...
Naked Meetings: Using Unseen Structures to Achieve Results4Good.org
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<p>Underneath what we see as a "meeting" is an unseen structure that influences how we behave. This webinar will help you recognize these structures and identify more effective ones for your meetings. Using an appropriate structure makes it easier to stay focused, manage time and conflicts ... and build better decisions.
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6. 6
Cultural Awareness in
Capacity Building
Effectiveness in cross-
Behaviors + Attitudes + Policies =
cultural situations
Race/Ethnicity Disability
Language Sexual Orientation
Gender Socioeconomic
status
7. 7
Seven Domains
of Cultural Competence
Organizational Communication
values
Staff
Governance Development
Planning, monitor Organizational
ing, evaluation Infrastructure
Services, interven
tion
8. 8
CC Activity
1. Break into 7 groups (domains)
2. As a group identify the critical areas of your
domain.
3. “Critical” being required
skills, knowledge, processes, practices, poli
cies, or __________
4. Record your answers on flip chart.
9. 9
CC Activity
1. As we hear each group report
out, please identify 1 action or activity
for each domain that you believe your
organization could benefit from.
10.
11. 11
Defining Sustainability
A process of ensuring an adaptive and effective
system that achieves and maintains desired long
term results.
Ultimately, sustainability is about maintaining
positive outcomes in communities.
Sustainability is never achieved, it is a
continuous process.
12. 12
Background
Developed by the SECAPT
Based on extensive literature review (over 100
articles, book chapters, and books).
Literature review was multidisciplinary and includes:
Community Development, Community
Psychology, Communications, Education, Family
Planning, Health Promotion, Management, Mental
Health, and Substance Abuse.
Core components essential for sustaining prevention
efforts were identified and put into 3 keys.
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Sustainability Activity
Using pg. 9-15 answer the following
questions in your small group. Be specific
as possible in your answers:
1. What are the 3 main components of
sustainability?
2. There are 10 actions. What do all the
activities below the actions provide?
14. 14
Individual Reflection
1.Identify 1 sustainability action
area (Actions 1-10) your
organization needs to further
develop or strengthen.
2.Record your answer.
15.
16. 16
Prevention as a System
A system is:
1. Any organized assembly of resources and
procedures united and regulated by
interaction or interdependence to
accomplish a set of specific functions.
2. A collection of personnel, equipment, and
methods organized to accomplish a set of
specific functions.
17. 17
What is capacity?
The conditions needed to support
successful community mobilization around a
particular problem (Goodman et al., 1998).
The ability of individuals, organizations, and
leaders to effectively promote positive
initiatives and accomplishments as well as
address community problems/priority areas.
18. 18
What does capacity
building consist of?
Training Forming partnerships
Committed Staff
Supportive leadership
Convening key
stakeholders, coalitions, an Face to face meetings
d service providers to plan
and implement sustainable Town Hall meetings
prevention efforts
Mobilization of resources Parent workshops
within a geographic area.
Collective activism
Financial and organizational
resources Individual activism
19. 19
1. Using your
goal, identify
resources (both
internal and external)
actively involved for
each Contributing
Factor for 1 of your
Intervening Variables.
2. Refer to Appendix F
and G for possible
ideas.
3. At the same time…
20. 20
1.As you identify
resources, you
may also identify
gaps.
2.Record your
gaps on pg. 19
21. 21
Individual Reflection
1.What does capacity building
mean for this grant?
22.
23. 23
SWOT
1. With a partner study pg. 26 and 27.
2. Make as much sense as possible out
of these 2 pgs.
3. Place ? next to information you don’t
understand.
24. 24
SWOT
1. With your community develop a plan
listing activities, dates, and
assignments for your organization to
conduct a SWOT.
27. Listening Teams
Assignments:
Questioners: after lecture ask at least 2
questions about the lecture material.
Agreers: tell which points your team agreed with
(or found helpful) and explain why.
Nay Sayers: comments on points you disagreed
with (or found unhelpful) and explain why.
Example Givers: explain specific examples or
applications of the lecture material.
28. Listening Teams
1. I will do an overview of Community
Readiness. Your job is to listen to the
material presented based on your
assignment.
2. When the overview is finished, you will have
a few minutes to meet with your team and
complete your assignments as a group.
3. We will discuss your assignment as a group.
29. 29
Community Readiness
Readiness is the degree to which a community is
prepared to take action on an issue.
The capacity of a community to implement
programs, policies and other changes that are
designed to reduce the likelihood of substance
use. (Plested et.al. (2004). Community Readiness: A Handbook for Successful
Change. Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research.)
30. 30
Community Readiness
Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research model.
Interviewed key community leaders/stakeholders
about your goal
Model produced an overall score in addition to a
score in 6 dimensions.
31. 31
Benefits of knowing your
community’s readiness
Builds cooperation & collaboration among systems
and individuals.
Increases capacity
Encourages and enhances community investment on
an issue.
Guides the community through the complex process
of community change.
Source: Plested et.al. (2004). Community Readiness: A Handbook for Successful Change. Tri-
Ethnic Center for Prevention Research. p.3
32. 32
Dimensions of Readiness
Community Community climate
Efforts
Community
Community knowledge of the
knowledge of the issue
Efforts.
Resources related
Leadership to the issue
33. 33
9 Stages of Readiness
9
8
1 2 3 4 5 7 High level
6 Confirm- of
No Denial/Resi Vague Pre- Pre- Stabiliz- ation/ community
Awareness stance Awareness planning Initiation
paration ation ownership
Expansion
Source: Plested et.al. (2004). Community Readiness: A Handbook for Successful Change. Tri-Ethnic Center for
Prevention Research. p.9
34. 34
Read the CR book
Review and revise the
Community interview questions
Readiness based on your goal and
contributing factors
Identify 6 individuals
Major tasks to from different sectors to
plan for interview
Review scoring process
and prepare for scoring
Interviews
Scoring
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Community Readiness Scoring
Interviews #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Total
A) Community 3.5 5.0 4.25 4.75 5.5 3.75 26.75
Efforts
B) Community 2 4 6 3.25 4.5 3.25 23
Knowledge of
Efforts
DIMENSIONS
C) Leadership 2.25 4.5 4.75 3.5 4 4.25 23.25
D) Community 4.25 3.75 5.0 2.75 4.5 3.5 23.75
Climate
E) Community 4 4.25 3.75 4.5 5 3.5 24.5
Knowledge about
issue
F) Resources 2.75 3 3.25 3.5 3.25 3 18.75
related to issue
36. 36
Community Readiness Scoring
Total Dimension Divided by # interviews Score
Community efforts 26.75 6 4.46
Community knowledge 23 6 3.83
of efforts
Leadership 23.25 6 3.88
Community climate 23.75 6 3.96
Community knowledge 24.5 6 4.08
about issue
Resources related to 18.75 6 3.13
issue
Overall Stage of Readiness Score
Total of all dimensions Divided by # interviews Score
23.34 6 3.89
37. Listening Teams
Assignments:
Questioners: after lecture ask at least 2
questions about the lecture material.
Agreers: tell which points your team agreed with
(or found helpful) and explain why.
Nay Sayers: comments on points you disagreed
with (or found unhelpful) and explain why.
Example Givers: explain specific examples or
applications of the lecture material.