Assessing Community Readiness for PPOR Level 2 Seminar February 24, 2004

Community Foundations Cycle for Change Conceptual Framework for the Perinatal Periods of Risk Approach Planning Cycle for Action PPOR Connections

Readiness Education & Communication Readiness Were/are you analytically ready to move ahead with the data? What would you recommend for readiness? Were/are you ready as a community to move ahead with the approach? What would you recommend for readiness? What were/are the top 3 factors in place that enabled the PPOR approach to be implemented? What were the top three challenges? What initial resources did it take or do you need to move ahead with implementing the PPOR approach? How has your data infrastructure changed because of PPOR? Education & Communication How was PPOR first communicated to your community’s key stakeholders? How have your stakeholders changed over time? How did you educate your various stakeholder about the PPOR approach? What proved to be most effective to achieve common understanding? Do you have any tools or presentations used with the Community and/or Policymakers to share? Besides for the core team, did you have any PPOR champions? What needed to happen to get enough key people to champion and proceed ahead with the approach? Based on your perception, How well do people in your community understand the concept of PPOR? How well can participating members of your community articulate your infant mortality problem? How is PPOR being used as a tool to mobilize your community? Convene Core PPOR team Assess community readiness (TENT) Assess analytic readiness (checklist) Educate core team Data analysis stakeholders Educate key comm. stakeholders Reach consensus of sufficient readiness Infrastructure and support Sufficient initial understanding Agreement to go forward Educate department leaders Collect: Readiness Tents Data pieces from preassessments

RAISING THE ROOF FOR PPOR: What Shape Is Your Tent?  Review the 5 essential elements questions  Assess the current status of each  Reach consensus on a “score” for each readiness element  Plot each score on the “tent” by marking the number on each corresponding axis.  Connect the 5 points between the axises to form the roof, then shade the tent.  Identify the tent pattern most like yours: what does this mean for PPOR readiness?

RAISING THE ROOF FOR PPOR: What Shape Is Your Tent?

With the 5 “R”s aligned, room for many and room to grow

RAISING THE ROOF FOR PPOR: What Shape Is Your Tent? Smaller scale effort... with smaller scale results?

RAISING THE ROOF FOR PPOR: What Shape Is Your Tent? Many willing champions, but inadequate resources and uncertain results

RAISING THE ROOF FOR PPOR: What Shape Is Your Tent? Great plan and resources but no one to do the work

RAISING THE ROOF FOR PPOR: What Shape Is Your Tent? Great ideas, but unclear results won’t go far

RAISING THE ROOF FOR PPOR: What Shape Is Your Tent? Great concepts and clear vision, but inadequate resources to get results

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Community Readiness: Elements vs. Skills Leadership Leadership Partnership Partnership Commitment Commitment Change Change  Communicate Approach, Results  Prioritize Actions  Engage Over Time  Mobilize for Action