1. Betsy Graham Military Community and Family Policy
Office of Family Readiness Policy
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Military Community & Family Policy)

2. Community Capacity
Community Capacity involves people who feel a sense of shared responsibility and apply their collective strengths to achieve desired results. Having high capacity means that people are working together to better their community.

3. Why Build Community Capacity?
Working with other individuals, organizations and communities is helpful when navigating the challenges of family life especially in the context of military service.
Service members and their families can address challenges by seeking a variety of expertise, experiences, resources and relationships.
Alberta Community Development Initiative

4. Community Capacity Building
Goal: informal networks and formal systems work together to achieve positive results for community members
Change is initiated by people in the community
When informal networks collaborate with formal systems the ability to create change grows

5. Military’s Formal Systems
Unit leadership
Family Readiness Groups
Family Assistance Centers
Military and Family Support Centers

6. Informal Networks
Less organized networks of personal relationships that are voluntarily formed and maintained
Group associations
Work associates
Neighbors

7. Cope better Have better health Live longer
People who are connected with others and interact regularly in supportive relationships:
Cope better
Have better health
Live longer
“Things go better with belonging”

8. When we organize opportunities for people to come together:
in physical places where they live
because of shared interests, characteristics or concerns

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Connecting military family service providers
to research and to each other
through innovative online programming
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10. Cooperative Extension
Military Installations
106 Land Grant Universities

11. Cooperative Extension
3,143 counties

12. Intro to CCB Training

13. Community Capacity Building Training - Fundamentals
Overview
Community Action & Change
Becoming a CCB Organization
Results Focused Planning

14. Community Capacity Building Training - Advanced
Community Assessment
Strengthening Formal Systems through Collaboration
Mobilizing Informal Networks
Engaging Military Leaders
Monitoring Results & Activities
Sustaining Desired Results

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