1. Building Capacity for Community Change

2. Community:
A group of people who share a common place, experience or interest.

3. Community Health:
The well-being of everyone in a community.

4. Collaborative Partnerships:
Alliances that are used to improve the health of a community.

5. Community Capacity:
The ability of community members to make a difference over time and across different issues.

6. Key Partners in a broad collaboration should include:
State and community partnerships
Support organizations
Grant-makers and government agencies

7. A Model for Community Change:
Community context and planning.
Community action and intervention.
Community and system change.
Risk and protective factors and widespread behavior change.
Improving more distant outcomes.

8. Community context is influenced by:
Hopes and expectations.
Job and family demands.
Problems.
Financial resources.
The community’s reaction.
The broader political and social context.

9. Community Change:
Developing a new program (or modifying an existing one), bringing about a change in policy, or adjusting a practice related to the group’s mission.

10. Affect community health and development through:
Targeted mission.
Action planning.
Changes in leadership.
Resources for community mobilizers.
Documentation and feedback.
Technical assistance.
Making outcomes matter.

11. Mission statement:
Your organization’s statement of purpose.

12. Action planning:
Identifying specific changes in the community or broader system, and implementing related action steps to bring them about.