1. evidence2success
These slides are intended as a tool for gauging and fostering agreement about choosing priorities, setting goals and selecting programs in the workshops of Phases 3 and 4 in Evidence2Success. They are primarily intended for use with the community board in several specific meetings. The first meeting is the one in which the community board reviews the data workgroup’s recommendations and makes the final selection of priority outcomes, risk factors and protective factors. The second and third are for the Community Planning Workshop in Phase 4, where the community board sets nonbinding, aspirational goals for improvement in the priorities and then selects the tested, effective programs to be implemented.
Evidence-Based Practice Group

2. Creating an Environment That Supports Decision Making
We are all responsible for the spirit of this meeting.
Focus on shared interests, not specific interests.
Honor and respect others in all interactions.
Participate actively and share the time.
Be honest — it’s okay to say what you think/feel.
Stay solution focused instead of problem focused.
Stay present.
The preferred style or way of reaching agreement in Evidence2Success is based on Sam Kaner’s gradients of agreement. We recommend this approach, particularly if your community board has not settled on a preferred decision-making approach. These slides are intended to help coordinators use the gradients of agreement approach in helping the board to
Settle on priority outcomes, risk factors and protective factors
Set goals
Choose tested, effective programs to address the priorities
Your regular meeting ground rules might reflect these values already. If so, it may not be necessary to use this slide.

3. How Strongly do I Support These Priorities?
Joint priority setting: Developing a vision for our children
How Strongly do I Support These Priorities?
Enthusiastic Support
Support
Lukewarm Support
Support with Reservation
Won’t Support As Is
Support is not a yes/no question.
Where do you fall in this gradient of agreement?
THIS SLIDE IS TO BE USED DURING THE PROCESS OF SELECTING PRIORITIES.
Weighing one another’s priorities, we’ll come up with a final set of priority outcomes for the next four years. It’s unlikely to meet everyone’s immediate needs, however. You should realize that, by supporting the final set, you are not giving complete, enthusiastic support. If there are some things you don’t like but you are still willing to go along, you can register your reservations using this scale. This is the scale we’ll use to find out where each of you rate the final set of priority outcomes.
We’d like to have everyone in the 4’s and 5’s to move forward. But any 1’s and 2’s (even one!) require the group to stop and discuss reservations:
For 2’s: Ask “What are your reservations?”
For 1’s: Ask “What needs to happen in order for you to support this?”
If no resolution is achieved, the group might consider a different priority. 1 2 3 4 5
Adapted from Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision Making

4. How Strongly Do I Support These Goals?
Recommending Proven Programs
How Strongly Do I Support These Goals?
Enthusiastic Support
Support
Lukewarm Support
Support with Reservation
Won’t Support As Is
Support is not a yes/no question.
Where do you fall in this gradient of agreement?
THIS SLIDE IS TO BE USED WITH GOAL SETTING. (IT CAN BE USED WITH OUTCOME GOALS, PROGRAM-LEVEL GOALS AND PARTICIPANT-LEVEL GOALS.)
Weighing one another’s goals, we’ll come up with a final set for the next four years. These are unlikely to meet everyone’s needs, however. You should realize that, by supporting the final set, you are not necessarily giving complete, enthusiastic, unquestioning support. If there are some things you don’t like but you are still willing to go along, you can register your reservations using this scale. This is the scale we’ll use to find out where each of you rate the final set of priority outcomes. 1 2 3 4 5
Adapted from Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision Making

5. How Strongly Do I Support These Programs?
Recommending Proven Programs
How Strongly Do I Support These Programs?
Enthusiastic Support
Support
Lukewarm Support
Support with Reservation
Won’t Support As Is
Support is not a yes/no question.
Where do you fall in this gradient of agreement?
THIS SLIDE IS TO BE USED WITH THE PROGRAM SELECTION PROCESS.
Use this slide in the same way you used the corresponding slide when checking agreement for the proposed priorities. 1 2 3 4 5
Adapted from Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision Making

6. Recommending Proven Programs
Write the final list of priority risk and protective factors and outcomes, or programs or goals on a flipchart page. Give participants five minutes to consider the combined set in silence. Any second thoughts? Any other changes? Get agreement to consider them final.