3 steps to revitalize your community coalition shelisa howard-martinez, director of community...

3 Steps to Revitalize Your Community Coalition

Shelisa Howard-Martinez, Director of Community Engagement

Wednesday, January 14, 2015: 10-11am

Community Coalitions

Community Coalitions

Community Coalitions

Community Coalitions

Community Coalitions

Community Coalitions

Desired Outcomes

1. 3 concrete steps to revitalize your coalition

1. Promising practices for building an effective stakeholder engagement approach

1. Share collaboration tools and templates

3 Concrete Steps

1. Regularly assess your coalition

• Assessing your partnership at least once a year is a promising practice

• Opportunity for entire group to identify emerging challenges & opportunities

• Use the assessment design process to enhance engagement with your partners

Assessing Your Coalition

1. Focus on the functions/ types of support that you provide to your coalition

2. Ask for recommendations that will increase member engagement & not just place extra work on your plate

3. Consider using a neutral third party

2. Build-in practices and agreements

Partnership/ coalition agreement:• Defines how your coalition will work together• Is different than bylaws or a charter• All coalition partners should participate in the creation

of the Agreement and adopt the Agreement in some way

• This agreement is a working document and should be tweaked as needed

Partnership/ Coalition Agreement

Components:• Guiding principles• Structure• Partner roles & responsibilities• Decision-making process• Conflict resolution

3. Develop an actionable plan for your coalition

• A plan that will specifically speak to your coalition’s collaboration, direction, and sustainability

• Strategic plan or a modified one

• May need third-party neutral facilitator

Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Mapping

Who is not at the table?

Think of in terms of stakeholder groups & organizations

What is the approach

Stakeholder Approach

Stakeholder Approach Process

Who within the organization is your coalition going to approach

Who is the most appropriate person from your coalition to do the approach

What are 2-3 key messages that all coalition members will use to invite in new members

Crafting Stakeholder Approach Messages

Overall purpose of your coalition - What are trying to accomplish together?

Why are you approaching the stakeholder - What do they bring to the table: expertise/ perspective, relationships, energy, that your coalition needs?

What are you asking the stakeholder to do - Become a member of the coalition, serve in advisory capacity, to bring in voices/ perspectives/ relationships that the coalition doesn’t have but needs?

Stakeholder Engagement - Orientation

Do you need a small packet?

How about hosting a lunch n learn?

Avoid frustrating existing members and/ or making your meetings appear to be inefficient to the newer ones

Tools & Templates

www.caresharehealth.org

Peer-to-peer support & learning via the HCP list serve

Questions?Shelisa Howard-Martinez, MPA

Director of Community Engagement

showard-martinez@caresharehealth.org

THANK YOU!