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Engagement and Prioritization

 

Understanding a community's concerns enables us to effectively characterize its needs and respond with appropriate interventions. In order to assess communities and create a community profile, we need to discover those things that matter to the community, what issues the community feels are most important to address, and what resources are available to bring about change.

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Engaging the Community

1. We have a group of very divergent thinkers and need to get them to converge their ideas quickly. What questions do we ask?  How do we structure this process so we can come out with some answers?

The Public Health Memory Jogger II has a number of ways to bring groups to a concensus.  This pocket tool, available from the Public Health Foundation, identifies seven tools that can be used by community health assessment committees to make decisions.  Tools include a flowchart, Fishbone diagram, prioritication and a multi-voting approach.  For more information, visit http://www.phf.org/resourcestools/Pages/Public_Health_Memory_Jogger_II.aspx. There is a cost for the Memory Jogger.  Contact Kansas Health Matters members to see if we have some spare copies available.

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