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Advocates and planners play crucial roles in community planning by ensuring needs of specific populations are met, addressing conflicts, and allocating resources fairly based on data. Striking a balance between advocacy and planning is essential for effective decision-making.
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Advocate – Planner Prevention and Early Intervention Community Planning Process
Advocate • ADVOCATES call attention to the needs of groups they represent and support targeting services to these groups.
Advocate • Advocates are important to the process because they: • Help ensure that attention is brought to the needs of specific populations • Question assumptions made by other members (i.e., other advocates) • Help ensure consideration of community factors • Help ensure appropriate strategies and interventions for particular populations
Planner • PLANNERS consider the needs of all target populations and subpopulations in Orange County, and prioritize needs and allocate resources to services based on sound data and objective criteria.
Planner • Each person, as a planner is, responsible for: • Managing conflict of interest • Taking responsibility for an equitable and sound process
Advocate and Planner • Managing the personal struggle between advocate and planner is essential so priorities are based on demonstrated relative need, and not the power, influence, or advocacy skills of any single member.
Advocate and Planner • The advocatein each member informs the process • The plannerin each member makes the decision