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A New England Community Water Fluoridation Campaign: Using Social Marketing and Community M obilization for Policy Change. Catherine Hayes, D.M.D, Dr.Med.Sc. New England Community Water Fluoridation Campaign.
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A New England Community Water Fluoridation Campaign: Using Social Marketing and Community Mobilization for Policy Change Catherine Hayes, D.M.D, Dr.Med.Sc.
New England Community Water Fluoridation Campaign • With support from DentaQuest, HRiA is designing, implementing and evaluating a CWF effort in two states, Massachusetts and Vermont via two main strategies: • Community coalition building • Community-based social marketing campaign
Definition of a Coalition • An organization of individuals representing diverse organizations, factions or constituencies who agree to work together in order to achieve a common goal. - Feighery & Rogers, 1989 • An organization of diverse interest groups that combine their human and material resources to effect specific change that members are unable to bring about independently. - Brown, 1984
Why Community Coalitions? • Address new and broader issues • Encourage collaborative problem solving • Create culturally relevant solutions • Provide more cost effective and coordinated services – minimize duplication of services • Leverage additional/new resources • Increase communication within community
Community Readiness… … is the extent to which a community is adequately prepared to mobilize for and implement a project or initiative Role of coalition (readiness) in establishing community readiness Source: J. Liebman and K. Abrams, The Six Stages of Community Mobilization for Prevention, Southwest Center for the Application of Prevention Technology (CAPT), University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Draft, 2003.
Community Involvement • Minigrant to Community • Hire coordinator from the community in collaboration with the coalition
Social Marketing • Turning audience insight into effective strategies • Creating multi-strategy solutions • Understanding where you’re coming from
Social Marketing • Focus Groups • Stakeholder Interviews • Creative Brief • Design concepts • Campaign Implementation
Evaluation • Public Support • Polling • 10 days before campaign, midpoint, & end of campaign • Policy Change • Key Informant interviews • Review of documents/media
Public Relations Strategy • “War Room” – PEW Rapid Response team
Discussion • Progress • Challenges • Successes