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Collaboration is no longer optional!

Collaboration is no longer optional!. Why Collaborate?. Address Human Service Issues Do More with Less/ Create Efficiencies Promote Advocacy of an Issue Expand Interventions to all the Community Encourage Social Innovation Improve Program Quality Create Social Change

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Collaboration is no longer optional!

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  1. Collaboration is no longer optional!

  2. Why Collaborate? • Address Human Service Issues • Do More with Less/Create Efficiencies • Promote Advocacy of an Issue • Expand Interventions to all the Community • Encourage Social Innovation • Improve Program Quality • Create Social Change • Build Healthy Communities

  3. City of RacineMayor’s Office of Strategic Partnerships • Financial Fitness Coalition • Out of School Time Committee • Racine Small Business Enterprise Initiative • Faith Builds Community – Housing Services • www.cityofracine.org/Mayor

  4. Homeless Assistance Coalition • Creation of HALO • Membership Structure • Advocacy • Creating Efficiencies • Evaluation • Quality Improvements • Policy Change

  5. Levels of Relationships

  6. Key Components

  7. The Ideal Coalition • Diversity is valued and practiced • Builds a sense of community • Holistic and comprehensive • Empowers/engages the community • Flexible and responsive • Incubator for solutions to community issues

  8. Barriers • Limited Vision/Failure to Inspire • Lack of Clear Purpose • Lack of Understanding Roles/responsibilities • One dominant partner/partners competing • Lack of support from the Exec • Differences in philosophies/work manners • Lack of Commitment; unwilling participants • Unequal balance of power and control

  9. Barriers • Hidden Agendas • Failure to Communicate • Lack of Evaluation/Monitoring Systems • Failure to Learn • Too Little Time for Effective Consultation • Financial/Time Commitments Outweigh Potential Benefits • Key Interests/People Missing from the Partnership

  10. Collaborative Work Plan Worksheet • Establishing and Maintaining Buy-In • Being Realistic • Having Measurable Results • Being Accountable

  11. Current Issues Employment Homelessness Literacy Housing Youth Development Teen Pregnancy Financial Literacy Drug Prevention

  12. Exercise • Break Into Groups • Pick One Issue • Using the Collaborative Work Plan Worksheet, identify strategies that will create a collaborative partnership

  13. Sustainability • Institutionalization and Adoption of Programs and Changes • Policy Change • Building Community Ownership, Capacity, and Norms • Finding Resources to Sustain the Effort

  14. COLLABORATION • COMING TOGETHER = A BEGINNING • STAYING TOGETHER = PROGRESS • WORKING TOGETHER = SUCCESS

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