Unlocking the power of people.

The Healthy Communities Partnership program helps communities determine their unique assets, challenges and goals, based on the premise that everyone who is affected by a decision should have the opportunity to be involved in the decision-making process. Community leadership teams, consisting of a diverse group of community members, receive training designed to help them lead their community through a time-tested process that results in the development of a locally shared vision and integrated plan. From that plan come a number of goals and projects that require local volunteers and resources to be successful.

Healthy Community Partnership Training Components

• Intro to Community Development – Principles of successful community development.
  
  
• Effective Team Building – Effective communication, group techniques and conflict management skills.
  
  
• Visioning – How to conduct local visioning processes and identify community opportunities, challenges and a common vision of the future.
  
  
• Asset Mapping and Resource Identification – Learn how to identify the gifts of individuals, associations and institutions in your community and mobilize them to accomplish your goals.
  
  
• Planning and Project Implementation – Forming task forces, completing actions plans and organizing for success.
  
  
• Sustaining – Ways to sustain community efforts into the future, thinking outside the box and celebrating success.