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Organizing Multiple Conversations Across Your Community
June 25, 2013
• Building a planning team
• Recruiting facilitators and participants
• Planning for action
Today We Will Discuss
Presenters
Martha McCoyExecutive Director, Everyday Democracy
Daniel ClarkDeputy Director, AmericaSpeaks
National Dialogue on Mental Health
"Only 40% of people with mental illness receive treatment. We would not accept that for any other disease...." President Obama
"We have to change hearts and minds..." Secretary Sebelius
What is Creating Community Solutions?
• Effort to organize hundreds of community conversations and action plans
• Ten lead sites• Wide variety of other events: small
discussions, online dialogues, large planning processes
Creating Community Solutions Website
Goals of the Conversations
•Break down misperceptions and promote recovery and healthy communities
•Find innovative community-based solutions to mental health needs, focusing on young people
•Develop steps for communities to move forward, complements existing local activities
Benefits of Having Multiple Conversations
• Generates awareness• Builds relationships• Generates ideas for
action• Involves many kinds of
people• Community-wide impact
Creating a Planning Team
The purpose of the planning team is to:
• Establish diverse partnerships
• Plan the conversations• Recruit facilitators• Recruit participants• Plan for action
Conversation groups
Each conversation group:• Includes 8-10 people• Includes diverse
participants• Has two facilitators• Uses the Community
Conversation Discussion Guide to help structure the conversation
Sequence of the Conversations• Starting the
conversation• Identify challenges• Focusing on youth• Community solutions
Conversation FormatOne day event
• One half or full day event at large venue
• Conversations happen throughout the day with opportunities to share ideas
Multiple conversations over several days or weeks
•Large events to launch dialogues and share ideas
•Small groups meet four times for two hours each
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Develop Your MessageYour invitation should answer these questions:• What are we doing?• What are we trying to
accomplish?• Why does this matter to
the person you’re speaking with?
Strategize on How to Reach Out to Potential Participants
• Face-to-face conversations
• Phone calls• Presentations• Traditional media• Online media• Sample conversations
Take Extra Steps to Recruit These Groups
Youth: Think about creative ways to recruit from youth-led groups, as well as schools, clubs, sports teams or other organizations that serve youth. People who have lived experience and recovering from mental health problems: Think about reaching out to recovery groups, support groups, and organizations that support people with mental health challenges and their families. Culturally and economically diverse groups: Find a spokesperson or leader in these communities who can help spread the word. Also, seek out informal leaders from local businesses or community clubs.
Identify and Train Facilitators• Find trainers skilled in
facilitation• Plan and schedule
trainings• Recruit potential
facilitators, including youth
Event Details• Location• Schedule• Childcare• Translators• Refreshments• Transportation• Arrangements for hearing- or
visually-impaired participants• Distributing materials to team
members
Planning for Action• At a one-day event,
people will share action ideas at the end of the day
• If you’re holding multiple conversations, you need to plan a separate event
During the program, participants should:• Share ideas from their
conversation group• Prioritize action ideas• Create action teams
Questions?
Thank You!
Martha McCoyExecutive DirectorEveryday [email protected]
Daniel ClarkDeputy DirectorAmericaSpeakswww.americaspeaks.orgdclark@americaspeaks.org
For Any Questions, please contact: Matt LeighningerExecutive DirectorDeliberative Democracy Consortiumwww.deliberative-democracy.net [email protected]
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