Capacity Building

Good Capacity Building is a Key Part of Sustainability

Capacity building is purposeful. It brings the right people to the table. Shows a plan for developing capacity among prevention partners.

Describes and identifies partnership members (people), policies, programs, practices, physical locations and funding already in place.

Has representation from target populations

Include strategies for addressing gaps identified from the organizational capacity assessment.

Good Capacity Building Addresses the Entire Community

Don’t micromanage. Seek systemic, community-level change.

Have results of the community readiness assessment been described and integrated into the Community prevention plan?

Has the Community prevention partnership described its capacity to implement its prevention plan?

Describe the plan one component at a time.

Good Capacity Building Addresses Community Readiness

Building Community Readiness Key Stakeholders set a tone in the community

Who are they? Are they on board?

Does the community perceive it as an issue Do we have feedback from the stakeholders?

Educate key stakeholders Training and communication

People/Human Resources: those who know

Civic and Volunteers Cultural and ethnic diversity Prevention Government: Justice, law,

state and local Treatment Parenting Religious and fraternal Business Schools, counselors, teachers,

social workers, coaches Coalitions Economic conditions

Geographic knowledge Youth Youth-serving Healthcare and mental health State and local government Community leadership Data and qualitative resources,

statistics Accounting, Information technology Target population

representation Media

No one does anything without having something in it for themselves

We innately differ from each other in very important ways: we want different things we have different motives and purposes we differ in values, beliefs, needs, drives,

impulses and urges we think, conceptualize, understand,

comprehend, and interpret reality different

Who needs to be “At the Table”

SPF-SIG Organization

LCC/Fiscal Agent/OtherLAC LEOW

Workgroups

Youth Evaluation

Media Program & Policy

Cultural Competence Training & Outreach

Technical Assistance DMHA

Evaluation

There are those who need to be in the know – but not necessarily at the table

Practices: Purposeful, sustained, continuous, a movement, not a program

Town Meetings A well planned capacity building component is marketing!

Marketing includes ongoing newspaper articles, television blurbs, advertising events, newsletters, anything that lets the community know you are there. Logo (we can often find free logo for non-profits). Sustained conduit of information to the public.

Mandatory school courses geared toward substance prevention (InDOE: current health issues)

Developmental asset framework Take It Back FACE ATOD survey LCC grant offers 4Community (United Way) Grant Communities Mobilizing for Change

Programs: Have a beginning and end, short term

Afternoons ROCK In Indiana LifeSkills Project Alert Project Northland Too Good for Drugs and

Violence Insight TEG Wrap-around program Youth camp

Speakers Red Ribbon Week Kick Butts Day Publications All Stars Class Action ATHENA DARE to be You Family Matters Positive Action

All programs. Including, but not limited to, Evidence Based Programs proven or model

Policies School policies and rules about substance use County ordinances on social hosting and serving Mandatory community service learning Drug-testing policies Smoke-free ordinances Drug court Diversion programs Juvenile detention Tickets for underage consumption State laws

Physical Locations

Schools Churches Youth Centers YMCA After-School Programs Government Center Zoo Amusement Park Parks Group homes Homeless shelters Community swimming pools and recreation centers Child care centers

What’s Working and What’s Not

Capacity is building on what is already in place and not “reinventing the wheel.”

Where the needs are high and the resources are few, add to what is already in place and create new practices, policies and programs to fill the gaps.

Look at the issue from all angles.

Addressing the issues Where is the gap/risk factor? How do we know it is a gap? Is the gap related to physical, policy, practice, financial,

human, cultural? What is filling the gap currently? What will fill the gap? Who can help fill the gap? (Additional staffing, training, or

technical assistance needed to implement selected strategies, collect evaluation data, and maintain administrative requirements)

Who will it address? Where will the gap get filled (physically)? What will be the sustainable funding/resource to fill the gap?

Capacity Building In Summary:

Key to sustainabilityAddresses the whole communityBuilds on Policies, programs, practices

already in placeAttends to and assists human resources

and physical locations already in place.Shows the gaps in infrastructure and

designs ways to fill those gaps.