Capacity Building

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Capacity Building
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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.

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Good Capacity Building Addresses the Entire
Community

• Dont 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.

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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

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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

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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

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Who needs to be At the Table
There are those who need to be in the know but
not necessarily at the table
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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

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Programs Have a beginning and end, short term
All programs. Including, but not limited to,
Evidence Based Programs proven or model

• 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

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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

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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

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Whats Working and Whats 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.

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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?

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Capacity Building In Summary

• Key to sustainability
• Addresses the whole community
• Builds on Policies, programs, practices already
  in place
• Attends to and assists human resources and
  physical locations already in place.
• Shows the gaps in infrastructure and designs ways
  to fill those gaps.