Methamphetamine and South Carolina

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Methamphetamine and South Carolina

• Creating Effective Solutions
• November 28 through December 1, 2005
• Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

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The Question

• How do we most effectively work toward
  Meth-free communities in South Carolina?

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The Facilitation Process

• The Social Reconnaissance Model
• of strategic planning and problem-solving.
• Simple, straightforward, brainstorming process
  that has basic three components

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Identifying

• Problems
• Barriers
• Solutions

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The Structure

• Attendees will be broken into small groups
• Day One by Discipline/Sector
• Day Two by Community/Jurisdiction

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The Rules

• Everyone will be given an opportunity to identify
  problems, barriers, and solutions
• Everyone has the right to pass if they have
  nothing to contribute at their designated time
• No debating, arguing, or blaming
• Be respectful
• Follow the facilitators direction
• Trust the process

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Voting

• After all ideas have been exhausted, participants
  will have the opportunity to prioritize the five
  problem statements that
• they consider most important.
• Each participant will have five votes, and they
  can use them however they see fit.
• The facilitator will tally the votes and the top
  five problem statements will be further explored
  in the next phaseBarriers

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Identifying Barriers

• Barriers are issues or activities that prevent
  us from effectively addressing the problems.
• Barriers represent a diagnosis of whats at the
  heart of the problem or what prevents progress
  toward resolving the problems.

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• Participants will brainstorm barriers for each of
  the first of the top five problems
• Similar ideas will be combined, and unclear
  statements will be clarified
• Participants will vote for the three barriers
  that they consider most important
• Group will move to the next problem statement and
  repeat the process until barriers have been
  identified and prioritized for all five problems

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Identifying Solutions

• To make this process most effective for
  developing a concrete strategy, solution
  statements must address the specific barriers
  that have been identified for each problem. When
  we remove the barriers, resources and programs
  easily follow. Solution statements should be as
  specific as possible.

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Time Permitting

• Brainstorm to identify resources
• Brainstorm to identify individuals who should
  be/might be asked to be part of the summit
  follow-up

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After the Summit

• NCPC will combine similar solution statements
  from other groups and will put them into an
  online survey form
• Participants will vote to prioritize
  themidentifying both the importance and
  feasibility of whats been recommended
• (we need everyones email address!)
• The survey should be online by mid December
• The deadline for voting will be January 6, 2006!
• Final report will be given to planning committee
  by January 18, 2006.