Collaboration Tools and Stories
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Tool: Tips for Ensuring a Culturally Competent Collaboration |
This resource presents a starting point for ensuring the cultural competence of your collaborative efforts. |
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Tool: Tips for Healthy Collaborations |
Successful collaboration requires careful maintenance and occasional compromise. This tool presents some tips for keeping your collaboration healthy over time. |
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Tool: Tips for Successful Recruitment |
This tool presents some tried-and-true tips from seasoned prevention practitioners on “getting to yes.” |
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Story: Unique Public-Private Partnership Strengthens New Hampshire Prevention |
A 10-year, $12 million philanthropic initiative from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation extends the prevention reach of New Hampshire’s Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services. |
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Tool: Using Social Media to Facilitate Collaboration |
This tool offers an introduction to the role that social media can play in building and growing public health collaborations. |
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Story: Vermont Doctors and Pharmacists Partner to Address Opioid Misuse |
For the Brattleboro Area Prevention Coalition’s Rx Abuse Prevention (RAP) Team, the first step in reducing high rates of opioid misuse is building channels of communication and fostering a culture of collaboration between doctors and pharmacists. |
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Tool: What Do We Mean by Resources? |
Prevention practitioners often collaborate to maximize resources and/or fill resource gaps. This tool describes three types of prevention resources— fiscal, human, and organizational. |
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Tool: Why Should We Collaborate? |
Discover some of the important reasons why collaboration in substance abuse prevention is essential. |
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Story: Wisconsin’s Dose of Reality Campaign Warns Residents about Rx Drug Misuse |
Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services teamed up with the Department of Justice and other state agency partners to design and deliver a statewide media campaign to prevent prescription drug misuse. |
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Tool: Worksheet: Analyzing Existing Partnerships |
Use this tool to better understand the skills and expertise that current partners bring to your prevention table. |
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Tool: Worksheet: Are You Ready? Assessing Readiness to Collaborate |
Use this checklist to find out if your prevention team or organization is ready to engage in collaboration. |
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Tool: Worksheet: Assessing the Readiness of Potential Partners to Collaborate |
Use this tool to prioritize potential partners, based on their readiness to work with you. |
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Tool: Worksheet: Creating a Memorandum of Agreement |
This worksheet offers a template for creating a simple memorandum of agreement. |
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Tool: Worksheet: Determining Member Responsibilities |
This worksheet can help you successfully match workgroup activities with member interests and skills. |
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Tool: Worksheet: Developing a Recruitment Action Plan |
This tool will help you map out and track who, when, and how to reach out to potential partners. |
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Tool: Worksheet: Effective Social Media Planning |
This worksheet presents important questions to consider prior to establishing a professional social media presence. |
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Tool: Worksheet: Identifying New Partners |
This tool can help you detect any gaps in your current prevention resources and identify potential partners to fill them. |
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Tool: Worksheet: Revisiting Membership |
This tool presents questions you can ask yourself or others on your team to facilitate a discussion about membership. |
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Story: Wyoming PMO Integrates the Prevention of Substance Misuse and Suicide |
Wyoming’s Prevention Management Organization represents a unique approach to addressing substance use and suicide prevention in an integrated way. |
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Tool: You Gotta Hear This! Developing an Effective Elevator Pitch |
Learn how to develop a compelling argument, or “elevator pitch,” for asking potential partners to collaborate. |