Coalition Building & Partnerships Flashcards
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Which coalition development stage is characterized by members establishing trust, defining roles, and setting group norms?
Answer: Formation
The formation stage involves building trust, clarifying member roles, and establishing the norms that will guide coalition operations.
A prevention coalition wants to expand its reach into a skeptical community. The BEST initial strategy is to:
Answer: Identify and engage trusted community gatekeepers
Engaging trusted gatekeepers first builds credibility and opens doors in skeptical communities before broader outreach begins.
In a multi-sector coalition, a 'champion' differs from a standard member primarily because the champion:
Answer: Actively promotes the coalition's mission within their own sector
A champion serves as an advocate within their own organization or sector, leveraging insider credibility to advance the coalition's mission.
Which type of partnership agreement formally outlines shared resources, responsibilities, and decision-making authority between coalition member organizations?
Answer: Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
An MOU is a formal document that defines the terms of collaboration, including resources, roles, and authority between partnering organizations.
A coalition's steering committee is experiencing repeated conflicts between two dominant member organizations. The MOST effective facilitation approach is to:
Answer: Revisit the coalition's shared mission and ground rules
Returning to shared mission and established ground rules refocuses members on common purpose and de-escalates interpersonal or organizational conflicts.
According to the SPF (Strategic Prevention Framework), coalition capacity-building activities belong primarily in which step?
Answer: Capacity
The Capacity step of the SPF focuses on developing the infrastructure, resources, and skills needed to implement and sustain prevention efforts.
When presenting data to potential coalition partners from the business sector, prevention professionals should PRIMARILY emphasize:
Answer: Economic costs and workforce productivity impacts
Business-sector partners are most responsive to economic arguments such as lost productivity, absenteeism, and healthcare costs linked to substance misuse.