Leadership for Change
Achieving lasting, systemic change requires leaders with vision, group skills, and knowledge of how to promote change within systems and communities. Leaders with vision can articulate problems and describe potential solutions in language that appeals to a broad base of stakeholders. Leaders not only provide vision, but must also be able to guide decision making and program implementation. Individuals or coalitions in a leadership role must be able to select and prioritize the changes that will produce positive, lasting outcomes and to plan for those changes throughout the grant period.
Focus on Systems Change
Systems change is the process of improving your community's ability to function more effectively. This is an effective strategy for sustainability because through changing the system, you can institutionalize your program's functions into the community. For example, an effective way to develop and sustain programs would be to create a community-wide advisory board committed to working collaboratively as part of their long-range vision to create lasting change.
Changing the larger environment: Critical components
http://captus.samhsa.gov//northeast/resources/prevention_materials/critical_components/envicr.cfm
Systems Change
http://www.wkkf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=90&CID=3&ItemID=5000005&NID=5010005&LanguageID=0
Systemic Renewal
http://www.dropoutprevention.org/effstrat/systemic_renewal/overview.htm
Facilitating Connections Among Community Leaders
As the head of your program, you have the capacity to bring together various leaders of your community for implementing the broader vision of your program. Collective decision-making among various partners in the community may be an efficient way to maintain program functions because they can create pools of resources to fund program functions, create policies or procedures to integrate your program functions into the way your community operates, and promote and market your program to all segments of the community.
Four World Centre for Developmental Learning – Recreating the World – A Practical Guide to Building Sustainable Communities
http://fourworlds.ca/linkages.html
United Indians of All Tribes- National Community Building
www.unitedindians.com
Maximizing school and Community Support (Web site)
http://www.northeastcapt.org/PRODUCTS/faq/faq36.html
Organization facilitators: A change agent for systemic school and community changes (Guidebook)
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/Report/orgfacrep.pdf
Sustaining school-community partnerships to enhance outcomes for children and youth: A guidebook and tool kit
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/sustaining.pdf
Building organizational collaborations
http://crs.uvm.edu/nnco/
Influence Local Policies and Procedures
Policies and procedures are structural changes in your community that will continue to impact the health and well-being of tribal youth long after the people who created the policies and procedures have gone. Some policies may include setting aside a fraction of funds for prevention programs for youth or putting in place a requirement that all youth must participate in a certain number of hours of prevention programming.
Example: Leaders of the community may decide to create an assessment and referral procedure for all youth with juvenile justice offenses. Once this procedure is in place, every time a youth enters the system, they are able to receive the services (e.g., drug and alcohol treatment, mental health services, restorative justice practices) they need to become healthy individuals.
American Indian Policy Center – New Project: To Build A Bridge
http://www.airpi.org/projects/index.html
National Congress of American Indians – Policy Initiatives Across Indian Country
http://www.ncai.org
Our Model of Practice: Building Capacity for Community and Systems Change (Toolkit)
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/EN/section_1002.htm
Thinking Broadly: Financing Strategies for Comprehensive Child and Family Initiatives (Guide/Publication)
http://www.financeproject.org/Publications/ThinkingBroadly.pdf
Teaming up: Using the IDEA and Medicaid to secure comprehensive mental health services for children and youth (Report)
http://www.bazelon.org/issues/children/publications/teamingup/report.pdf
Technical Assistance Sampler on Thinking About and Accessing Policy Related to Addressing Barriers to Learning. Center for Mental Health in Schools (Guide)
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/Sampler/Samp1a.pdf
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