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Taking Actions
- Making It Work
- What Do We
Do Now
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Taking Actions -- Making It Work in Your Community
One of the biggest challenges will be going back to your own community and taking action on all of your ideas. This is not an easy task and you cannot do it alone. It will take time, work and commitment.
Here are some hints for implementation of Safe
from the Start work in your community.
- Review the Safe from the Start Workbook. It has been designed to help you identify areas that can move you from ideas to action.
- Do some research to identify who has the knowledge and expertise to help you.
- Start with people and contacts you already know and ask for their help.
- Determine who you need to collaborate with and note the benefits.
- Schedule a meeting to share the workbook, the videos on the effects of violence on a child's developing brain, and other information you have learned.
- Ask yourself: Who do you know that has a passion for the issue? Recruit them to help you.
- Seek out volunteers from all agencies and areas of the community.
- Invite other individuals you identified as experts with subject knowledge.
- Develop objectives or expectations for the meeting.
- Know what type of meeting you need (informational, planning, problem solving, etc.).
- Know what kind of involvement or participation you want to enlist at the meeting.
- Make sure the size of the group is manageable.
- Plan an agenda for the meeting. It maintains focus and attention, sets the tone and encourages participation.
- Be prepared.
- Solicit help from individuals attending the meeting (recorder, timekeeper, etc.).
- Encourage the expectation that everyone on the team will be responsible for something and will be accountable for reporting on the item.
- Determine tasks, deadlines and specific responsibilities.
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