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Webinar Trainings

ArCOP will be kicking off our Webinar Series for 2018 using the Community Tool Box developed by the University of Kansas. Please take this 2 minute survey so we can identify community topics that we will cover this year. We will be sending out a schedule of webinar training dates beginning in April. 

What city do you live in?
What city do you work in?

In order of importance, pick five topics that you would like ArCOP to present. See an explanation below of the list of lessons that will be covered.


Advocating for Change

  • Twenty Guidelines for Effective Advocacy
  • Preparing for Advocacy through Research 
  • Matching Advocacy Tactics with Your Situation and Goals
  • Implementing Advocacy Tactics with Allies and Against Opposition
  • Putting It All Together: Planning your Advocacy Effort

Analyzing Problems and Goals

  • Naming and Framing Problems and Goals
  • Analyzing the Problem or Goal 
  • Identifying Personal and Environmental Factors that Contribute to Risk and Protection
  • Identifying Targets of Change and Agents of Change: Who Can Benefit and Who Can Help
  • Generating and Choosing Solutions
  • Putting It All Together: Analyzing Your Community’s Problems and Goals

 Assessing Community Needs and Resources

  • Understanding and Describing the Community
  • Assessing Community Needs
  • Identifying Community Assets and Resources
  • Conducting Assessments
  • Doing a SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
  • Putting It All Together: Creating a Community Assessment

Building Leadership

  • Community Leadership: Some Key Ideas, Styles, and Qualities
  • Developing a Plan for Building Leadership
  • Collaborative Leadership
  • Servant Leadership
  • Developing a Great Leadership Team
  • Putting It All Together: Creating a Leadership Development Plan

Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships

  • Working Together for Community and System Changes
  • Creating a Community Coalition or Collaborative Partnership
  • Maintaining a Community Coalition or Collaborative Partnership
  • Putting It All Together: Creating and Maintaining Your New Coalition

Developing a Framework or Model of Change

  • Developing a Logic Model
  • Intervention Mapping
  • Reviewing and Building Consensus on the Framework or Model of Change
  • Putting It All Together: Developing Your Framework

Developing an Intervention

  • Developing a Preliminary Community Intervention
  • Reviewing and Selecting Best Practices
  • Adapting Interventions to Fit the Local Context
  • Ethical Considerations in Implementing Interventions 
  • Putting It All Together: Creating a Plan for Developing an Intervention

Enhancing Cultural Competence

  • Understanding and Assessing Cultural Competence
  • Building Culturally Competent Organizations
  • Supporting People Who Experience Discrimination
  • Building Culturally Inclusive Communities
  • Putting It All Together: Enhancing Cultural Competence

Evaluating the Initiative

  • Concepts and Attributes of Evaluation
  • Determining Who Cares and What They Care About
  • Developing Evaluation Questions Consistent with the Framework and Intervention
  • Gathering Evidence to Address the Evaluation Questions
  • Using Evaluation Data to Learn and Make Adjustments
  • Communicating the Findings to Relevant Audiences
  • Using Standards to Assess Your Evaluation Plan
  • Putting It All Together: Developing an Evaluation Plan

Implementing a Social Marketing Effort

  • Engaging in a Social Marketing Campaign
  • Listening to Those Whose Behavior Matters
  • Communicating Information to Key Audiences
  • Making the Desired Behavior Change Easier and More Rewarding
  • Supporting and Maintaining Behavior Changes
  • Using Principles of Persuasion to Influence Adoption and Use of Practices
  • Putting It All Together: Planning a Social Marketing Campaign

 Improving Organizational Management and Development

  • Developing Governance and Management Structures
  • Managing and Enhancing Human Resources
  • Creating Sound Business and Financial Operations
  • Ensuring Excellent Communications
  • Putting It all Together: Improving Your Organizational Management and Development

Increasing Participation and Membership

  • Identifying and Connecting With Those to be Reached
  • Recruiting New Members to the Organization or Effort
  • Engaging Community Members in the Effort
  • Maintaining Involvement and Sustaining Commitment of Members
  • Putting It All Together: Increasing Participation and Membership

 Influencing Policy Development

  • Setting the Public Agenda
  • Conducting Research to Influence Policy Development
  • Developing Policy Goals and Plans
  • Gaining Support for Policy Options
  • Assuring Accountability and Enforcement of Existing Policies and Laws
  • Putting It All Together: Planning to Influence Policy

 Sustaining the Work or Initiative

  • Developing a Plan for Sustaining Your Program or Initiative
  • Using the Twelve Tactics for Sustainability
  • Developing Business and Marketing Plans
  • Putting It All Together: Sustaining Your Work or Initiative

Writing a Grant Application for Funding

  • Preparing to Request Funding
  • Developing a Budget that Reflects Your Project or Initiative
  • Identifying and Communicating with Potential Funders
  • Putting It All Together: A Community Grant Application