LINKS TO RESOURCES ON COALITION DEVELOPMENT

Grants for tobacco prevention and control

Materials from the DPH and Smokefree WI sponsored web-based teleconferences in June-July 2003 titled 'Kick-starting your coalition: Increasing active community involvement'. Includes strategies for recruiting new members, energizing existing membership, delegating coalition work, energizing leadership, and sustaining the momentum

The Communities of Excellence handbook has a section on collaboratives and is recommended for information on coalition development.

Evaluating Collaboratives: Reaching the Potential: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pubs/pdf/G3658_8.PDF (PDF file will open in a new browser window)

Manual done by the UW - Extension (Ellen Taylor-Powell, Boyd Rossing, Jean Geran) on developing and evaluating collaborative relationships. Includes a glossary and is quite extensive in its discussion of collaboratives and the process of evaluating them.

Assessing your Collaboration: A Self-Evalutation Tool: http://www.joe.org/joe/1999april/tt1.html (will open a new browser window)

Tool done by Lynne M. Borden and Daniel F. Perkins in Journal of Extension. Focuses upon elements like connectedness, political climate, and networking. Includes a "collaboration progress checklist".

Developing coalitions for Tobacco - Free youth: http://www.nnh.org/tobacco/toc2.htm (will open a new browser window)

Large and comprehensive web site (done by the National Network for Health) that touches upon many issues within coalition development. Includes discussions on why tobacco control is a community issue, tips on forming a tobacco control coalition, developing the coalition's membership, developing coalition capacity, planning for action, and communicating with the community.

Key People to Contact for Coalition Development: http://www.nnh.org/tobacco/appb-2-2.htm (will open a new browser window)

Another part of the National Network for Health web site. This page gives a large (and literal) listing of people to contact for coalition development.

Volunteer Job Descriptions for Tobacco Control Coalitions: http://www.nnh.org/tobacco/appc-5-2.htm (will open a new browser window)

Once again, a part of the National Network for Health web site. This page gives tips and examples for recruiting volunteers and helping volunteers to better understand their place in the coalition.

Thirteen Policy Principles for Advancing Collaborative Activity Among and Between Tribal Communities and Surrounding Jurisdictions: http://www.naccho.org/files/documents/policy_principles.pdf (PDF file will open in a new browser window)

Guidelines for coalitions concerning the tribal community and how they will likely react to decisions or policies that affect them, and how the tribal community expects to be treated.

Literature Review for American Legacy Foundation's Statewide Youth Movement Against Tobacco Use: http://www.americanlegacy.org/content/PDF/Youth_Empowerment_Literature_Review.pdf (PDF file will open in a new browser window)

Prepared by Debra Holden, Karen Pendergast, and Dave Austen, this is a lengthy report on tobacco control. For coalition development, look to chapter 3, pages 3-1 to
3-10.