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Finding Unity in Community: How Building Consensus Can Shift the Dynamics of Support

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What Works: A Coalition Building Approach to Community Engagement

Research shows that a coalition building approach to community engagement is a powerful way to identify priorities, plan for action, and implement strategies that directly address issues affecting youth and families in their communities.

Finding Unity in Community: How Building Consensus Can Shift the Dynamics of Support draws on over a decade of evaluation with communities using the Evidence2Success® framework. Whether you are part of an existing coalition seeking evidence-based practices, or are just getting started with coalition work, this action guide is for you.

Get Started with Your Community

To learn how your community might benefit from using a coalition building approach, download these documents now:

We encourage you to print, share, and discuss these documents with fellow community members interested in learning how other communities have benefited from using coalition building strategies to create positive change. Dive deep with key questions to guide how lessons learned might apply in your community.

This is the third of five action guides based on core components of the Evidence2Success framework that has been implemented in the communities of Providence, Rhode Island; Selma City, Alabama; Kearns, Utah; Mobile, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee; and, Miami, Florida.

We kept saying it was really important for all of us collectively to work together. That’s a conversation that I still hear even now as we talk to different segments of people… We’re all living here, so we all want it to improve.

– A coordinator from a community-based nonprofit