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Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a comprehensive organization and community change process that intentionally focuses on the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them. Through the use of unconditionally positive questions, AI broadens and deepens the imaginative capacity and accelerates the speed of innovation, leading to positive change. Visit appreciativeinquiry.case.edu for more information. Contacts: Brian Raison

Community Health Assessment
A community health assessment process for groups, organizations or community leaders is designed to identify the community’s health needs, concerns and challenges.  Organization leaders will gain a snapshot of health providers in the area and use data to develop strategies to improve health care and create a more livable, healthier community. Click on the program title to learn more. Contacts: Becky Nesbitt

Facilitation
Trained facilitators are available to assist your business/organization to work through a process to reach a productive end result. These facilitators have worked with numerous businesses/organizations to assist with ranking priorities with development, issues, or visions for the company. Contacts: Becky Nesbitt

Stakeholder & Focus Group Interviews
This process-driven activity for groups, organizations or community leaders will enable participants to tap into the insight of specific groups such as stakeholders or special community groups.  Participants will discover what community leaders, business owners, influencers, board members and others think and believe about the organization’s effectiveness, potential issues or concerns, or topics of interest. Click on the program title to learn more. Contacts: Becky Nesbitt

Strategic Planning and Alignment for Organizations or Communities
Strategic planning is a process for groups, organizations or community leaders to enable them to determine the organization’s purpose, clearly articulate goals, improve the desired outcomes for the organization or community, and to move the community or organization forward, to a collective, desired future. Click on the program title to learn more. Contacts: Becky Nesbitt

Strategic Planning
Contacts: Nancy BowenDavid CivittoloBrian Raison

Vision to Action
A program designed to take practitioners through the community action process: from getting started, to holding a community workshop, to implementing an action plan, to maintaining momentum. Some basic material is also provided on how to conduct a community assessment and strategies for monitoring and evaluating the process. Contacts: David CivittoloBrian Raison


Resources:
Extension Fact Sheets - Building Coalitions