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Power Point Presentations used throughout the two-day event:
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Collaboration Math: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Collaboration Math describes the application of this tool at the University of California Berkeley's Traffic Safety Center, illustrating how multidisciplinary groups can use this tool to increase effective collaboration. Download at: http://preventioninstitute.org/pdf/collab_math_1S_021904.pdf.

Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide
Often, the best way to ensure a comprehensive strategy is to build a diverse coalition. This tool guides advocates and practitioners through the process of coalition building, from deciding whether or not a coalition is appropriate to selecting the best membership and conducting ongoing evaluation. Download at: http://preventioninstitute.org/pdf/eightstep.pdf.

The Tension of Turf: Making it Work for the Coalition
The Tension of Turf paper was developed in response to something commonly experienced within coalitions - turf struggle. The document explores turf issues that commonly arise among coalition members and offers a set of recommendations for limiting the negative aspects of turf struggles. Download at: http://preventioninstitute.org/pdf/TURF_1S.pdf.

Eliminating Health Disparities: The Role of Primary Prevention
This paper describes how health disparities can be reduced through systems-based prevention strategies that address the underlying factors influencing health. Download at: http://preventioninstitute.org/pdf/Health_Disparities.pdf.

The Built Environment and Health: 11 Profiles of Neighborhood Transformation
With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health, Prevention Institute profiled eleven projects across the country in predominantly low-income communities, where residents and practitioners from multiple sectors partnered to make neighborhood-level changes to the built environment to promote health. Download at: http://preventioninstitute.org/pdf/BE_full_document_110304.pdf.

Cultivating Common Ground: Linking Health and Sustainable Agriculture
Cultivating Common Ground delineates opportunities for creating a synergistic movement between health and sustainable agriculture, in order to strengthen the momentum for a just, sustainable health-promoting food system. Opportunities to positively impact agriculture, the environment and health make this collaboration not only promising, but essential. Download the report funded by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation and Columbia Foundation at: http://preventioninstitute.org/pdf/Cultivating_Common_Ground_112204.pdf.

All of the tools and materials listed on this page can be accessed free of charge at: www.preventioninstitute.org.

     

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