community readiness assessment webinar 12 7-2017

HEALTH SYSTEMS DIVISIONProblem Gambling Prevention Services

Community Readiness Assessment Question and Answer Session

Presented by: Roxann Jones, Problem Gambling Preve ntion Servicesand

Carisa Dwyer, Sunshine Consulting

December 7, 201710:00 am – 11:30 am

HEALTH SYSTEMS DIVISONProblem Gambling Prevention Services

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Community Readiness Assessment Project

Meeting Setup• Meeting will be recorded and posted on Oregonpgs.org.

• All participants will be administratively muted to ensure sound quality of recording and clarity of presentations for participants.

• Utilize question feature to type your questions, we can unmute individual participants as necessary.


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AGENDA• Project Overview• Why We Are Supporting This Project• Letter of Intent• Budget• Why CRMA


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Problem Gambling Prevention Community Readiness Assessment Project Focus

Community readiness is the degree to which your community is prepared to take action to address an issue.


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Why Are We Supporting This Project?

� To gain insight into the readiness level of individual communities to address problem gambling.

� Effectively plan for problem gambling at the community level.� Statewide perspective of the readiness level of communities to

address problem gambling.� Information to guide the state Problem Gambling Services efforts to

provide support for communities.


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Community Readiness Survey

A community’s readiness to address an issue on 6 ke y dimensions:� Community efforts around problem gambling � Community knowledge of the efforts around problem gambling� Leaderships stance regarding problem gambling� Community knowledge of the issue of problem gambling� Community climate regarding problem gambling� Resources for problem gambling

In order to assess


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Communities readiness to address problem gambling based on:

Leadership


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Project Requirements & Commitments

• Letter of intent and proposed budget not to exceed $15,000.

• Implementation team (maximum of 3) attend full day training date TBD Spring 2018 on Community Readiness Model. (Budget for in Salem area)

• Identify implementation and scoring team


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• Complete the Readiness Model Assessment – Identify interviewees (minimum of 8 interviews)– Schedule and conduct interviews– Transcribe interviews– Participate in two hour scoring Webinar (minimum of

2 participants)– Score and interpret results of interviews


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• Prevention Coordinator to attend project completion and strategic planning full day training date TBD Spring of 2019. (Budget for in Salem area)

• Utilize findings of the Community Readiness Model Assessment (CRMA) to inform the 2019-2021 Problem Gambling Prevention Biennial Implementation Plan.


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Appropriate Use of Available Funds

� Staff time or sub-contracted service for required trainings and implementing the CRMA

� Transcription Services � Incentives


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Project Technical Assistance Available

� Problem Gambling Services has contracted with CarisaDwyer of Sunshine Consulting for technical assistance.� CRM� Scoring� Interpretation of Results � Planning


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Purpose of Community Readiness

To provide communities with the stages of

readiness for the development of appropriate

strategies that are more successful and cost

effective.

Credited to the National Center for Community and Organizational Readiness


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Communities are Always Ready for Something!

It’s not an issue of ready or not ready

but an issue of ready for what.



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What exactly is theCommunity Readiness Model (CRM)

• A model to mobilize a community, an organization or a social

network toward healthy change

• It has nine stages of readiness

• It measures six dimensions (or aspects) of a “community”

• Each dimension has a stage of readiness associated with it

• Each readiness stage has specific interventions that work most

effectively for that stage

• Integrates culture into the prevention process



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Resulting Products from Community Readiness

• A practical quantitative community diagnostic

• Valuable qualitative information that shapes and

informs strategy development

• Increased capacity for building additional prevention

efforts

• A practical structure for creating positive community

change

• Increased networking capabilities



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QUESTIONS


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QUESTIONS ASKED DURING WEBINAR

• Will the funding come in monthly payments or lump s um? Funding will be in one lump sum once the IGA or direct contract is amended.

• Due date for letter of intent and budget? January 15 th or no later than start of business on January 16 th due to Martin Luther King Holiday.

• Define community? Community for this project is your community at lar ge.• Is the data once collected property of OHA? The data collected while reported to OHA is

the individual communities data and can be utilized by that community as they see fit.• Can the funds be carried over into the next bienniu m? No the project must be completed

by the end of the biennium, June 30, 2019.• Is there a report due at the end of the project? Yes a brief report detailing your project and

findings will be due 45 days after the end of the b iennium August 15, 2019.• How long does an interview generally take? 45 minutes to an hour generally.• Difference between proposal and letter of intent? Letter of intent is a brief statement with

your agencies stated commitment to implement the pr oject signed by the appropriate agency designees on letterhead. Your proposed budge t must accompany your letter of intent.

• Additional information regarding transcription serv ices is available by request, and is also discussed during the recording.

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