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SMALL REMINDERS
A community assessment will organize the partner planning process. Find out what community-based organizations exist in your community, what services do they offer, and if they are they interested in partnering before you begin planning.
Tabletop exercises make it real. By confronting a realistic I & Q situation and working through our responses, both Public Health and our community partners were able to problem solve real issues during the exercise.
Tabletop exercises make it real. By confronting a realistic I & Q situation and working through our responses, both Public Health and our community partners were able to problem solve real issues during the exercise.
Isolation & Quarantine
Community Partners
Lessons Learned
WHAT RELATIONSHIPS ALREADY EXIST?
Utilize existing relationships. Make a list of existing allies and engage them to help form new partner relationships.
FIND THE COMMON LANGUAGE
Find a common language. Preparedness and emergency management have not historically intersected with community-based organizations. In order to work together, we needed to create a common language.
Develop a process for memorializing partner agreements. The hardest work is identifying partners and negotiating mutually beneficial relationships. However people move on from key roles and agencies change over time. To provide stability to the plan and ensure clarity it is critical to formalize partner agreements through a contractual memorandum of understanding or other tool.
Community Partners
Lessons Learned
WHAT RELATIONSHIPS ALREADY EXIST?
Utilize existing relationships. Make a list of existing allies and engage them to help form new partner relationships.
FIND THE COMMON LANGUAGE
Find a common language. Preparedness and emergency management have not historically intersected with community-based organizations. In order to work together, we needed to create a common language.
Develop a process for memorializing partner agreements. The hardest work is identifying partners and negotiating mutually beneficial relationships. However people move on from key roles and agencies change over time. To provide stability to the plan and ensure clarity it is critical to formalize partner agreements through a contractual memorandum of understanding or other tool.
