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Community Organizing Program
Community Organizing
Community Organizing is an ongoing endeavor by a group of people to create and establish their own vision of a successful, healthy community.
Organizers from the Community Organizing Program
support local communities in planning and implementing prevention
strategies to reduce substance abuse and violence. Click on
the links below to meet your local Community Organizer and
learn about Community Organzing activities in your community.
Stages of Community Organizing
Community Organizers can work with communities helping them with:
- Getting Started (What do you want to have happen?)
- Group Development (Who else needs to be involved?)
- Community Assessment (What do we have to work with?)
- Planning (What should we do?)
- Implementing (How do we do it?)
- Evaluating, Replanning (How successful were we?)
How We Help Communities Organize
A King County Community Organizer facilitates group growth with specific tools. These tools may include the following:
- Developing Mission Statements
- Team Building
- Assessing Community Needs
- Goal Setting
- Developing a Prevention Plan/ Strategy
- Attracting and Maintaining Volunteers
- Fundraising
- Running a Meeting
- Understanding Communication/ Conflict Styles
- Youth Leadership
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For more information contact:
New Address:
King County Community Organizing Program
401 5th Ave, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98104
Laura Edwards, Coordinator
Office Contact Information
e-mail us
Updated: Aug. 13, 2007
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