collaboration toolkit | module 3

Getting Started: Organizing for Success

Tools and resources for organizing.

instructional Videos

Learning Series

Overview of This Module

This video provides a brief overview of Getting Started: Organizing for Success.

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Call to Action and Readiness Assessment

In this video, learn how to assess your community's and team's readiness to take action.

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How to Form the Local Team

This video offers tips on mobilizing leaders in your community to take part in your justice system change and improvement planning process.

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Downloads

Companion Resources

Call to Action & Readiness Assessment

Develop Your Call to Action
PDF

Tips for developing a compelling message or business case for system change in your community.

Justice System Change Readiness Assessment
PDF

A tool for assessing your community's readiness for justice system change.

Forming the Local Team

Sample Composition of Planning Team
PDF

Suggestions on who should be on your planning team.

Sample Planning Agendas and Team Charters
PDF

Sample planning agendas and team charters used in the featured counties.

practitioner interviews

Perspectives from the Field

Call to Action

Listen as county officials share their call to action. They discuss how they rallied leaders in their community to engage in the justice system change and improvement planning process, whether by addressing an urgent need or pursuing opportunities for new or ongoing improvements.

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Who to Involve

Listen as county officials share who participated in their planning and change efforts. They also offer advice for other leaders considering a similar change process, including recommendations on whom to involve and why.

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