Introduction
The Strengthening and Sustaining Ohio’s Suicide Prevention Coalitions (SSOSPC) Initiative provides grantees the opportunity to conduct a Community Readiness Assessment (CRA). Community readiness assessments help communities understand how ready a community is to address an issue that is impacting the health of the community. In addition, community readiness assessments help communities match interventions to the community’s level of readiness, thereby facilitating success. The assessment is part of the Tri-Ethnic Community Readiness Model developed by the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University. To support coalitions as they conduct their CRA, Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs and the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation developed a web-based training series. The training series is broken down into segments that provide informational videos, guidance documents, and handouts for each step of the CRA process.
Segment 1: Introduction to Community Readiness and the Community Readiness Assessment
Segment 1 introduces community readiness as an important construct for and provides an overview of how to assess community readiness.
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Assessing Community Readiness
Segment 2: Value Proposition for the CRA
Segment 2 discusses why coalitions and communities should assess community readiness and creates a value proposition for the community readiness assessment.
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Segment 3: Tools and Key Components of the CRA
Segment 3 takes a deeper dive into conducting a community readiness assessment and provides resources to assist with completing a community readiness assessment.
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Segment 4: Forming the CRA Team
Segment 4 focuses on roles needed to complete a CRA and on forming a CRA team. The segment highlights resources and training opportunities.
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Conducting Interviews
Segment 5: Basics of Conducting CRA Interviews
Segment 5 provides details on how to conduct community readiness interviews.
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Segment 6: Deciding Who to Interview and Engaging Their Participation
Segment 6 focuses on identifying key informants for community readiness interviews and on engaging them in community readiness interviews.
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Segment 7: Conducting CRA Interviews
Segment 7 provides additional details on how to conduct community readiness interviews, with a special focus on providing interviewers with the knowledge and tools needed to successfully conduct community readiness interviews.
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Segment 8: Transcribing CRA Interviews
Segment 8 provides details on transcription options and introduces Otter.ai as a transcription option.
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Scoring
Segment 9: Scoring Interviews
Segment 9 introduces the scoring process for the Community Readiness Model and provides details on how to score community readiness interviews. This training segment is relevant to the work of CRA scorers and to the project manager.
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Segment 10: Calculating Dimension-Specific and Overall Scores
Segment 10 is the second part of the scoring training for the Community Readiness Model. This segment focuses on calculating overall and average dimension scores and is designed to give project managers what they need once the CRA scorers have completed their work.
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Reporting & Results
Segment 11: Reporting CRA Results for SSOSPC-Funded Coalitions
Segment 11 focuses on creating community readiness assessment reports. This provides details on the reporting process for suicide prevention coalitions that are participating in the Strengthening and Sustaining Ohio’s Suicide Prevention Coalitions (SSOSPC) Initiative.
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Increasing Community Readiness
Segment 12: Strategies for Building Community Readiness
Segment 12 focuses on supporting coalitions participating in the Strengthening and Sustaining Ohio’s Suicide Prevention Coalitions (SSOSPC) Initiative in identifying strategies to build community readiness. This provides details on how to select strategies and approaches to build community readiness, as well as the planning tools for the SSOSPC Initiative.
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Conducting a CRA in Spanish
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Frequently Asked Questions
This page will include all FAQ documents related to the Community Readiness Assessment (CRA) for the Strengthening and Sustaining Ohio’s Suicide Prevention Coalitions (SSOSPC) Initiative.