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Creating Community Solutions GIH Behavioral Health Funders Network June 20, 2013 Todays Presenter Today s Presenter Dr. Carolyn Lukensmeyer Executive Director, National Institute for Civil Discourse What is Creating Community What is Creating


  1. Creating Community Solutions GIH Behavioral Health Funders Network June 20, 2013

  2. Today’s Presenter Today s Presenter Dr. Carolyn Lukensmeyer Executive Director, National Institute for Civil Discourse

  3. What is Creating Community What is Creating Community Solutions? • Effort to organize hundreds of community conversations and community conversations and action plans • Ten lead sites • Wide variety of other events: small discussions, online dialogues large planning dialogues, large planning processes

  4. Goals of the Deliberations oa s o e e be a o s Get Americans talking Get Americans talking about mental health to break down break down misperceptions and promote recovery and promote recovery and healthy communities

  5. Goals… Find innovative Find innovative community ‐ based solutions to mental solutions to mental health needs, with a focus on helping focus on helping young people

  6. Goals… Goals… Develop clear steps p p for communities to move forward in a way that complements existing p g local activities

  7. CreatingCommunitySolutions.org CreatingCommunitySolutions.org

  8. Who is involved? Who is involved? • Federal agencies Federal agencies • Local governments • Nonprofit organizations fi i i • Faith communities • Professional associations • National & local funders National & local funders • Networks of all kinds

  9. Creating Community Solutions Team Creating Community Solutions Team • National Institute for Civil • In concert with: Discourse Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services • Everyday Democracy Administration Administration • America Speaks A i S k • National Issues Forums Institute Institute • National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation • Deliberative Democracy Consortium

  10. What is Happening in the Lead Sites? What is Happening in the Lead Sites? • Mayor is calling for engagement on mental Mayor is calling for engagement on mental health • Local organizing team working either with • Local organizing team working either with AmericaSpeaks, Everyday Democracy, or NIF Institute to plan process Institute to plan process • Large ‐ scale deliberative event as a focus point of local process i f l l

  11. S Sequence of the Discussions f th Di i • Starting the Conversation • Identify the Challenges • Focusing on Youth • Community Solutions

  12. What’s in the Toolkit? What s in the Toolkit? • Information brief – data on mental health Information brief data on mental health • Discussion guide – useful for events of various sizes; also being used to frame online sizes; also being used to frame online dialogues • Organizing guide – lays out steps for small O i i id l f ll groups, larger forums, big planning processes

  13. Coordinating, Amplifying CCS Online Coordinating, Amplifying CCS Online • Creatingcommunitysolutions org features an Creatingcommunitysolutions.org features an online map that helps potential allies find one another & will display outcomes of events another & will display outcomes of events • Theciviccommons.com/mentalhealth features an online dialogue on mental health an online dialogue on mental health • Mentalhealth.gov provides information, ways to find local data and mental health fi d l l d d l h l h professionals

  14. What You Can Do What You Can Do • Help spread the word • Encourage organizations in your community to put a pin in the map • Help us find local allies, through the map or through us • Upload your outcomes at www.creatingcommunitysolutions.org/outcomes • Help support additional sites H l ddi i l i

  15. Thank You! Thank You! Carolyn Lukensmeyer Executive Director National Institute for Civil Discourse www.nicd.arizona.edu cjlukensmeyer@email.arizona.edu

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