Collaborative Alliance
Worksheet (Assignment 2)
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, Collaborative Alliance Worksheet (Assignment 2)
Collaborative Alliance Worksheet
Instructions:
Use this worksheet to identify potential partners and use their resources to begin to prepare a
culturally sensitive strategic plan for collaboration.
1. Involve community leaders. Development of the process innovation must involve at least
five Chinle community stakeholders, key conveners, or community leaders. Describe these five
individuals in the following chart. Use the Chinle Service Unit Profile to guide your answers.
Who? What? Why?
(Name, position, (Description of involvement) (Description of goal of
organization) involvement)
● These individuals would be Leaders of local Navajo
responsible for collecting communities consider themselves
community surveys about to be the voice of the community
current health choices, (Chinle Service Unit Profile, n.d.).
their experiences with the Their input is valuable because it
organization, etc. is likely to reflect the sentiments
● The responses will be used of the target population we intend
to improve programs and to serve. This is critical to the
outreach and to ensure the program’s success and as such,
program is relevant and even though members of this
Leaders of local effective. group may not have titles, they
Navajo communities are just as important as other
collaborators. They have the ear
and heart of the people, therefore,
the have the most direct influence
on behavioral norms in the area
and with government agencies.
They also provide a third
perspective on the efficacy of
program initiatives and the
likelihood of community
acceptance of plans.
● Provide guidance and Traditional healers’ main concern
insight into the traditional is the preservation of traditional
practices and beliefs that medicine as a positive approach to
must be honored with any health in the community. (Chinle
program that is presented. Service Unit Profile, n.d.) As such
● Educate project leadership they will ensure that the traditions
on the customs and that are so closely held by the
Traditional healers or intersects of traditional Navajo are honored and at the
medicine men healing practices and very least acknowledged through
western medicine. the program. They are a part of
this group out of respect for their
position in the community, their
expertise in Navajo culture, and
their experience in healing the
community.
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