Appendix E-1: Draft of Speak Out Agenda and Committee Members

WHAT: Trinity Court/Pritchard Park Community Forum
WHEN: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Saturday, March 20, 1999
WHO: Residents and Service Providers
WHERE: Outside the FRC or Pritchard Park Playground

Advertising the Forum:
Residents: The CD team will announce the Forum at the Trespass Law meeting scheduled for February 18th, and we will ask residents whom we interview or who serve on our Forum Planning Committee to spread the word. Flyers will be distributed to all apartment units the Thursday before the Forum (March 18th).

Service Providers: We will mail the same flyer to service providers at the beginning of March and follow up with a reminder call by phone on the Monday before the forum (March 15th).

1. Break the group into small discussion groups or keep as one large group?
2. Ensuring inclusion of Pritchard Park residents.
3. Concerns about the resident vs. service provider ratio
4. Location and weather: outdoors, proximity to Pritchard Park, use of the FRC?
5. Child care: other HBHE students will have arts and crafts, face painting, games, and/or a video in the FRC?.
6. Encouraging residents to participate in discussion.
7. Appropriate degree of formality: dress, presentation of qualitative rather than quantitative findings, use of low-tech visuals.

PROPOSED AGENDA

10:00 a.m. Set Up
CD team and any volunteers will set up chairs, rented tent (if necessary), flip charts, posters, child care materials, and refreshments.

11:00 a.m. Name Tags and Ice Breaker
We'll pose a question and ask residents and service providers in the audience to stand if they agree. Example: How many of you have lived in Trinity Court or Pritchard Park for more than two years?

11:15 a.m. Introduction of CD team Members and Objectives of CD Forum
Objectives of the CD Forum (as defined by Prof. Quinn) include: collaborate with community members to organize a community gathering; recruit community members and/or service providers to participate in and/or attend the forum; present information collected through the CD process to the community in a clear, organized, culturally appropriate, concise format; facilitate group discussion and/or activities with community members; organize logistics for the forum; field questions from community members and service providers; develop some strategy to sustain discussion initiated at the forum.

11:30 a.m. Overview of CD and Description of Our CD Experience
The purpose of the CD experience is to: apply the concepts, principles, and methods of a community diagnosis in a field setting; develop skills in gathering, understanding, and presenting secondary data; develop skills in interviewing and other forms of field observation in community settings; explore issues of culture, race, and class as they impact on health education practice in a community setting; and establish a conceptual foundation for health education practice in a community setting. The description of our CD experience will include: how long we've been working with the community, in what capacity we've interacted with residents and service providers, explaining that we collected secondary data, etc.

11:45 a.m. Presentation and Discussion of Topic Areas
Sense of Community
Trinity Court/Pritchard Park Kids
Trespass Law and Police Presence
Family Resource Center
We will start our presentation with positive issues such as the strong sense of community, rather than jumping into more controversial or negative issues, such as the Trespass Law. We will also focus on qualitative rather than quantitative information in our presentation. We will briefly introduce each topic area and then open the forum up to discussion from the audience. We are particularly concerned about getting residents to participate in the discussion. We want to make the forum a comfortable environment for them to share their ideas and views.

12:30 p.m. Special Acknowledgements and Door Prizes
Acknowledge the Forum Planning Committee. Donated door prize ideas include: Mary Kay products, children's books, Blockbuster Music gift certificates, Harris-Teeter or Food Lion gift certificates, Ben & Jerry's gift certificates, Taco Bell coupons, Franklin Street movie theater passes. Do these door prizes seem appropriate? Do you have connections that give you access to possible door prizes? Please suggest any other gifts that you think are appropriate.

12:45 p.m. Lunch and Mingle
We're hoping to get pizzas donated from Papa John's or Dominos and soft drinks and chips provided by the Health Behavior Health Education Department.

1:30 p.m. Clean up

Appendix D: List of Persons Interviewed

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Appendix E-7: Community Speak Out and Discussion Notes