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Your in-school conference provides a wonderful opportunity to establish your own local community roundtable. These community coalitions are designed bring communities together to develop action plans to reduce youth violence throughout the year.
When establishing your roundtable, try to have at least one representative from each sector identified in the community wheel. This will offer you a variety of perspectives and resources as you develop specific plans to prevent and reduce youth violence throughout the year.
During the conference, explain the concept behind the roundtables and offer an opportunity for interested individuals to sign up. Be sure to get all of their contact information so you can let them know when and where your roundtable will meet.
On the sign-up forms, also ask for suggestions on new community-wide initiatives to reduce violence.
It is our intention for all of the local roundtables in the country to unite to form a national roundtable through our website. Please be sure to share your progress with other roundtables through our message boards.
For additional tips on setting up a community coalition, check out a guide developed by Study Circles called Organizing Community-wide Dialogue For Action and Change.
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