Coalition Development

Participants will explore coalition readiness, community change theory and the Ecological Perspective. They will identify developmental tasks of teams/coalitions, develop strategies to address issues identified by teams and use specific tools to enhance team/coalition building.

Trainer: Steve Ridini
Steven Ridini, Ed.D., is Vice President of Programs at The Medical Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, an organization which was founded to help people lead healthier lives and create healthy communities through prevention, health promotion, and research. He was a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he taught a course on School Community Partnerships: Supporting Healthy Youth. He is the former director of a Massachusetts Regional Prevention Center in Framingham. Steve has a Doctorate of Education and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University, and has over 18 years of experience in public health. He is the author of a book on social change, Health and Sexuality Education in Schools: The Process of Community Change. Steve is also a Northeast CAPT associate.