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Effective Task Force Development:
An Analysis of a Community Task Force on Homelessness
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Annual Conference
July 9, 2007
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10 Steps to Developing a Task Force
1. Decide to create your Task Force
2. Research past efforts
3. Assemble the Task Force
4. Ensure consumer involvement
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10 Steps to Developing a Task Force (con’t)
4. Create the agenda
5. Keep Task Force members engaged
6. Keep your community involved
7. Political Considerations
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10 Steps to Developing a Task Force (con’t)
9. Generate the Final Report
10. Create an Implementation Board
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1. Why create a Task Force now? Appropriate political climate
Strong community interest in topic
Examples:
1. Prior groundwork with Mayor
2. Panhandler/homeless camps
Lessons Learned:
Attach Task Force to existing permanent entity
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2. Has this been done before in your community?
Applying research from the past
Integrate what you learn
Examples:
1. All six past efforts had single focus
2. None had implementation plansLessons Learned:Careful attention to the pressing issue of the day
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3. Assembling the Task Force?
Convener, Chair, staff How to select Task Force membersExamples:
1. Mayor, Chair, Coordinating Group 2. Selection of members by community sector
Lessons Learned: Introduce members by sector at each meeting
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4. Consumer involvement in the Task Force
Stigmas and myths of the topic
Creating status equality Examples:
1. The panhandling issue2. Consumer voice not valued
Lessons Learned:Address the issue of status equality
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5. Creating the agenda: Your compass for the process
Year-long agenda
Examples: 1. Created focus and direction2. Set the momentum
Lessons Learned: Hire facilitator for contentious meetings
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6. Keeping Task Force members Involved Value Task Force members Educate and informExample:
1. Consistent Mayoral and media focus2. Readings between meetings, public input
Lessons Learned: Assign relevant questions to each reading
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7. Keeping your community involved
Media campaign strategy Mechanisms for public inputExamples:
1. Shape pubic perception, create excitement
2. Website for input-plan for responding
Lessons Learned: Coordinated plan prior to Task Force beginning
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8. Political considerations: Coordinate, consult, or congratulate
Research concurrent efforts Develop relationshipsExamples:
1. Miscalculations made2. Implications
Lessons Learned: Be conscious of emerging and on-going efforts
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9. Generating the final report
Bold and pragmatic Measurable outcomes-community inputExamples:
1. Assigning action steps to agency/person2. Presentation to the community
Lessons Learned: Keep equal focus on year one and year ten solutions
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10. Implementation
Implementing the plan Political-proof the implementation boardExamples:
1. Oversight board2. Presentation to the community
Lessons Learned: Keep equal focus on year one and year ten solutions
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Conclusion
Task Forces are mechanisms for change
Foundation of democracy
Impossible becomes the attainable Greater good is served
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Nuts and Bolts of Effective Task Force Nuts and Bolts of Effective Task Force Development: An Analysis of a Development: An Analysis of a
Community Community Task Force on HomelessnessTask Force on Homelessness
An instructional handbook on Task Force development September publication -- www.resourcefulresults.com
By By
Hilary A. MorganHilary A. Morgan
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