Community Capacity Building
Community:
A group of people who know each other well enough that they can act together and support each other.
Capacity-building:
Strengthening the ability of communities to act on their own behalf to promote the wellbeing of their members.
The CCBI Planning Process:
Under CCBI, Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) will help local communities develop and implement community-driven plans to improve and sustain the behavioral and emotional wellbeing of their members. To support these community-driven efforts, BHRS provides facilitation, planning and data support to help communities track progress on their priority results over time, and some small, time-limited funding support to help jump start the community's actions.
The community-driven plans will emerge from these three basic questions:- Results communities are committed to achieve?
- Community-defined indicators of change: How will we know we are making a difference?
- Strategies to improve community-defined indicators of change?
Community Capacity-Building Projects:
- Asset-Based Community Development
- Promotores/Community Health Outreach Workers (P/CHOW)
- Faith-Based Behavioral Health Initiative
Theresa L. Zamora, MBA
Community Behavioral Health Consultant, Stanislaus County
Behavioral Health & Recovery Services
Prevention & Early Intervention
(209) 541-2416
