Community Planning Toolbox

This toolkit outlines the partnership and roadmap PCANC and its partner communities engage in for the building of Community Prevention Action Plans.

The North Carolina Early Childhood Action Plan (ECAP) outlines a cohesive vision, sets benchmarks for impact by the year 2025, and establishes shared stakeholder accountability to achieve statewide goals for young children from birth through age eight.

Resources for establishing the infrastructure of a Collective Impact Backbone.

Included in the guide are some helpful suggestions for conducting a successful Community Café in your community. In addition to using the Alliance Café Guide and watching the PCANC Community Café Webinar, this guide can be used as a checklist for the logistical side of the planning and facilitation of a café.

Community Café Guide for hosts developed by the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds.

Invite organizations and community members interested in the purpose of the café. Use this Community Café Invitation as an example of what should be included in your invitation.

Invite organizations and community members that are a part of your planning work. Use this training flyer as an example of all that should be included when you conduct a Protective Factors training.

This guide will help you sort through the types and sources of data to assemble when mapping assets.

Use this tool comes from Colorado’s Community Based Child Abuse Prevention work and can be used to rate how well the potential priority meets specific criteria.

Developing an action plan is a helpful way to solidify activities and identify partners, financial resources, and other inputs that are important to initiating change in your community. Use this template to guide prevention efforts during your planning period.

Identify trends and data, risk factors and protective factors for your community.

This document highlights potential talking points, statistics, and an elevator speech that can be used by any planning committee member when talking about their Community Prevention Action Plans.

Presentation by Colorado’s Community Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) state leaders on the Components of the Colorado Child Maltreatment Prevention Framework for Action. This is a great example of local planning and collaboration that result in increased relationships, cross referrals, resource sharing, and identifying common ground in child maltreatment prevention planning.