Sustaining a coalition and its work to create a healthy community requires engaging the support of community champions. This session will focus on how to be strategic and thoughtful about how to communicate the work of the coalition in a way that connects with key community stakeholders. Getting the right message to the right stakeholders will help sustaining the work.

Objectives:

1. Review what sustainability planning aims to do.
2. Understanding the correlation between communication and sustainability.
3. Identify how to develop a list of key accomplishments related to coalition work, strategy implementation and utilization of the Strategic Prevention Framework.
4. Discuss how to identify the target audience(s) and the key messages to communicate. Identify how and when the messages will be shared.