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Community Forum: An Effective Program Planning Tool1

Lisa A. Guion2

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Community Forum: An Effective Program Planning Tool

Community forums are wonderful vehicles for obtaining input from county or area clientele groups about the needs, issues, problems, and/or future directions. Thus, community forums are wonderful program-planning tools. This article, the first of a two-part series, discusses the value of, and two methods for, conducting community forums.

Community Forum: An Effective Program Planning Tool

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Keywords: identifying needs, needs assessment, environmental scanning

Strategies for Conducting Community Forums

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Keywords: identifying needs, needs assessment, environmental scanning

Footnotes

1. This document is PE070, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Services, Univeristy of Florida, UF/IFAS, Gainesville, 32611: First published: October 2003. Reviewed by Elizabeth Bolton, Ph.D., Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences; and Lamont Flowers, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Policy and Foundations, University of Florida, Gainesville. Please visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu

2. Lisa A. Guion, Ed.D., assistant professor, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.

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