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Strategies for Conducting Community Forums1

Lisa A. Guion2

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Strategies for Conducting Community Forums

Community forums are wonderful vehicles for obtaining input from county or area clientele groups about the needs, issues, problems, and/or future directions. If planned and implemented appropriately, community forums are wonderful program-planning tools. This article, the second of a two-part series, discusses key strategies for conducting community forums as well as ways to avoid common pitfalls that hinder the effectiveness of community forums.

Strategies for Conducting Community Forums

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Keywords: identifying needs, needs assessment, environmental scanning

Community Forum: An Effective Program Planning Tool

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Keywords: identifying needs, needs assessment, environmental scanning

Footnotes

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This document is PE071, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, UF/IFAS, Gainesville, FL 32611: First published: October 2003. Reviewed by Josephine Turner, Ph.D., CFP, professor, Family and Consumer Economics, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences; and Lamont Flowers, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Policy and Foundations, Univeristy of Florida, Gainesville. Please visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu

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

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension service.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Millie Ferrer-Chancy, Interim Dean.