Listen, map, assign, and verify before rollout.
Use this page as a controlled working guide. Adapt language and activities to the population, verify local resources, assign ownership, and preserve the clinical and life-safety boundaries described throughout the model.
Partnership without role confusion
Partnership works when organizations share purpose without blurring authority, records, consent, money, or scope. Collaboration is not commingling. Each partner should know what it owns, what it contributes, what it may not promise, and how the handoff is completed.
Levels of partnership
| Level | Commitment | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Aware | Receives updates and understands the initiative. | Contact record; information distribution |
| Supportive | Promotes activities or contributes limited resources. | Written commitment; communication plan |
| Contributing | Provides staff time, space, transportation, materials, outreach, or subject-matter support. | Resource commitment; owner; schedule |
| Co-implementing | Shares planning, delivery, review, and problem-solving responsibilities. | MOU; workplan; governance participation |
| Strategic | Shares long-term outcomes, infrastructure, funding strategy, and system-change work. | Formal agreement; dashboard; annual review |
Successful collaboration standard
Partner commitment builder
Build a team that can decide, deliver, and repair
A committee can talk for years without becoming an operating team. The governance structure must connect authority, lived experience, program delivery, clinical safety, family voice, youth voice, data, and community relationships.
| Role | Core ownership | Required evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Executive Sponsor | Approves scope, resources, boundaries, and public commitments; removes barriers; receives dashboard reports. | Authority memo, budget, quarterly review |
| Program Director / Community Prevention Lead | Owns implementation, partner coordination, schedule, staffing, action plan, and completion evidence. | Weekly tracker, action plan, partner log |
| Clinical Advisor | Reviews safety, scope, referral pathways, curriculum risk, and clinical escalation without turning education into unauthorized treatment. | Clinical review notes, escalation protocol |
| Youth Lead | Adapts content by age, protects youth safety, coordinates caregivers, and confirms staff readiness. | Youth schedule, guardian workflow, safety checklist |
| Adult Lead | Coordinates adult education, peer support, referral, family engagement, and stability pathways. | Adult pathway tracker, completed handoffs |
| Peer / Lived-Experience Leader | Builds engagement, hope, practical navigation, and credible support within defined peer scope. | Peer activity log, referral follow-up |
| Data & Quality Lead | Maintains measures, attendance, survey integrity, dashboard, findings, and improvement actions. | Monthly dashboard, CQI log |
| Community Partner Liaison | Clarifies partner contribution, referral acceptance, communication, and accountability. | MOU or partner agreement, contact log |
| Facilitator | Delivers approved content, practices skills, documents participation and concerns, and escalates risk. | Session plan, attendance, facilitator reflection |
| Caregiver / Resident Advisory Voice | Tests relevance, access, dignity, and practicality; identifies blind spots before scale. | Advisory notes, change recommendations |
Standing meeting anatomy
Disagreement is not failure. Hidden authority, vague goals, broken promises, and undocumented decisions are failure points. Address the task, the process, the relationship, and the power dynamic separately.