Please insert into your computer the CD-ROM (Disc 1) you received from us and play the collaboration video. To read a copy of the video transcript, click on the print video icon.

This case example describes a community coalition in New Haven, Connecticut, organized to fight alcohol and other drug abuse.

After watching the video, please consider the following questions and post your answers on the Message Board:

1. In New Haven, you saw what can happen when a community comes together to take ownership of and then act on a problem. What steps did the New Haven community take to apply collaboration as an effective strategy?
   
   
2. Do you think this approach might work in your own community? Why, or why not?
   
   
3. Can you describe an important issue in your community and a way that one of the collaboration strategies could be (or has been) used to address it? (Please specify the type of strategy used, i.e., coalition building, interagency, or intra-agency.)

After you have answered the questions, please review and respond to the comments made by your fellow participants. Do you agree with their responses? Disagree? Need clarification? Post your feedback to the Message Board. Then come back and visit regularly—others may have posed questions to you!

You have completed your work for today.
Tomorrow, please proceed to Module 6: Education.