Sustainable Community Collaboration Building Professional Development for Community Members and Stakeholders to Determine Sustainable Change and Improved Quality-of-Life.

We are aware that every community must engage in addressing problems and seek sustainable solutions. We do not focus on the day-to-day efforts taken by many, resulting in the completion of the tasks at hand. Our focus is on persistent issues, those problems of a critical nature, where the quality-of-life is impacted and citizens suffer from some of the outcomes. A poignant example today is the raging substance abuse problem instigating havoc across the nation.We address this dilemma by offering a hands-on and applied document to guide the development of a cohesive working group charged with the careful examination of the problem, gathering data to allow a depth of drilling down into knowledge needed to make decisions, to the construction of a sustainable plan, and thoroughly evaluated to determine outcome effectiveness.