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The State Coalition Workgroup stresses the importance of having a well-defined mission and agreed-on goals and objectives. The core group can draft the mission, goals, and objectives for the broader coalition to debate and edit. The Workgroup members emphasize the importance of setting reasonable target goals that can be monitored. The core group should also consider drafting an action plan and proposing coalition workgroups before the first coalition meeting is held. The Fall Prevention Center of Excellence has produced an issue brief entitled “Strategic Planning for Coalitions” that provides an overview of strategic planning for fall prevention coalitions that has been tested in California.

STATE FALL PREVENTION INITIATIVES

The following examples of existing state fall prevention initiatives provide useful fodder for developing a state plan. Links to one page overviews of each of these state fall prevention initiatives can be found in each section below. To obtain contact information for the listed state fall prevention coalitions/networks, please e-mail a request to Fallsfree@ncoa.org.