The Coalition Vitality Assessment Tool (CVAT) is an organizational assessment tool that can be used annually to identify the strengths and limitation of a community prevention coalition across four important domains:

1) Coalition composition

2) Leadership and staffing

3) Plan and implementation

4) Sustainability

Benefits of completing the CVAT include:

• Deliberate review and reflection among and between leaders and staff members.

• Identification of how well the community embraces the coalition as a primary strategy for change.

• Narrow down three to five areas to improve the coalition over the next 12 months.

• Identify of how the strengths and limitations of the coalition vitality affect implementation progress and sustainability.

• Establish a strategy to use momentum from plan implementation to strengthen the overall coalition.