Purpose of Our Assessment Tool
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 Completeing the CVAT
- 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.