Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART ... - OU Medicine

Step 4: Interpret and use the community ecological map to improve your relationships.
There are a number of issues you might address depending on your goals. Consider, for
example:
1) The potential benefits and costs of increasing the frequency of interaction with
organizations with which you have little interaction
2) The pros and cons of strengthening weak, positive relationships including what it
would take and how your organization would benefit
3) Ways to reduce stress in problematic relationships including whether a different
frequency of interaction would help or hinder the relationship
4) What you can learn from your strong, positive relationships to improve other
relationships
5) Whether there are agencies, groups, or individuals that are missing from your
map that could help to advance your goals
6) Whether new relationships can be established to replace or offset problematic
relationships
Considerations
It is important that you make an honest assessment of stressful relationships. Explore the
nature, causes, and consequences of any benefits and costs associated with them.
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