Step 1: Define and Engage Your Partners

• Who is already doing similar work?
• Who else needs to be at the table (e.g., youth groups, clinics, churches, schools)?
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Examples of collaborative models from CHANGE THE NARRATIVE (e.g., schools, non-profit partnerships and promos, local businesses advertising, etc.)

"With us, not for us" (Community Based Participatory Research motto)