Coalition Spotlight Conversation: Accountability

 

This month, we were joined by our special guest, Aubrey Villalobos DrPH, MEd with Rhizome, LLC for a great conversation about accountability in coalition work. We recorded the discussion in this VLOG and hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.  Highlights from our discussion include:

• We loved this quote from Aubrey: “You can’t hold anyone accountable for something they didn’t agree to in the first place.”
• Peer-to-peer accountability and what that looks like
• Delegation of responsibilities
• How to structure, up front, for greater accountability

 

Aubrey also shared a number of resources she found in preparation for the conversation:

• Community Tool Box (University of Kansas), Chapter 5, Section 6: Coalition Building II — Maintaining a Coalition. Free, practical, widely used. https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/assessment/promotion-strategies/maintain-a-coalition/main
• CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America) — Handbook for Community Anti-Drug Coalitions and the National Coalition Institute Building Membership primer. Free PDFs, coalition-specific.  https://www.cadca.org/resource/handbook-community-anti-drug-coalitions/
• Community Coalition Action Theory (CCAT) — Frances Butterfoss & Michelle Kegler. The standard academic model of how coalitions form, function, and sustain member engagement. Overview: https://www.med.upenn.edu/hbhe4/part4-ch15-community-coalition-action-theory.shtml
• Self-Determination Theory — Deci & Ryan, on autonomy, competence, and relatedness as the drivers of sustained motivation. https://selfdeterminationtheory.org/theory/
• Nine Habits of Successful Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalitions (American Cancer Society / CCC National Partnership). https://www.acs4ccc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/9-Habits-of-Successful-CCC-Coalitions-v17.pdf
• Building healthcare-community partnerships: process evaluation of a coalition approach to addressing cancer survivors’ health-related social needs, BMC Health Services Research (2025).  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-025-12883-7
• Synergies, partnership outcomes, and lessons learned: a qualitative evaluation of cancer center–coalition engagement, JNCI Cancer Spectrum (2025). https://academic.oup.com/jncics/article/9/3/pkaf038/8109646
• Cancer Coalition Basics: Membership, Communication and Engagement — Cancer Control TAP, George Washington University. https://cancercontroltap.org/news/cancer-coalition-basics-membership-communication-and-engagement/

 

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