title: Community collaboration--a weaving.
abstract: This article describes the collaborative efforts of the Sitka Turning Point Towards Health partnership in Sitka, Alaska. Key steps to its success include defining our terms, finding consensus, maintaining an attitude of respect, engaging people--building relationships, creating work groups, sharing leadership, committing to collaborative leadership, building in sustainability, and telling our story. We have chosen to interlace a weaving metaphor to reflect our Alaskan Native American culture and the vision of our partnership.
authors.affiliation: University of Alaska, USA.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cavanaugh
authors.forename: Kaats Saa Waa Della
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Cheney
mesh_terms: D000413:Alaska; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003625:Data Collection; D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D010865:Pilot Projects; D016730:Program Development; D011635:Public Health Administration; D013219:State Government