This presentation will provide a description of an innovative model for community transformation based on Culturally Responsive Evaluation called Culturally Responsive Community Transformation (CRCT). CRCT is an innovative model for bringing residents together to identify their collective goals for neighborhood transformation and collaboratively create pathways to turn their community insight into action. It provides a framework for facilitating and supporting community-driven change that is centered on the assets of the community – its people, culture, and institutions. The main components of CRCT model are below. • Engaging in a period of listening centered on connecting with neighborhood residents, institutions, and leaders in structured group settings and interviews, through which BECOME will learn in-depth about the community’s assets and desired changes. • Co-designing a plan of action to create community-driven structural and systems changes that are aligned with the community’s wisdom and cultural strengths and that ultimately bring about the conditions that residents desire for their neighborhood. • Supporting community residents and institutions in implementing their plan of action by building community capacity and equipping them with skills, knowledge, and resources from the BECOME toolbox of services (including culturally responsive program development and evaluation, training, community organizing, facilitation, and coalition building). • Assessing the outputs (what has been completed) and the outcomes (what has changed) to understand how the overall process has impacted the community, how systems can be improved and sustained, and how the CRCT model can be further refined to better support communities in clarifying and achieving their goals.
