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Here are two examples of Community Café Topics:

1. What is working and not working in your child’s health care experience?

2. What challenges do you have with your children’s school attendance? What solutions can
you suggest to address the barriers?
• Encourage participants to identify barriers and solutions, with a focus on communitybased
solutions!
• Small group work is ideal, have tables of 4-6 participants working together.
• Participants will be sharing their findings at the conclusion of the Café experience, so
provide large poster size paper with colorful markers for them to write or draw their barriers
and solutions.
• If your gathering is small (6-10) you can have one scribe and facilitate one group conversation.
It is a flexible model and can be customized to fit the needs of your group.

Step 5: Conclusion/Wrap-Up
Invite each group to share their findings. If it is one conversation, review the findings, but ask a
participant to join you to share the information.
• Create a “Gallery Walk” of all the groups work
• Ask participants about their Community Café experience
• Keep the momentum going! Plan on continuing these Conversations that Matter.

Step 6: Unpack the Community Café
Write down first impressions immediately after the Café so you don’t forget important points.
Debrief and discuss common themes that were identified during the Café. Keep the posters that
were created from the “Gallery”, you may find them very helpful as you continue to build on follow
up Cafes.

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