What it means
Published by Trailhead Institute in 2025, Colorado’s CCC Framework adds a sustained collaborative community process to an assessment, strategy, and learning cycle. The published report credits Jonathan McMillan as a coauthor and describes the framework as his vision.
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- Where it shows up
- A roundtable produces recommendations but no continuing table with power to act and learn.
- A useful move
- Use CCC to connect community participation to the full cycle: understand harm, understand conditions, coordinate action, and review what changed.
- What this does not prove
- A published framework is an organizing method. Park Hill findings do not establish what CCC will produce in another setting.
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