It’s issue-specific. A community ca

It’s issue-specific. A community can be more than ready to address one issue, while being at the very earliest stages of readiness in relation to another. It’s measurable. It’s measurable across multiple dimensions. Not only can you get an accurate assessment of community readiness, you can accurately measure where the community is on various elements of readiness. (We’ll discuss the dimensions of community readiness in the next part of this section.)