Community Planning Training

1-1 Community Planning Training

Select programs, policies and practices. • Create program-level outcomes. • Plan to evaluate. • Create a written Community Action Plan. • Create community-level outcomes. • Investigate potential programs, policies and practices. 1-20 Community Planning Training

Build on the results of the community assessment • Address priority risk factors • Build on community strengths and resources • Address resource gaps, issues and barriers • Achieve community-level outcomes • Use research on effective prevention strategies to guide selection and implementation of programs, policies and practices • Engage the community and Key Leaders in planning and evaluation. 1-21 Community Planning Training

Incorporating tested, effective strategies into existing services • Expanding existing tested, effective programs, policies and practices • Implementing new tested, effective prevention programs, policies and practices • Systems-change strategies. 1-25 Community Planning Training

Example 1: • changes in how school and city resources are used • changes in school policies • changes in how parents are recruited for training sessions Example 2: • changes in how school and city resources are used • finding new funding 6-8 Community Planning Training

Evaluation helps you: • • monitor implementation fidelity • • monitor progress toward outcomes • • identify problems with program design or selection • • demonstrate achievements • • determine cost-effectiveness. 5-5 Community Planning Training

• Community Board members • • Key Leaders • • Program implementers and site administrators • • Media • • Local interest groups • • Other community members • • Sources of funding 5-7 Community Planning Training

Decrease inproblem behaviors • Changes in participant knowledge, attitudes, skills or behavior • Program implementation fidelity • Increase in protective factors • Decrease in risk factors 4-5 Community Planning Training

Decrease in problem behaviors • Changes in participant knowledge, attitudes, skills or behavior • Program implementation fidelity • Increase in protective factors • Decrease in risk factors 1-22 Community Planning Training

Change in what As measured by The baseline or starting point for comparison By how much, by when 2-13 Community Planning Training

Behavior outcome to change • Indicator used to measure the outcome • Baseline data • How much change, by when 2-14 Community Planning Training

To decrease alcohol and other drug use… …as measured by 8th-grade students reporting alcohol use within the last 30 days on the Communities That Care Youth Survey… …from the current baseline of 22% of 8th graders… …to 15% of 8th graders by 2006. 2-15 Community Planning Training

Priority risk-factor outcome to change • Indicator used to measure the outcome • Baseline data • How much change, by when 2-17 Community Planning Training

To decrease family management problems… • …as measured by 8th-grade students reporting poor family discipline on the Communities That Care Youth Survey… • …from the current baseline risk-factor scale score of 55… • …to below the normative database score of 50 by 2006. 2-18 Community Planning Training

• Participant outcomes measure the changes a program produces. • Participant outcomes are changes in: • Knowledge • Attitudes • Skills • Behavior. 4-6 Community Planning Training

This home visitation program will provide parent education on infant development and health care, and improve parental skills related to caretaking and parent/child interaction. 4-8 Community Planning Training

Significantly increase parents’ knowledgeof appropriate infant health-care practicesas measured by pre- and post-tests. • Significantly increase parents’ caretaking and interaction skills, as measured by pre- and post-test observations of parents and infants. 4-9 Community Planning Training

Choose a program from the Strategic Planning Worksheet. • Review the program description and identify categories of changes. • Draft desired outcomes. • Present outcomes to the larger group. 4-10 Community Planning Training

Measure the program’s impact on participant knowledge, skills, attitudes or behavior. • Monitor progress toward the community’s vision. 5-11 Community Planning Training

To significantly increase parents’ knowledge of appropriate infant health-care practices and care-taking and interaction skills, as measured by pre- and post-tests. 5-12 Community Planning Training

Observation • Interviews • Questionnaires • Records 5-13 Community Planning Training

• Implementation outcomes measure the process by which a program produces desired changes. • Implementation outcomes address: • Who the program will be delivered by • When the program will be delivered (how often\long) • Where the program will be delivered • How the program will be delivered • Number of people to be affected by the program • Who your target audience will be. 4-6 Community Planning Training

Monitor implementation fidelity. • Identify and correct implementation problems before they result in program failure. 5-8 Community Planning Training

• Trained professionals will provide, weekly over a 24-month period, two hours of home-based parent education, based onthe program manual, to at least 30% of the community’s teen mothers. • • Trained professionals will provide, over a three-week period, six classroom-based parent-training sessions, using role-playing with feedback, to 60% of the community’s parents. 4-13 Community Planning Training

• Use the same program,policy or practice from the previous activity. • Use the program description to identify the components. • Draft the desired outcomes. • Present the outcomes to the larger group. 4-14 Community Planning Training

To provide two hours of weekly home-based parent education by trained professionals to at least 30% of teen mothers for a 24-month period. 5-9 Community Planning Training

Records • Activity logs • Observation • Questionnaires 5-10 Community Planning Training

Identify targets for prevention-planning efforts. • Evaluate the impact of prevention efforts over time. • Engage Key Leaders and community members in supporting prevention. 2-23 Community Planning Training

Conduct the Communities That Care Youth Survey every 2 to 3 years. Readministration of the survey can give a clear picture of changes in risk and protective factors. • Collect archival data every 2 to 3 years. 2-24 Community Planning Training

7-1 Community Planning Training 7-1 Community Planning Training

It is a comprehensive report that will: • summarize the results of the Community Assessment Report and the Resources Assessment Report • present outcomes and selected programs • describe preliminary implementation and evaluation plans. 7-6 Community Planning Training

Identify target audiences and uses. Determine content and format. Determine who will write the plan. Submit draft for Key Leader approval. Distribute to stakeholders. 7-7 Community Planning Training

To gain approval and support of Key Leaders and Community Board Members • To engage leaders and members of priority areas and populations • To raise the general public’s awareness of community strengths and challenges • To show agencies in your community where they fit in the process • To help the implementation of programs, policies and practices 7-8 Community Planning Training

Cover page • Executive summary • Introduction • Body • Conclusions and recommendations • Appendices 7-12 Community Planning Training

Determine target audience. • Determine the content and format. • Prepare the plan. • Present results to Key Leaders. • Distribute the plan to other target audiences. • Plan media relations and community events. 7-22 Community Planning Training

Secure funding. • Implement tested, effective programs with fidelity. • Complete evaluations. • Plan for Community Board maintenance. • Maintain public relations efforts. 8-6 Community Planning Training

Community Planning Training