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

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- 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. Community Planning Training 1-21

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- 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. Community Planning Training 1-25

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 6-8 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

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Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 5-5 Evaluation helps you: monitor implementation fidelity monitor progress toward outcomes identify problems with program design or selection demonstrate achievements determine cost-effectiveness.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 5-7 Community Board members Key Leaders Program implementers and site administrators Media Local interest groups Other community members Sources of funding

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Increase in protective factors Decrease in risk factors Decrease in problem behaviors Changes in participant knowledge, attitudes, skills or behavior Program implementation fidelity Community Planning Training 4-5

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

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Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training Change in what 2.As measured by 3.The baseline or starting point for comparison 4.By how much, by when

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training Behavior outcome to change 2.Indicator used to measure the outcome 3.Baseline data 4.How much change, by when

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training To decrease alcohol and other drug use… 2.…as measured by 8th-grade students reporting alcohol use within the last 30 days on the Communities That Care Youth Survey… 3.…from the current baseline of 22% of 8th graders… 4.…to 15% of 8th graders by 2006.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training Priority risk-factor outcome to change 2.Indicator used to measure the outcome 3.Baseline data 4.How much change, by when

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training To decrease family management problems… 2.…as measured by 8th-grade students reporting poor family discipline on the Communities That Care Youth Survey… 3.…from the current baseline risk-factor scale score of 55… 4.…to below the normative database score of 50 by 2006.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 4-6 Participant outcomes measure the changes a program produces. Participant outcomes are changes in: o Knowledge o Attitudes o Skills o Behavior.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 4-8 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.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 4-9 Significantly increase parents’ knowledge of appropriate infant health-care practices as 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.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 4-10 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.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Measure the program’s impact on participant knowledge, skills, attitudes or behavior. Monitor progress toward the community’s vision. Community Planning Training 5-11

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- To significantly increase parents’ knowledge of appropriate infant health-care practices and care-taking and interaction skills, as measured by pre- and post-tests. Community Planning Training 5-12

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Observation Interviews Questionnaires Records Community Planning Training 5-13

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 4-6 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.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 5-8 Monitor implementation fidelity. Identify and correct implementation problems before they result in program failure.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 4-13 Trained professionals will provide, weekly over a 24-month period, two hours of home-based parent education, based on the 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.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- 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. Community Planning Training 4-14

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 5-9 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.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 5-10 Records Activity logs Observation Questionnaires

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 2-23 Identify targets for prevention-planning efforts. Evaluate the impact of prevention efforts over time. Engage Key Leaders and community members in supporting prevention.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 2-24 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.

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Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 7-6 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.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training Identify target audiences and uses. 2.Determine content and format. 3.Determine who will write the plan. 4.Submit draft for Key Leader approval. 5.Distribute to stakeholders.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 7-8 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

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 7-12 Cover page Executive summary Introduction Body Conclusions and recommendations Appendices

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 7-22 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.

Community Plan Implementation Training 1- Community Planning Training 8-6 Secure funding. Implement tested, effective programs with fidelity. Complete evaluations. Plan for Community Board maintenance. Maintain public relations efforts.