1. 4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Module 4 Objectives
After completing this module, you should be able to:
List the steps in the program development process
Develop program goals and objectives
Identify performance measurement strategies
Describe the connection between program goals and objectives, and evaluation strategies
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2. 4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Successful Interventions
Provide those factors that contribute to success for girls
Minimize risk factors for girls and build on protective factors
Identify what a specific girl needs across the continuum of care
Include program elements that have been proven to work
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3. 4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Valentine’s Principles
(from A Conversation about Girls)
Safety
Time to talk
Relationships of trust and interdependence
Programs that tap cultural strengths
Mentors who share experiences that resonate with girls’ lives
Education about women’s health
Opportunities to create positive change
A voice in program design
Comprehensive and sustained programming
Curricula that reflect and value the experience and contributions of women
Valentine Foundation, 1990
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4. 4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Identifying What a Girl Needs
Initial screening to identify the strengths and needs of the girl and her family across the continuum of care (prevention, early intervention, treatment/supervision, follow-up)
Physical health
Mental health
Education
Family
Friends/social contacts
Offense history
Identify risk factors and strengths
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5. 4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
The Program Development Process
(not necessarily a linear or sequential process)
Conduct organizational assessment
Develop mission and vision statements
Develop program goals and objectives
Design and organize the program
Manage the program
Develop a performance measurement strategy
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6. 4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Organizational Assessment
Key Questions
What are your capabilities and limitations?
What resources and expertise are available for program planning, staff training, and performance measurement?
How can existing resources be redirected ?
How much can your organization afford to spend on the program?
Who are the partners, both professional and community-based, who will need to collaborate to implement gender-responsive programs? How will you get them involved?
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7. 4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives
Overview
Guide a program’s development
Describe what you are trying to do
Serve as the foundation of the program
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Vision and Mission
Vision – A shared picture of the future the organization seeks to create.
Mission – Describes the reason the organization exists.
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Goals and Objectives
Goals – Broad statements, long-term
Objectives – Well-defined, specific, measurable
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10. How to Develop Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives
4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
How to Develop Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives
Develop a vision and a mission statement that encompasses gender-responsive values
Define your gender-responsive program goals
Define the objectives that will lead to goal accomplishment
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11. Design and Organize the Program
4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Design and Organize the Program
Given your mission, vision, goals, and objectives, what program elements are needed?
Given the results of your organizational assessment, how should the program be organized?
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Manage the Program
Leadership and supervision
Policies and protocols
Staff hiring, training, retention
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13. Performance Measurement
4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Performance Measurement
The assessment of a program’s progress toward its stated goals. Performance measurement focuses on outcomes.
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14. Performance Measurement vs. Evaluation
4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Performance Measurement vs. Evaluation
Performance measurement
Evaluation
Outcomes (every program)
Process (grants)
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15. Performance Indicator
4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Performance Indicator
A particular value used to measure program output or outcomes
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16. Establishing Performance Measures
4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Establishing Performance Measures
Define interim indicators of progress as well as long-range outcomes.
Be sure that your outcome measures address the domains you intend to affect.
Use client assessment tools/results as part of your performance measurement system, and be sure that you are assessing those aspects of your clients that you intend to affect positively.
If you do not implement your program or policy initiative as intended, you may get false negatives.
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Logic Models
Help you develop outcome measures
Illustrate connections from inputs through activities, outputs, and outcomes
Tools for refining your thinking about each part of the program
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18. Activity: “So That” Chain
4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Activity: “So That” Chain
Select a program or policy initiative you want to implement or have implemented.
Develop a “so that” chain. There may be a variety of “so that” paths, especially when you are thinking of long-range outcomes.
Propose some ways to measure outcomes or interim indicators of progress for each “so that.” Think about positive outcomes, not just the absence of negative ones like recidivism and substance abuse.
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19. Factors for Successful Implementation
4. Designing and Implementing Successful GRP
Factors for Successful Implementation
Clearly stated goals
Strong leadership and management
Clearly documented policy and protocols
Sound hiring and staff development practices
Effective performance measurement plan
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Personal Action Plan
Complete the Module 4 section of your Personal Action Plan.
Rate your organization’s need for improvement in relation to each of the factors for successful implementation.
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Module 4 Summary
After completing this module, you should now be able to:
List the steps in the program development process
Develop program goals and objectives
Identify performance measurement strategies
Describe the connection between program goals and objectives and evaluation strategies
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