1. National Programs 2013-2015 Program Planning and Development Committee
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated
Program Planning and Development Committee
National Programs
During the 2014 Regional Conference cycle, members of the National Program and Planning Development committee presented the national initiatives for this biennium.
Dr. Paulette C. Walker, National President
Dr. Martha S. Lue Stewart, Chair

2. Centennial Program Planning and Development Gift Grants
Risk Management
Financial Fortitude
DST Women-owned Business Plan Competition and
The Debt Reduction Challenge
International Awareness & Involvement Sustainability Plan
Mental Health Across the Lifespan Initiative with NIH
Delta SIZED Challenge Sponsored by Aetna
Information was shared on four of the Five-Point Programmatic Thrust. The presentations focused on the following: Centennial Program Planning and Development Gift, Risk Management, Financial Fortitude, the DST Women-owned Business Plan Competition and the Debt Reduction Challenge. information regarding the International Awareness and Involvement Sustainability Plan, the Mental Health Across the Lifespan Initiative with the National Institute of Health and the Delta SIZED Challenge sponsored by Aetna Insurance were shared.
A bit of a backdrop: In 2013, through DREF, a Centennial Program Planning and Development Gift was established. We are delighted to inform you that Program grants and Community empowerment grants are now available. Starting September 1st, applications can be submitted to DREF. Regions and chapters can apply for a program grant to develop or enhance programs in the areas of Education, Civic Engagement, Financial Literacy, Health and Wellness, and International Awareness. Only one application per year will be considered. Sorors you have invested in the Sorority’s collective programming and service. It is now time to begin our second century of service!

3. Risk Management
In Delta Sigma Theta, Risk Management stops the “Ball of Confusion.” Everyone needs to understand the rationale for Risk Management in our Illustrious Sisterhood. A stand-alone Risk Management Workshop was also presented at each of the Regional Conferences.

4. Risk Management Training Goals
To enhance the mission of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., as it is related to youth initiatives
To ensure a consistent understanding and implementation of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority’s Risk Management policies and procedures.
To minimize the risk of implementing youth programs due to ill-prepared mentors and supervisors
In the Biennium we will enhance Risk Management Training The goals of Delta’s Risk Management Training are to:
1. enhance the mission of the Sorority’s youth initiatives;
2. ensure consistent understanding and implementation of our Risk Management policies and procedures; and to
3. minimize the risk of implementing youth programs due to ill-prepared mentors and supervisors.

5. Risk Management Training Methods
Tier One Training
Regional Directors
State Coordinators
Regional PP & D Chairs
Regional Risk Management Coordinators
Chapter Presidents
Risk Management DID
Selected Trainers through Leadership Academy Process
The Leadership Academy, in collaboration with Legal Counsel and PP&D, will launch a DID training program. The Risk Management DID will be presented to both the leadership and the membership. Initially, Regional Directors, State Coordinators, Regional PP & D Chairs, Regional Risk Management Coordinators, and Chapter Presidents will be trained. Next, the Sorority’s membership will receive training through a structured DID presented by sorors who are certified as Risk Management trainers through the National Leadership Academy.
4. We will ALL work together to eliminate all confusion related to Risk Management.

6. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated
Program Planning and Development Committee
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Financial Fortitude remains the focus for Economic Development Programming.

7. *2013-2015 Biennium Financial Fortitude Priorities
Financial Fortitude Using The Tools
Financial Fortitude: Is a financial education initiative developed under the
Economic Development component of the Sorority's National Five Point
Programmatic Thrust.
The 10 components of the program include:
1. Goal Setting
2. Financial Planning
3. Budgeting
4. Debt Management*
5. Savings & Investments*
6. Retirement Planning
7. Homeownership
8. Insurance
9. Estate planning
10.Entrepreneurship*
* Biennium Financial Fortitude Priorities
The foci for the biennium are debt reduction, increasing savings and entrepreneurship; additionally we will introduce two new tools to help chapters implement effective programs.

8. Eligibility Requirements
Financial Fortitude Using The Tools Entrepreneurship
DST Business Plan Competition
(7) Winners $2, Each
Eligibility Requirements
Female
18 Years or Older
Legal Resident or U.S. Citizen
Interested in opening a for-profit start-up business in your service area, or
Owner of an existing for-profit located in your service area with revenues under $250,000
The first tool is the DST Women-owned Business Plan Competition. This tool will provide learning opportunities to rising entrepreneurs that are looking to make their mark in the community. To launch the DST Business Plan Competition, Chapters are encouraged to identify start-up businesses that will work with the Small Business Administration and/or the SCORE Association to develop business plans. Chapters will also sponsor workshops and promote the SBA’s Business Plan Webinars. In collaboration with a Selection Committee, the National PP&D Committee will select a Regional Winner.
There will be one winner per region. Regional winners will receive a cash prize of $2, A grand prize winner will be selected among the regional winners and they will be awarded an additional $2,500.00
The DST Business Plan Competition will start on September 1, 2014 and the winner will be announced at the 52nd National Convention in Houston, Texas.
To be eligible for the DST Business Plan Competition, participants must be female 18 years or older, a legal resident or US citizen; interested in opening a for-profit start-up business in your service area; or, an owner of an existing for-profit business located in your service area with revenues under $250,000.   

9. Financial Fortitude Using The Tools Reduce Debt and Increase Savings
* Biennium Financial Fortitude Priorities
Debt Management and Savings & Investments
Goal: Improving the economic well-being of our members and the communities we serve.
Who: Sorors and communities we serve.
What: Debt Reduction Challenge
Why: To reduce personal debt, increase savings and increase credit scores.
How: Provide easy access to financial resources that help individuals make better financial
decisions.
The second tool is the Debt Reduction Challenge designed to improve the economic well-being of our members and the communities we serve. The Debt Reduction Challenge is designed to help individuals reduce personal debt, increase savings and credit scores. Details regarding the Debt Reduction Challenge are still being finalized.

10. INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS AND INVOLVEMENT
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated
Program Planning and Development Committee
INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS AND INVOLVEMENT
International Awareness & Involvement. As the second century of our glorious sisterhood continues to unfold, Program Planning & Development is poised to serve as a resource to chapters as you begin to implement the International Awareness & Involvement Sustainability Plan. We urge the establishment of an IAI committee in every chapter. PP&D can assist your committee with ideas and suggested activities focused on international matters of interest, or connect them with other chapters that have exemplary programs.
Delta is very blessed to have sorors in every region who have extensive knowledge about all of our current international projects. We have invited some of these 100+ sorors to become IAI Advocates. They too, will be available to assist your chapter in supporting current projects or developing ideas for others. More details about this to follow.

11. Current International Projects
▲Adelaide Tambo School for the Physically Challenged
▲ Delta House at Vashti Village in Swaziland
▲ Delta School in Haiti
(Cynthia M.A. Butler McIntyre Campus)
▲ Mary Help of the Sick Mission Hospital
(formally Thika Hospital)
▲Water Wells in Machakos, Kenya
(Muindi Mbingu High School)
▲TREE (Training Resources for Early Education)
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
International Awareness & Involvement
Since oversight, monitoring, evaluation and funding are primary objectives of the Sustainability Plan, routine data gathering are essential. As required by the IAI Sustainability Plan, designated Delta leaders and interested sorors must visit our projects in the Motherland and Haiti routinely to ensure that the Delta brand is affirmed and protected in the manner all Deltas expect.

12. Proposed Mission Trip Schedule South Africa & Swaziland – Fall 2015
Haiti - Spring 2015
Next year may present the opportunity for two IAI mission trips:
- Haiti – Spring 2015
- South Africa and Swaziland - Fall Specific dates are still being confirmed
South Africa & Swaziland – Fall 2015

13. Knowing how many sorors desire to participate in future IAI monitoring and oversight experiences is essential to adequate planning. Are you available and interested? If so, us ASAP at: Tell us your name, chapter, region and the mission destination of your interest.
Finally, each chapter should continue to maintain its ongoing national IAI chapter initiatives; in particular World AIDS Day, observed annually on Dec.1. Support for children or schools your chapter may have adopted in the past should continue.
Please welcome Soror _____________________________ .

14. PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated
Program Planning and Development Committee
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
Physical & Mental Health Initiatives. The Journey to Wellness Continues. We are happy to announce that Delta along with The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development with the National Institute of Mental Health are working on a memorandum of understanding for Mental Health across the Lifespan Initiative. This collaborative effort will involve an educational outreach initiative to raise awareness about certain mental health conditions affecting women and their families, including: bullying, postpartum depression, and successful aging later in life. Stay tuned for more information.

15. Journey to Wellness Continues…
To encourage behavioral lifestyle changes for the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of the African American families.
Catching, Coping
&
Conquering
My Cry In the Dark
Healthy Lifestyles
Lose to Win was a “call to action” for physical activity developed during the Rice administration. It became the Journey to Wellness initiative during the McIntyre administration expanded with three focus areas: Catching, Coping and Conquering; My Cry in the Dark; and Healthy Lifestyles, these initiatives will continue under Soror Walker’s administration. We are happy to introduce the collaboration with Aetna Insurance through the Delta Research & Educational Foundation (DREF) who will sponsor the Delta SIZED Challenge, a new competitive physical activity challenge. The goal is to encourage members of the sorority to continue taking physical steps on their Journey to Wellness. Chapter members are challenged to walk, run, cycle, spin or just jog along your favorite trail and report miles achieved.

16. Centennial Program Planning and Development Gift Grants
Risk Management
Financial Fortitude
DST Women-owned Business Plan Competition and
The Debt Reduction Challenge
International Awareness & Involvement Sustainability Plan
Mental Health Across the Lifespan Initiative with NIH
Delta SIZED Challenge Sponsored by Aetna
The Program Planning and Development Committee would like to thank each chapter president for completing the Program Planning and Development Benchmark Survey

17. National Program Planning & Development Committee
Martha S. Lue Stewart, Ph.D., Chair
Committee Members
Patricia A. Ackerman, Ph.D.
Rolanda Evelyn Davis, R.Ph.
Mary Estes Henry
Sheila Ginyard Ogilvie
Pamela Hart Hemphill
Brandi P. Jones
Lori Jones Gibbs
Joyce Jones Guinyard, DC
Sybil Knight-Burney, Ed.D.
Sandra M. Lucado
Stacey Nicole Mabray, Ed.D.
Barbara Moseley-Davis
Pamela Moore Rogers
Patricia M. Reed-Cunningham
Karen Eley Sanders, Ed.D.
Marya L. Shegog, Ph.D.
Paula V. Snowden, Ed.D.
Jennifer C. Stimpson
Jackie E. Williams, Ph.D.
Danita L. Wimbush
We also want to thank the Regional Directors and Regional Coordinators of Program Planning and Development for their support. And last but not least, sorors thank you for your time and attention. Please attend the Risk Management Training workshop entitled Risk Management 101: Stop the Ball of Confusion on _________________ at ______ in room __________________________. At the end of the conference cycle, this powerpoint presentation will be posted in the PP&D area on the national website in its entirety.
Headquarters Staff
Carolyn McCrea, Program Coordinator
Liz Newsome, Program Specialist

18. National Programs 2013-2015 Program Planning and Development Committee
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated
Program Planning and Development Committee
National Programs
Dr. Paulette C. Walker, National President
Dr. Martha S. Lue Stewart, Chair