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Community Planning Training – Module 1

Community Planning Training

Module 1

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Module 1: Overview

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Implementing the Communities That Care System

Getting Started

Organizing, Introducing,

Involving

Developing a Community Profile

Creating a Community Action

Plan

Implementing and Evaluating the

Community Action Plan

Communities That Care System

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Community Planning Training Goal

The goal of the Community Planning Training is to provide Community Board members with the skills to develop a focused Community Action Plan.

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Objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. Explain how the Community Planning Training fits into the Communities That Care system.

2. Identify the steps for completing a Community Action Plan.

3. Identify resources needed to complete the plan.

4. Identify the next steps for the Community Board.

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Phase Four: Creating a Community Action PlanCommunity Planning Training Day One: Strategic Planning

• Module 1: Overview

• Milestone: The Community Board has the capacity to create a focused Community

Action Plan

• Module 2: Developing Community-level Outcomes

• Milestone: Specify the desired outcomes of the plan, based on the community

assessment data

• Module 3: Selecting and Investigating Programs, Policies and Practices

• Milestone: Select tested, effective programs, policies and practices to address priority

risk and protective factors and fill gaps

• Module 4: Developing Participant and Implementation Outcomes

• Milestone: Develop implementation plans for each program, policy or practice selected

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Phase Four: Creating a Community Action PlanCommunity Planning Training Day Two: Strategic Planning

• Module 5: Understanding Program-level Evaluation

• Milestone: Develop an evaluation plan.

• Module 6: Identifying Systems-change Strategies

• Milestone: Develop implementation plans for each program, policy or practice

selected.

• Module 7: Drafting a Community Action Plan

• Milestone: Develop a written Community Action Plan.

• Module 8: Next Steps

• Milestone: The community is ready to move to Phase Five: Implementing and

Evaluating the Community Action Plan.

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Agenda: Day One

• Welcome and Introductions

• Module 1: Overview

• Module 2: Developing Community-level Outcomes

• LUNCH

• Module 3: Selecting and Investigating Programs, Policies and Practices

• Module 4: Developing Participant and Implementation Outcomes

• Wrap-up and Evaluations

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Ground Rules

• Everyone gets a chance to speak.

• Everyone listens when someone has the floor. (No side conversations.)

• One person talks at a time and doesn’t get interrupted.

• Respect others’ perspectives and ideas. (No put-downs.)

• Start and end on time.

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Community Update

• Description of how Key Leaders, youth and community members have been involved to date

• Community risk and resources assessments: processes and results

• Key accomplishments

• Key challenges/issues in the planning process

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The Research Foundation

• Public health approach

• Demonstrated predictors:

• Risk factors

• Protective factors organized by the Social Development Strategy (SDS)

• Tested, effective prevention strategies

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Building Protection: The Social Development Strategy

The goal…

Healthy Behaviors for all children and youth

Start with…

Healthy Beliefs & Clear Standards…in families, schools, communities and peer groups

Build…

BondingAttachment and Commitment

…to families, schools, communities and peer groups

By providing…

OpportunitiesBy providing…

Skills By providing…

Recognition

And by nurturing…

Individual Characteristics

…in families, schools, communities and peer groups

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Risk Factors:

• Exist in all areas of influence.

• Predict multiple problem behaviors.

• Exist throughout development.

• Have consistent effects across races, cultures and socioeconomic status.

• Can be buffered by protective factors.

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Community Risk Factors: Adolescent Problem Behaviors

Risk FactorSubstance

AbuseDelinquency Teen Pregnancy School Drop-Out Violence

Availability of drugs Availability of firearms

Community laws and norms favorable toward drug use,

firearms and crime

Media portrayals of violence Transitions and mobility

Low neighborhood attachment and community disorganization

Extreme economic deprivation

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Family Risk Factors: Adolescent Problem Behaviors

Risk FactorSubstance

AbuseDelinquency Teen Pregnancy School Drop-

OutViolence

Family history of the problem behavior

Family management problems

Family conflict

Favorable parental attitudes and involvement in the

problem behavior

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School Risk Factors: Adolescent Problem Behaviors

Risk Factor

Substance Abuse

Delinquency Teen Pregnancy School Drop-Out

Violence

Academic failure beginning in late elementary school

Lack of commitment to school

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Peer and Individual Risk Factors:Adolescent Problem Behaviors

Risk FactorSubstance

AbuseDelinquency Teen Pregnancy School Drop-Out Violence

Early and persistent antisocial behavior

Rebelliousness Friends who engage

in the problem behavior Gang involvement

Favorable attitudes toward the problem behavior

Early initiation of the problem behavior Constitutional factors

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Tested, Effective Prevention Strategies Are:

Programs, policies or practices that have demonstrated effectiveness in:

• Reducing specific risk factors and enhancing protective factors.

• Reducing problem behaviors.

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Prevention Strategies: A Research Guide to What Works

• Strategies and programs, policies or practices shown to effectively address risk and protective factors

• Family focus

• School focus

• Community-based youth programs

• Community focus

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Community Planning Process

Community Profile

Community Priorities

Community Strengths

Resources and Gaps

Strategic Planning

• Create community-level outcomes.

• Investigate potential programs, policies and practices.

Program Planning

• Select programs, policies and practices.

• Create program-level outcomes.

• Plan to evaluate.

• Create a written Community Action Plan.

Phase Five:

Implementing and Evaluating the Community Action

Plan

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Successful Community Action Plans:

• 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.

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Outcome-focused PlanningP

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g Vision for Healthy Youth

Behavior Outcomes• Decrease in

problem behaviors

Risk- and Protective-factor Outcomes• Increase in

protective factors• Decrease in risk

factors

Process and Participants Outcomes• Changes in

participant knowledge, attitudes, skills or behavior

• Program implementation fidelity

Community–level OutcomesProgram–level Outcomes

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Implementation and EvaluationIm

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Evalu

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Vision for Healthy Youth

Behavior Outcomes• Decrease in

problem behaviors

(3 to 10 years)

Risk- and Protective-factor Outcomes• Increase in

protective factors• Decrease in risk

factors

(1 to 4 years)

Participant and Implementation Outcomes• Changes in participant

knowledge, attitudes, skills or behavior

• Program implementation fidelity

(6 months to 2 years)

Community–level OutcomesProgram–level Outcomes

(10 to 15 years)

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Advantages of Outcome-focused Planning

• Gives clear direction toward achieving community vision

• Provides built-in evaluation measures and accountability

• Required by many grant-makers

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The Community Action Plan May Include:

• 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.

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Phase Four: Creating a Community Action PlanCommunity Planning Training Day One: Strategic Planning, continued

• Module 1: Overview

• Milestone: The Community Board has the capacity to create a focused Community Action Plan

• Module 2: Developing Community-level Outcomes

• Milestone: Specify the desired outcomes of the plan, based on the community assessment data

• Module 3: Selecting and Investigating Programs, Policies and Practices

• Milestone: Select tested, effective programs, policies and practices to address priority risk and

protective factors and fill gaps

• Module 4: Developing Participant and Implementation Outcomes

• Milestones: Develop implementation plans for each program, policy or practice selected

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