This unit is intended to provide the partnership teams with a common framework
for thinking about community prevention planning and evaluation. The proposed
planning process merges several elements important to the work of partnerships
that are well known but not usually merged: community prevention of ATODA;
phases of program planning and evaluation; active and wide community participation
in planning, implementation, and evaluation; and strategic-planning processes.
Such a planning process can serve as a kind of map or guide for both the
work of the partnerships and this Institute. It is intended that partnerships
will examine their ATODA prevention efforts from time to time in terms
of how they blend these important elements together.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
Describe a prevention planning and evaluation process that shows community
participation in each phase of planning and implementing ATODA prevention
strategies.
Describe the major phases of planning and how they are related to evaluation.
Use the same planning process as a kind of road map through the many activities
of the Institute.
Linkages with Preceding and Following Sessions
This unit shifts gears from the preceding units, moving away from each
team's individual vision of its partnership's future to a common frame
of reference for planning among all the teams at the Institute. The present
unit provides a central orientation point for the rest of the units in
the Institute.
