This unit provides an opportunity for teams to compare their vision with the mission, goals, and/or work plan in their grant application. It also helps them look at developing a more systematic approach to planning and apply the planning model adapted from Green and Kreuter to their partnership and community.
Unit 1E focuses on applying the concepts discussed in the previous unit to each partnership. It also allows each team to compare the vision developed in Unit 2B with the steps outlined in the planning model. The exploration of the vision and a system for planning provides the ground work for the rest of the Institute.
Green, L.W., and M.W. Kreuter. (1991). Health promotion today and a framework for community planning. In Health promotion planning: An educational and environmental approach. 2nd ed. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1-33.
A. Tell participants that after the introduction each team will divide into 5 groups of 2-3 members. Each group will work with one of the lists of questions. Briefly review the questions listed below (T-1 to T-5):
Questions for needs assessment and determining problems (T-1: Questions for Needs Assessment and Determining Problems).
What is the benefit in asking members of the community to give their perception and concerns about quality of life, health problems, and AOD problems in your community (HO-1: Questions for Needs Assessment and Determining Problems)?
What are some ideas of ways to ask community members?
What kinds of professional data or studies might be helpful for understanding the problems in your community?
What organizations or individuals within your community might be good sources of professional data on health problems?
How could your partnership use both types of information to decide how you might evaluate the impact of your partnership's work within your community?
Questions for analyzing problems and setting goals (T-2: Questions for Analyzing Problems and Setting Goals)
What kinds of individual behaviors in your community contribute to AOD problems (HO-2: Questions for Analyzing Problems and Setting Goals)?
What are some factors outside individuals' control in your community that contribute to AOD problems (i.e., environmental factors)?
What goals might be identified for your partnership to change individual behaviors and environmental factors identified as problem areas in your community?
How could you measure how the partnership's work affects these goals?
Questions for analyzing behaviors and environments to develop objectives (T-3: Questions for Analyzing Behaviors and Environments to Develop Objectives)
What factors motivate individuals to engage in healthy or unhealthy behaviors related to AOD use in your community (HO-3: Questions for Analyzing Behaviors and Environments to Develop Objectives)?
What conditions in your community encourage healthy behaviors? What conditions act as barriers?
What negative or positive consequences support healthy and unhealthy AOD behaviors in your community?
Which of the factors identified in the first 3 questions do you consider high priority for the work of your partnership? What objectives might you identify to guide your work?
How could you measure how the partnership's work affects these objectives?
Questions for assessing the planning environments of the partnership (T-4: Questions for Assessing the Planning Environments of the Partnership)
What resources are available from your partner organizations to help develop an effective planning process for your community (HO-4: Questions for Assessing the Planning Environments of the Partnership)?
What financial, technical assistance, and training resources are available as a result of your grant that will allow you to effectively carry out your planning efforts?
What formal policies and laws in your community will help or hinder your partnership's work?
What informal norms in your community about AOD use will help or hinder your partnership's work?
How will you assess the process of examining your internal and external environments to determine how to improve the work of your partnership?
Questions for developing and implementing strategies (T-5: Questions for Developing and Implementing Strategies)
How will you determine which strategies for prevention planning will work best in your community (HO-5: Questions for Developing and Implementing Strategies)?
How will you determine which strategies for prevention programming will work best in your community?
How will you use your evaluators and your evaluation process to enhance your planning efforts?
How will you expand your planning efforts to include more of the community?
B. Tell participants that each small group will have 20 minutes to answer as many questions as possible. Small groups may leave the room, but need to be back in on time.
C. Ask members to keep in mind their team vision statement when completing the exercise.
A. After 20 minutes are up, ask teams to reassemble at each table.
B. Each team facilitator will help his or her team process the answers to the question. The small groups will not report out, but the whole team will discuss how what members learned relates to the vision they developed this morning in comparison with the mission, goals, and objectives identified in its grant.
Directions (T-6: A Community Prevention Planning Process)
A. Using T-6, help participants understand that they have just walked through an abbreviated version of the planning model adapted from Green and Kreuter (HO-6: A Community Prevention Planning Process).
B. Encourage participants to link up with small groups from other teams that had the same question they worked with to share information.
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