Phase One (Months 1-3) |
Purpose, Trainings, Resources |
Tasks |
Getting Started
- Purpose
Begin the CTC Process
- Support Trainings
- CTC 101
- New Mobilizer Training
- Resources
- Tools for Community Leaders
- Investing in Your Youth
- Milestones & Benchmarks Workbook
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- Identify “catalyst(s)”
- Recruit champion(s)
- Form core group
- Identify host agency
- Secure Mobilizer
- Identify preliminary Key Leaders & stakeholders
- Have school district commit to administering the PAYS
- Define your community
- Define scope of project
- Introduce Milestones & Benchmarks document
- Work through Community Readiness Tool
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Phase Two (Months 4-6) |
Purpose, Trainings, Resources |
Tasks |
Organizing, Introducing and Involving
- Purpose
Engage & orient Key Leaders & your Community Board
- Support Trainings
- Key Leader Orientation
- Community Board Orientation
- Resources
- Tools for Community Leaders
- Investing in Your Youth
- Milestones & Benchmarks Workbook
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- Review and enhance Key Leader and stakeholder groups ensuring that all 12 community sectors are represented in both groups
- Conduct Key Leader Orientation
- Determine how Key Leaders will remain engaged in process
- Develop Key Leader communication plan
- Form Community Board
- Conduct Community Board Orientation
- Create coalition vision
- Form workgroups & develop work plans for each
- Create overall work plan for CTC initiative
- Begin exploring avenues to include youth
- Begin exploring sustainability options
- Introduce & begin working on the Milestones & Benchmarks Workbook
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Phase Three (Months 6-9) |
Purpose, Trainings, Resources |
Tasks |
Develop a Community Profile
- Purpose
Assess & identify prevention priorities and gaps in current response to those priorities
- Support Trainings
- Community Assessment Training (CAT)
- Community Resource Assessment Training (CRAT)
- Resources
- Community Resource Assessment Survey Tool
- Community Assessment Report Template
- Community Resource Assessment Report Template
- Milestones & Benchmarks Workbook
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- Conduct Community Assessment Training using the most recent PAYS data
- Prioritize target populations
- Select priority risk and protective factors
- Create Community Assessment Report
- Conduct Community Resource Assessment Training
- Conduct community resource assessment based on priority risk and protective factors
- Conduct comprehensive gaps analysis
- Create Community Resource Assessment Report
- Continue sustainability plan development
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Phase Four (Months 9-12) |
Purpose, Trainings, Resources |
Tasks |
Create a Community Action Plan
- Purpose
Create a plan to implement & evaluate tested, effective programs
- Support Trainings
- Community Planning Training (CPT)
- Resources
- Fit & Feasibility Process and Program Selection Tool
- Milestones & Benchmarks Workbook
- Community Action Plan Template
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- Conduct Community Planning Training upon completion of a thorough community resource assessment
- Specify community-level outcomes
- Select evidence-based interventions (programs, policies, & practices) to fill resource gaps
- Generate program-level outcomes
- Create an implementation plan
- Create an evaluation plan
- Pull together all plans to create a Community Action Plan that includes data assessment, resources assessment, program selection, implementation and evaluation plan, and sustainability plan
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Phase Five |
Purpose, Trainings, Resources |
Tasks |
Implementing & Evaluating the Community Action Plan
- Purpose
Implement & evaluate the plan; revisit as new PAYS data is released; refine as needed
- Support Trainings
- Community Plan Implementation Training (CPIT)
- Resources
- Milestones & Benchmarks Workbook
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- Conduct Community Plan Implementation Training
- Convene workgroups necessary to oversee program implementation & evaluation
- Continue recruiting Key Leaders and Community Board members
- Continue sustainability plan development & implement as necessary
- Conduct annual program-level evaluation
- Conduct biannual community-level assessment
- Update Community Action Plan as appropriate
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