Assessment Planning and Development Checklist
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Secure buy-in and commitment to develop plan from people in authority within your organization and among community stakeholders. | ||||
Form preparation team to identify goals and first steps. | ||||
Create structure for planning process. | ||||
Identify potential barriers and facilitators to success. | ||||
Identify orientation and training needs of team members. | ||||
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Identify staff, financial and technical resources needed to develop assessment plan. | ||||
Develop budget to plan, market, support implementation and evaluation of plan. | ||||
Outline steps to integrate the plan into organization's planning, budgeting and programming processes. | ||||
Identify existing resources (e.g. grants) that could be used to support proposed tasks. | ||||
Identify potential external funding sources and organizations that can offer printing supplies, and other donated services. | ||||
Secure identified resources, and develop alternative resources, if necessary. | ||||
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Define Community | ||||
Identify key individuals and organizations | ||||
Design strategy for engaging partners | ||||
Define useful roles for partners | ||||
Develop accountability and evaluation plans | ||||
Develop communication strategies | ||||
Reassess and evaluate partners involvement and satisfaction in plan development | ||||
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Collect and analyze your county data | ||||
Collect and analyze your community data | ||||
Put it together and interpret your data | ||||
Summarize and Present your data | ||||
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Set criteria for establishing priority or focus area | ||||
Establish a process for final determination of final priority or focus area | ||||
Decide health priority/focus area | ||||
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Collect initial data on indicator based on priority questions | ||||
Hypothesize causes and contributing factors for why your data looks like it does | ||||
Collect data to prove or disprove the hypothesis | ||||
Identify a small number of high-impact causes to address in the plan | ||||
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Review state and national goals related to priority | ||||
Identify annual objectives for meeting these goals | ||||
Identify evidence needed for attainment of objective | ||||
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Collect successful strategies data from other communities | ||||
Review research-based strategies related to your priority area | ||||
Choose strategies to implement | ||||
Identify milestones for monitoring progress | ||||
Identify activities that will support the strategy | ||||
Identify people responsible for implementing the tasks | ||||
Identify staff development needs | ||||
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Locate guidance document (or proposal/application), and organize requested information | ||||
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Reassess roles and responsibilities of CHA team | ||||
Assess progress | ||||
Revise plan | ||||
Make changes | ||||
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-Adapted from Healthy People 2010 Toolkit