CORE TASKS: |
ADDITIONAL CTB SUPPORTS: |
1. Engage community members and other key stakeholders in designing the intervention.
- The group regularly provides opportunities for stakeholders, including those from the target community or population, to be involved in developing, selecting, or providing feedback regarding potential and current interventions facilitated by the initiative.
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Troubleshooting Guide: We need to understand the community or situation better
Troubleshooting Guide: Not enough community participation
Chapter 1, Section 7: Working Together for Healthier Communities: A Framework for Collaboration among Community Partnerships, Support Organizations, and Funders
Chapter 7, Section 6: Involving Key Influentials in the Initiative
Chapter 7, Section 7: Involving People Most Affected by the Problem
Chapter 18, Section 2: Participatory Approaches to Planning Community Interventions
Chapter 27, Section 8: Multicultural Collaboration
Chapter 30, Section 6: Encouraging Involvement of Potential Opponents As Well As Allies
Chapter 36, Section 1: A Framework for Program Evaluation
Chapter 36, Section 3: Understanding Community Leadership, Evaluators, and Funders: What Are Their Interests? |
2. Identify the objectives to be attained by the intervention.
- The group identifies the target population (or community) and the target behaviors that are desired to be changed by an intervention when selecting or assessing the appropriateness of an intervention.
- When assessing the appropriateness of a potential intervention, the group identifies the specific factors such as (a) personal factors, (b) environmental factors, (c) risk factors, and/or (d) protective factors to be targeted or addressed by the intervention.
- The group has specific objectives or measures of success to be achieved by potential or current interventions implemented by the initiative.
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Chapter 2, Section 1: Developing a Logic Model or Theory of Change
Chapter 8, Section 3: Creating Objectives
CTB Toolkit: Developing a Framework or Model of Change
CTB Toolkit: Developing Strategic and Action Plans
Troubleshooting Guide: There is no clear direction or communication within our group.
Chapter 18, Section 3: Identifying Targets and Agents of Change: Who Can Benefit and Who Can Help
Chapter 19, Section 2: Understanding Risk and Protective Factors: Their Use in Selecting Potential Targets and Promising Strategies for Interventions
Chapter 36, Section 5: Developing an Evaluation Plan
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3. Review evidence-based interventions or “best practices” related to your problem/goal before choosing or adapting an intervention.
- The group considers effective approaches or best practices related to the issue when selecting or adapting an intervention.
- The group considers “what works” or “what doesn’t work”, especially in the target community or with the target population, when selecting, developing, or adapting an intervention.
- The group considers how the intervention needs to be developed or adapted to fit the needs of the local people, context, and resources.
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Chapter 19, Section 1: Criteria for Choosing Promising Practices and Community Interventions
Chapter 19, Section 2: Understanding Risk and Protective Factors: Their Use in Selecting Potential Targets and Promising Strategies for Interventions
Chapter 19, Section 4: Adapting Community Interventions for Different Cultures and Communities
Troubleshooting Guide: We don't know what to do to solve the problem. |
4. Identify core components, elements, and modes of delivery for the intervention.
- Identify core intervention components and modes of delivery based on the analysis of the problem/goal and available resources.
- The group has secured or allocated appropriate financial, human, and material resources necessary for implementing the potential and/or current intervention(s) supported by the initiative.
- The group has identified how and by whom the intervention components for all interventions supported by the initiative will be implemented and delivered.
- The group has and uses established timelines or schedules to guide the implementation of the intervention over time.
- The group has identified and established appropriate relationships and agreements with other collaborators and key stakeholders necessary for implementing and supporting the intervention.
- The persons or groups responsible for implementing the intervention(s) have received appropriate training and technical support.
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Chapter 8, Section 2: Develop An Action Plan
CHAPTER 10: Hiring and Training Key Staff of Community Organizations
CHAPTER 12: Providing Training and Technical Assistance
Chapter 18, Section 1: Designing Community Interventions
Chapter 18, Section 4: Using Community Sectors to Reach Target and Agents of Change
Chapter 23, Section 1: Overview of Tactics for Modifying Access, Barriers, and Opportunities
Chapter 23, Section 6: Using Outreach to Increase Access
Chapter 24, Section 3: Promoting Coordination, Cooperative Agreements, and Collaborative Agreements Among Agencies |
5. Evaluate the implementation of the intervention and its contributions towards improving outcomes related to the issue.
- The group has a structured system to track data regarding the implementation of the group’s activities and accomplishments.
- The group implements intervention(s) with fidelity, makes adjustments as needed, and assures conditions for its success.
- Organizational leaders, including the board and staff, regularly review and assess data on documented activities to assess the progress of the initiative in implementing the intervention.
- The group collects outcome data to assess the contribution of the intervention towards change and improvement in behaviors and longer-term outcomes targeted by the intervention(s).
- Organizational leaders, including the board and staff, regularly review and assess outcome data related to the implementation of the intervention(s).
- The group collects and analyzes pre-intervention, during and post-intervention outcome data to assess the level of the issue.
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Chapter 1, Section 5: Our Evaluation Model: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
CHAPTER 36: Introduction to Evaluation
Chapter 36, Section 1: A Framework for Program Evaluation: A Gateway to Tools
Chapter 36, Section 2: Intervention Research with Communities: A Gateway to Tools
Chapter 36, Section 6: Participatory Evaluation
CTB Toolkit: Evaluating the Initiative
Troubleshooting Guide: We don't know how to evaluate our program or initiative
CHAPTER 37: Some Operations in Evaluating Community Intervention |
6. Use information on the implementation of the intervention to celebrate, make adjustments, and assure effectiveness of the intervention.
- The group, including staff and board members, uses data and other information to assess the implementation of the intervention and to make necessary adjustments to the intervention(s).
- The group is effective in identifying and responding to barriers and opposition experienced in implementing the intervention.
- The group regularly celebrates successes and accomplishments for progress in implementing the intervention.
- The group regularly shares data regarding the implementation of the intervention and related outcomes data with key leaders, partners, and stakeholders in the community to enhance support for the intervention(s).
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Chapter 39, Section 2: Providing Feedback to Improve the Initiative
Chapter 39, Section 4: Communicating Information to Funders for Support and Accountability
Chapter 40, Section 1: Achieving and Maintaining Quality Performance
Chapter 40, Section 3: Obtaining and Using Feedback from Participants
Chapter 41, Section 1: Arranging Celebrations
Chapter 41, Section 3: Recognizing Goal Attainment
Chapter 41, Section 4: Holding Awards Ceremonies
Chapter 41, Section 6: Honoring Community Champions
Troubleshooting Guide: There is not enough improvement in outcomes
Troubleshooting Guide: There are unintended or unwanted outcomes |
