1. Do we agree on our community’s needs and what our community is concerned about?
2. Do we have a clear vision and mission for the group?
- An Overview of Strategic Planning or “VMOSA” (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans)
- Proclaiming Your Dream: Developing Vision and Mission Statements
- Developing and Communicating a Vision
3. Have we developed objectives and strategies?
- An Overview of Strategic Planning or “VMOSA” (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans)
- Creating Objectives
- Developing Successful Strategies: Planning to Win
4. Have we developed a clear action plan (i.e., who would do what by when, with what communication?) for each intervention component to be implemented?
- Toolkit: Developing Strategic and Action Plans
- An Overview of Strategic Planning or “VMOSA” (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans)
- Developing an Action Plan
- Identifying Action Steps in Bringing About Community and System Change
5. Have members of the community been part of the process of strategic planning?
- Toolkit: Developing Strategic and Action Plans
- Encouraging Involvement in Community Work
- Involving Key Influentials in the Initiative
- Involving People Most Affected by the Problem
- Developing a Strategic Plan
- Learning From and Contributing to Constituents
- Participatory Approaches to Planning Community Interventions
- Identifying Targets and Agents of Change: Who Can Benefit and Who Can Help
- Recognizing Allies
6. Have we drafted a framework or model of how change will occur?
- Toolkit: Developing a Framework or Model of Change
- Some Other Models for Promoting Community Health and Development
- Developing a Logic Model or Theory of Change
7. Have we put a process in place for renewing the group’s action plan and model of change?
- Toolkit: Developing Strategic and Action Plans
- Toolkit: Developing a Framework or Model of Change
- Social Marketing of Successful Components of the Initiative
- Organizing a Retreat
- Understanding Social Marketing: Encouraging Adoption and Use of Valued Products and Practices
- Planning for Long-Term Institutionalization
- Strategies for the Long-Term Institutionalization of an Initiative: An Overview
- Strategies for Sustaining the Initiative
- Promoting the Adoption of the Initiative’s Mission and Objectives
8. Is our group unified and sufficiently free of internal conflicts?
- Creating and Gathering a Group to Guide Your Initiative
- Building Teams: Broadening the Base for Leadership
- Recognizing the Challenges of Leadership
- Building a Sustaining Commitment
- Promoting Internal Communication
- Training for Conflict Resolution
- Survival Skills for Advocates
9. Do we have processes in place for resolving conflicts?
- Developing a Plan for Communication
- Developing Personnel Policies
- Building and Sustaining Relationships
- Training for Conflict Resolution
10. Have we taken steps to encourage open and full communication within our group?
- Core Functions in Leadership
- Communicating Information About Community Health and Development
- Developing a Plan for Communication
- Developing Personnel Policies
- Promoting Internal Communication