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Example
Here's one more example of breaking down the individual steps in your action plan. An action step from an action plan to prevent adolescent pregnancy (from the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development's Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: An Action Planning Guide for Building a Caring Community) follows.
The action step or change to be accomplished: Recognize and honor parents and guardians who contribute to the initiative.
Community Initiative: Parent-to-Parent Initiative Date: 2/14/99
Action step or change to be accomplished: Recognizing and honoring parents and guardians who contribute to the initiative.
What actions or changes will occur: Parents and guardians who contribute (e.g., by helping lead parenting workshops) will be presented with some small token of appreciation (e.g., a gift certificate). Those who contribute significantly over a longer period will be publicly recognized at a community party with a certificate of appreciation and another, larger token of appreciation (e.g., a book or a free family dinner donated by local businesses). The recognition efforts should continue for the duration of the initiative.
Who will carry it out: The finance or business committee will solicit donations to give to the parents. The sub-committee that works on presenting the workshops should appoint someone to be in charge of making appreciation certificates and coming up with a way to present them at the end of the workshop. If a community celebration is called for, a sub-committee will likely be needed.
By when (for how long): Recognition should be a part of honoring contributors for the entire length of the initiative.
What resources are needed: Donations will have to be solicited from area businesses so that you'll have items to give to parents and guardians who contribute. The cost of the certificates should be minimal.
Communication (who should know what): We should contact the finances committee about who we should (and should not) approach for donations.