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Identifying Action Steps in Bringing About Community and Systems Change

  

Tools & Checklists

 Contributed by Jenette Nagy Edited by Bill Berkowitz and Jerry Schultz

Tools
Checklist

Tools


Tool 1: Action steps for identified changes

Use this table to identify the changes you want to accomplish and which steps you might take to accomplish it.

Action Steps for Identified Changes

Use this page to outline action steps for each identified change to be sought in each community sector.

Community sector: _________________________________________

Community change to be sought:

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

Actions

By whom

By when

Resources & Support needed/available

Potential barriers or resistance

Communication

What needs to be done?

Who will take action

By which date will the action be done?

What financial, human, political and other resources are need, and available?

What individuals and organizations might resist? How?

What individuals and organizations should be informed about these actions?






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Checklist

Here, you'll find a checklist summarizing the major points contained in the text, ready to use.

___You know what action steps are

___You understand why you should identify action steps

___You know when you should identify action steps

___You know how to identify action steps

___Determine what your group, as a whole and individually, is really good at

___Brainstorm different, specific ways that these strengths can be used to carry out the changes that you have decided upon

___Consider the possible barriers to implementing your proposed changes

___Consider possible ways to remove these barriers

___With all of the above information in mind, brainstorm different ways to go about implementing the proposed changes in each sector that you have chosen

___Make sure each action step includes:

  • What will occur
  • How much, or to what extent, these actions will occur
  • Who will carry out these changes
  • When these changes will take place, and for how long
  • What resources (such as money and staff) are needed to carry out these changes

___Determine a final list of action steps for each community sector from the ideas that came from your brainstorming.

___Pat yourself on the back for getting all your planning done, take a deep breath, and go do what you've said you are going to!

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