Supports
1. Define the community and identify problems or goals the group is interested in addressing.
- Identify the community of place, experience, and/or interest to focus the group's efforts.
- Identify the broad issues the group will address in the community to focus the analysis and assessment of information.
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2. Engage local people and other key stakeholders in analyzing information about the problem.
- Provide an opportunity for local people and other stakeholders with varied interests to participate in analyzing the issue.
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3. Collect and assess information about the extent of the problem or goal and its importance within the community.
- Collect and assess information about the history and context of the community and its importance to the problem or goal.
- Collect and assess information about the extent of the problem or goal and its importance to the community and key stakeholders.
- Populations affected by the problem have been identified and engaged in assessing its importance.
- The group has identified and assessed the consequences of the problem for people affected by it.
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4. Identify the key behaviors of whom and related environmental factors that affect them.
- Identify whose behavior needs to change to affect the immediate problem or conditions contributing to the problem.
- Identify personal factors and environmental factors that put people at risk for (or protect them from) the problem.
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5. Identify resources and barriers to addressing the problem or goal.
- The group has identified potential barriers or resistance to addressing the problem or goal.
- The group has identified organizational or community resources/assets that can be used to help address the problem or goal.
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6. Identify the promising interventions that address the key factors affecting the problem or goal.
- Provide an opportunity for local people and other key stakeholders to propose potential solutions for addressing the problem/goal.
- Review evidence of the effectiveness of promising approaches and consider whether what worked elsewhere might work well in the local situation.
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7. Use the analysis in developing, adapting, and evaluating the approach for addressing the problem or goal.
- The group uses or references the assessment or analysis of the problem or goal to inform or support decision-making.
- The data or information collected in the assessment or analysis is used in evaluating the efforts of the initiative or group.
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