Partner: California Department of Education Nutrition Services Division

Strengthening Your Action Plan

March 12, 2015 Presenters: Josephine Young, Health Manager Trish Anderson, Project Specialist

Action Plan Quotes

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“If you don’t know where you’re going, you will end up somewhere else.”

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Yogi Berra

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“Always, Always have a plan.”

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Rick Riordan

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“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes, but no plans.”

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Peter F. Drucker

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A goal without a plan is just a wish”.

– Antione de Saint-Exupéry

TCHAS Model and Process Timeline

2014-15 (Year 3) Pre-Assessment:

1 for each Mentor Site, 1 for each Mentee Site

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Distributed at May 2013 Training

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Completed and returned at Nov. 2014 Training Action Plan:

1 for each mentor site, 1 for each mentee site

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Distributed at May 2015 Training Final Action Plan to be completed and returned on or before Sept. 1, 2015 Post-Assessment:

1 for each mentor site, 1 for each mentee site

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Distributed and completed at May 2015 Training

Ways to Strengthen Your Program Action Plan

• Created and developed based on results from Assessments • Create and develop meaningful and accomplishable objectives aligned with TCHAS Five Leading Principles • Calendar Your Action Plan Timeline • Make Motivate/Celebrate a priority • Highlight ways to collect data • Revisit / Update Annually

Assessments

• Inform and help to Prioritize Action Plans • Great tool to use as a guide for developing your action plans • Allows identification of program priorities areas with rating of 3 or lower • Please share: 1. Who completed your Assessment? 2. Is the person still with the project?

3. Did you involve your Mentee Team? 4. Does each Mentee site have an individual Assessment?

5. How has your assessment informed your Action Plan?

Creating SMART Goals

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Handout: Creating Smart Objectives (Goals)

Assists with creating meaningful and accomplishable objectives aligned with each of 5 Leading Principles

Example of SMART Objectives

Area 1: Healthy Environment

Establish and Implement Wellness Policy

Here are high priority areas from the needs assessment that we plan to address:

• Our after school site directors serve on school health committees to develop the wellness policy.

• Our site staff have actively participated in the implementation of our district’s wellness policy at the site level.

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Ideas for objectives for Area 1:

Select staff to participate in school health committees and represent after school • Identify staff to participate • Talk with school health committee lead Our site staff have actively participated in the implementation of our district’s wellness policy at the site level • Post wellness policy in after school sites • Train staff about wellness policy

Action Plans serve as a road map to creating a healthy after school environments

Measureable

: Did we do what we said we would do?

Timely:

Did we reach our target date?

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Calendar Your Action Plan Timeline

Help to ensure your program stays on track.

• Serves as a reminder to revisit your Action Plan frequently (at meetings, TA and coaching visits, etc.) to determine if any adjustments are needed.

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How often do you revisit your Action Plans?

How often are you checking your progress?

How do you involve mentee teams or coach mentee teams in the process of assessing, prioritizing and planning to make positive change in their after school program?

Motivate / Celebrate

How have the Assessments and Action Plans helped mentor and mentee teams create a healthy after school environment?

Give an example of how your team celebrated?

Results and Evaluation: Data Collection

Action Plans can help determine how data can be collected and can possibly be used for: a) Program Improvement b)Year-end Reporting c) Case studies d) Information for future grant applications e) Sustaining and expanding TCHAS What are some of the ways you are collecting data and utilizing your data?

Keep it Real!

Adjourn GOOOOOOO TEAM!!!!

Partner: California Department of Education Nutrition Services Division