Transcript Collecting and Using Data

National ROMA Peer to Peer
Trainers
Developing an Individual
Strategic Action Plan for
2005-06
STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN
As you work toward developing a plan
for 2005-06, the following questions may
be helpful as you identify strategies and
actions you will be undertaking to
strengthen the CSBG network in your
community.
Who am I?
 What have I been involved in so far in my community?
 What is my current and projected role in my community?
(Training, support services, lead or participate in discussions
regarding agency improvement and revitalization and/or
community planning)
 What can I do to be a change agent/catalyst for change and to
support the improvement of CAAs to enable them to identify and
meet the anti-poverty needs in my community?
 What is my responsibility (leadership, coordination, participation)
for poverty-related programs in my community?
What is my Community?
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Is it a single agency,
group of agencies,
state,
region,
entire nation?
What is my vision for my
community?
 If a miracle happened,
and my community
was exactly like I want
it to be, what would be
different?
 What does the ideal
community (as I
defined my
community) look like
after the miracle?
Where is my community now? Can I identify the status
of the CSBG network in my community?
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Is there evidence of strategic thinking in the CAAs regarding a
connection among the vision of a community with no poverty, assessed
community need, CAA mission, selection of programs and services
provided, and partnerships maintained?
Is there evidence of the ability of the CAAs to identify outcomes for
families and communities, to measure and document these outcomes, to
aggregate and analyze the outcome data, and to use the analysis of the
data for decision making?
Are agencies working closely with and respected by their geographic
and customer communities?
Are agencies integral partners in the leadership of their communities?
Can I identify the relationship between the state and the local CAAs?
Between the state and the association? Between the association and the
local CAAs? Between our state and national efforts and trends?
What needs to change?
What do I hope to accomplish?
Can I identify some thing(s) that will
move the CSBG network to increased
capacity to achieve results?
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What will change?
How will I know when we have been
successful?
What will the change look like?
· How will CAAs be different?
· How will the relationships among the state,
the association and the local CAAs be
different?
· How will the state interface with the
national network differently?
What strategies will help move my
community to the shared vision?
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Can I identify specific strategies and
action steps that are needed to move the
CSBG network to increased capacity to
achieve results?
What resources do I need to
be successful?
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How much time away from my agency (or my regular work) do I
need to commit to these strategies?
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What support do I need from my agency or state leadership to
encourage agency participation?
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How can I use and/or strengthen relationships with my
community network?
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What financial support will I need? (for travel, materials, etc.)
What resources do I already
have?
What partners do I have?
How much support can I count on from these partners?
How much support do I have from local agencies, state offices
and associations, national groups?
Other resources?
When we meet next year, what will I
have achieved?
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What is different?
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What segments of the community have adopted strategic
plans or developed a community wide vision?
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Will did I do to find resources? Developed a new
resource ?
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What activities have I done and what was the impact of
the activities?
Identify outcome to be
achieved.
Identify current
situation in
community.
What is your vision?
What will change?
What needs to change?
STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS
Identify the resources
you have available.
Identify
strategies that
will be
implemented to
address the
current situation
and that will
achieve the
desired outcome.
How do the
strategies relate
to your mission?
Identify the supportive
partnerships and linkages
you have available.
Identify the resources
you need to secure.
Identify the partnerships and
linkages you need to secure.
Identify outcome indicators:
the number/percent of change
you will see.
What will the change look like?
Measure and document the
change.
How will you know?
What will you report?
Re-assess resources and
partnerships (available and needed)
© Community Action Association of , “Model for Planning,” for the National ROMA
Peer-To-Peer Training Program, September, 2005
Analyze the data.
What will you do to improve?