| Other Community Planning Processes |
Partnerships for Success |
| Data |
- Data collection as an end to itself.
- Data collection based solely on archival data and trends.
- Data collection process is laborious and time intensive.
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- Strategic and time-limited review of data’
- Incorporates community values
- Builds on previous community planning efforts
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| Planning |
- Exhaustive list of recommendations.
- Lack of prioritization of recommendations.
- Lack of structured response to changing conditions.
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- Coherent and meaningful recommendations.
- Considers community capacity and values.
- Plan designed as a living document.
- Plan developed with implementation and evaluation in mind.
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| Evidence |
- Limited attention to evidence and feasibility in planning phase.
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- Explains evidence in terms of a continuum of confidence levels.
- Adds feasibility as an equal consideration in decision-making
- Differentiates between what you “should” do and what you “can” do.
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| Implementation |
- Limited attention to implementation during planning phase.
- Limited support of implementation activities.
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- Emphasis on defining what will be implemented over a specific time frame.
- Accountability for turning recommendations into actions.
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| Evaluation |
- Limited attention to evaluation during planning phase.
- • Limited support of evaluation activities.
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- Accountability for linking actions to measureable outcomes for children, youth and families.
- Coaching continues through the implementation and evaluation phases.
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| Sustainability |
- Limited attention to sustainability during planning phase.
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- Community mobilization enhancement activities are incorporated throughout planning, implementation and evaluation activities.
- • Culminates in the development of a portfolio of strategies designed to impact “big picture” child and family well-being outcomes.
- Based on a community capacity building approach. The process is designed to increase capacity to employ the process without outside help.
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