American Cancer Society
Active For LifeSM
Program Director Training
What is Active For Life?
• Flexible, 10-week team-based worksite physical activity
program
• Team-based approach, with ability to set individual goals
• Receive a point for each minute of physical activity –
counts toward individual and team goals
• Participants, Team Captains, and Directors provide
encouragement to succeed
• Based on the Stages of Change Theory and the American
Cancer Society (ACS) Guidelines for Physical Activity
AFL Structure with a Program
Director
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Team Captain
Participant
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Team Captain
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Team Captain
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Program Director Role
• Manages a single AFL campaign
• May be the highest role in the AFL
campaign if Executive Director level is not
needed
• Works closely with Executive Director if
applicable
 Invites Team Captains and Manages
Teams
Program Director Invitation
 Receive the email invitation to serve as the
Program Director
 Click on the Link or copy the link in its entirety
and paste it in your browser, press return/enter
Complete the Invitation Process
 Click “Accept
Invitation”
 If you DO NOT
have an ACS
Account, choose
“REGISTER”
Accept terms of creating an ACS Account
Establish Campaign
 Complete each field of the form and save
(explanation of each field is on the following two slides)
Campaign Management Fields
 Name the campaign
 Set the campaign start date -(date of the 10 week
campaign) The Campaign Finish date will populate 10
weeks from the Campaign Start date
 Post-Campaign Survey Deadline -determines how long
you want to allow participants to complete the postprogram survey
 Program Director- select a user to be a Program Director
or click Invite PD to invite a Program Director
 Enhanced Campaign-If “yes” participants will be able to
add a food tracker, weight tracker and/or BMI calculator
to their personal dashboard. These tools are optional,
confidential, not a part of the AFL reporting system and
are simply provided as additional resources for individuals
to use during their AFL campaign.
Campaign Management Fields Cont.
 Enable News- use 10 weekly newsletters as default news
to display as weekly campaign news for participants to
see
 Enable Motivational Emails- If “Yes” users will receive
automatic email messages supporting them to meet their
goal or congratulate them for exceeding their goal.
Individual users can choose to stop receiving these
automatic emails by updating their profile.
 Campaign Supports Bonus Points- Bonus points are
determined by the company and are an optional feature
to the AFL program. Bonus points are reported in AFL
campaign reports. You or the Program Directors and/or
Team Captains will need to communicate to participants
what counts as Bonus Points in your campaign(s).
Campaign Tools
Program Director Abilities
Step by step instructions are available in the Help
section in the AFL site
Some examples of abilities are below:
 Invite Team Captains
 Invite Participants
 Email Team Participants
 Move participants
 Edit Goals
 Change Team Captains and make Co-Captains
 Manage Teams
 Add and Manage Offline Users
 Manage Campaign News
 Select additional Survey Questions
Campaign Tips
Program Director Resources
 Campaign Tips has tips and resources needed to learn about AFL and
implement successful campaigns
 Some tips include:
 AFL PD Training Manual
 AFL Suggested Campaign Timeline
 Access to our Print On Demand Site
 Access to ACS Podcasts series
My Reports
 Clicking on the report title will display the
corresponding report for your campaign.
 As PD, you will see reports for the whole
campaign or by team or by participant
 Team Captains have reports only for their
team
My Dashboard
 A Program Director must either be a Team Captain or a Participant
on a team to have a dashboard, this is where activity points are
tracked, campaign news displays, and where optional nutrition and
weight tools will display.
Help Features
 The Help Button is role specific and has step by
step instructions on how to do common PD tasks.
Each role in AFL has access to the Help button.
Future Sign Ins
 Each time you are ready to sign in to Active
For Life, go to www.activeforlife.org
 Click “Sign In” to access Active For Life
 Do not attempt to sign in with your
invitation link
Program Director Check List
 Complete Campaign Management fields
 Send communication to staff about Active For
Life and to be on the look out for email
invitations or to use the Join A Team button on
the home page
 Send Team Captain invitation emails
 Review optional survey questions and select
which ones you want to display for your
participants
Prepare your optional campaign news to enter in
the site each week
Join a team!
Need More Help?
Contact your ACS Relationship
Manager
or activeforlife@cancer.org