SOARS 2015 - Walk With Ease Faculty Logic Model
Faculty Logic Model - Walk With Ease Narrative Summary
Develop your 2015 Plan of Work in a Word document and paste into the SOARS online system.
This allows you to be more thoughtful with your planning and develop a higher quality plan that will be easier to report accomplishments toward.
Each Logic Model asks for the Program Title and the Work Area:
Walk with Ease
Healthy People and Behaviors
Long-Term Outcome/Impact for this SPWA
Below is sample text for Healthy People and Behaviors questions under the Long-Term
Outcome/Impact section. Add, delete, and edit text to reflect Walk with Ease programming in your unit. Copy and paste into SOARS.
Describe what will be done and who will be reached in narrative form.
Describe the staff make-up of your unit that will carry out the 2015 Walk With Ease Plan in the beginning of your narrative in this section.
Arthritis Foundation's Walk with Ease (WWE) program is an evidence-based, structured 6-week physical activity and self-management program that can be done by individuals or groups led by a trained leader. Adults with (or without) arthritis and beginners to the physically fit are the target audience for the program. Walk with
Ease program goals include promoting successful physical activity, promoting selfmanagement for walk safely and comfortably, and encouraging participants to continue walking. OSU Extension has contracted to provide an average of 4 programs in every county with an average of 12 participants per program by the end of June 2017.
OSU Extension will oversee 75 WWE programs with an average of 12 participants in each program.
Briefly describe the process of how the need for this program was determined
(needs assessment).
The OSU Extension FCH program is documenting and evaluating the implementation and program outcomes of WWE.
What are the short-term (learning) outcomes for this program? (Narrative or outline form
Volunteer leaders will be identified and trained using WWE online training materials to lead WWE groups of approximately 12 participants. In-person trainings for volunteer leaders will also be conducted around the state. Volunteer leaders will

SOARS 2015 - Walk With Ease Faculty Logic Model develop KSAs to promote successful physical activity, promote self-management for walk safely and comfortably, and encourage participants to continue walking.
What are the medium-term (action, behavior change) outcomes for this program?
(Narrative/outline)
Volunteer leaders will recruit and encourage participation of the targeted numbers of participants/session and provide additional support by means of technical assistance, identifying a suitable location for program activities, providing supplies, etc. as needed for program success. WWE participants and volunteer leaders will be linked via Extension resources, with other programs following WWE to help maintain physical activity participation and programming.
Extension Themes
Please indicate if this program contributes to any of the following (check all that apply)
Strengthen Communities and Economies
Sustain Natural Resources
Promote Healthy Families and Individuals