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
• “If you don’t know where you’re going, you will end up
somewhere else.” – Yogi Berra
• “Always, Always have a plan.” – Rick Riordan
• “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and
hopes, but no plans.” – Peter F. Drucker
• 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
 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:
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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.
Ideas for objectives for Area 1:
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Select staff to participate in school health committees and
represent after school
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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
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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?
Calendar Your Action Plan
Timeline
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Help to ensure your program stays on track.
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Serves as a reminder to revisit your Action Plan
frequently (at meetings, TA and coaching visits, etc.)
to determine if any adjustments are needed.
1. How often do you revisit your Action Plans?
2. How often are you checking your progress?
3. 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!
Partner: California Department of Education
Nutrition Services Division
Adjourn
GOOOOOOO TEAM!!!!