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MEASURE OUTCOMES How will you measure progress and success? What are your outcome measures? How often will you check and measure your progress? Who will be responsible for collecting and reporting the information/data? How will you evaluate your initiative to determine success?

Healthy Living and Healthy Lifestyles

• • • • • For more details on this project, see chapter 5, idea 1.

TOPIC: Outreach IDEA: Community Cafés: RESOURCES What resources can • guide this project using evidence-based, best-practices? • Are there templates, information, guides already in place? What are others doing? • Find out about other initiatives. What are other schools, districts, states doing? Do not limit yourself to nursing-related initiatives. Be sure to ask what were the lessons learned. • Are there funding sources and grants that can

ACTION STEPS Consider who will be affected and how? Get buy-in for your initiative. Who are the individuals who must be involved and engaged in your initiative? Who can lead the initiative? What partners/stakeholders should be involved? What resources will be needed? (i.e. types of staff and required time; supplies and materials, equipment, other resources; estimated What are possible challenges and barriers? Reflect on these and think about

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QUICK START FACT SHEET KEY PRINCIPLE: COMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH GOALS What exactly is it that you want to achieve? Discover the restraining • forces that act to keep the problem from changing, and forces that may drive change. • Make emergent knowledge and insight visible and actionable. Use understanding of these forces in devising and identifying targets and agents of change. Develop a team of • community partners culture of health in the comm

THE IDEA What areas do you want to focus on for improvement? Desire to understand barriers and facilitators to healthy living and healthy lifestyles in the school community. Incorporate principles of Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child to create an active, collaborative space that provides a springboard for multiple perspectives and meaningful discussions. Group discussions often provide insights that might not emerge in intervie

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