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Warm-up Question: Which is better?

Hot chocolate Hot apple cider

Implementing

Sustainability Plans: Troubleshooting Challenges

January 21, 2014

Central Resource Team

SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT)

Presenter:

Dodi Swope

CAPT Associate

captus.samhsa.gov

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This training was developed under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration’s (SAMHSA) Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies

contract. Reference # HHSS277200800004C.

For training use only.

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Recording

This webinar is being recorded and archived, and will be available to all webinar

participants. We may also share this recording with individuals who were unable to participate in this event. Please contact

the webinar facilitator if you have any concerns or questions.

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Introduction to Connect Pro

• We will be using the following webinar features today: Attendee List, Chat, PowerPoint, Polls, and Short-Answer Pods

• To ask a question, type into the chat window or “raise your hand”

• To mute and unmute your phone, press *#

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Primary Audience

Iowa Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG) state staff, capacity coaches, and sub-recipient SPF SIG Coordinators.

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Objectives for Today

• Identify potential solutions for addressing four major challenges related to sustainability plan implementation

• Describe approaches for developing effective presentations to engage potential partners

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Facilitator

Molly Ferguson

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Presenter

Dodi Swope

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Poll

What has been your biggest roadblock as you have been implementing your sustainability plans?

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Using your Sustainability Plan as a Roadmap

• Revisit your mission and vision

• Make adjustments to your plan as needed– What is working?– What mid-course

corrections do you need to make?

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Implementing Sustainability Plans

Identified challenges in Iowa:• Creating a centralized location for data• Recruiting and retaining sustainability

workgroup members• Sustaining enforcement strategies• Identifying funding opportunities• Developing effective presentations

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Part 1: Potential Solutions

• Creating a centralized location for data• Recruiting and retaining sustainability

workgroup members• Sustaining enforcement strategies• Identifying funding opportunities

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Where will your data live?

Creating a centralized location for data:

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Recruiting and retaining sustainability workgroup members:

Who are your key players?

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Sustaining enforcement strategies:How can you successfully engage law enforcement?

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fundingIdentifying

How can you stay in the

funding loop?

opportunities:

Handout 1: Grant Writing Resources for Iowa

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Part 2: Approaches to Developing Effective Presentations

How can you most effectively present your prevention successes to engage potential partners?

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Activity: Past Presentations

• Think about a time when you had a negative experience watching a presentation.– What made it so ineffective? What would you

have changed about it?• Think about a time when you watched a

particularly effective presentation.– What did you enjoy about it? Why did it

work?

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Revisit your case statement as a starting point for developing presentations.

Presentations: Case Statement

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Presentations: A Three-Pronged Approach

Why what we

do matters

Why it should matter to you

How you can support

us

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Checking In

• Did we miss any ‘roadblocks’?

• Approaches for success

• Next steps

Iowa Department of Public Health Reminders

• Meet with Sustainability Subcommittee on a quarterly basis (document in the Online Documentation and Support System - ODSS)

• Update Sustainability Plan– Work with Sustainability Subcommittee to

update plan– Use a different color font or highlight

additions/revisions– Submit to Julie Hibben via e-mail by March 14

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Taking the pulse of the group

• What is one thing we have discussed that you can use to improve your sustainability plan implementation moving forward?

• What questions do you still have?

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Evaluation

A custom Survey Monkey evaluation link will be emailed to you from our evaluator, Anu

Sharma.

Please take a moment to complete the evaluation when you receive the link via email.

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If you have questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to contact:

Molly Ferguson, Training and Technical Assistance Associatemferguson@edc.org