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PROCESS

The following steps will help your campus task force get started and stay focused on developing your comprehensive environmental approach. Keep in mind that these steps may take a year or more to do. For more details on some of these steps, visit our Resources page.
  1. Determine a common philosophy and mission for the campus task force.

  2. Conduct a thorough scan of the environment, identifying aspects of the specific local environment that are negatively influencing or enabling behavior using a wide variety of data from student surveys, judicial affairs and police reports, health reports, and anecdotal information from the community.

  3. Develop a comprehensive strategic plan with specific, measurable, active, relevant, and timely goals, clear objectives, and specific activities, using a logic model. Ensure that all stakeholders are able to contribute to the decisions reflected in the plan.

  4. Establish an implementation timeline.

  5. Establish a clear plan for evaluating the outcomes of the plan.

  6. Organize the task force by interests, skills, and potential contributions into smaller workgroups to implement aspects of the plan.
Throughout strategic planning,
coalition members should agree to never waver from the purpose:

“to reduce high-risk drinking among college students."


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