Plan

In the Plan stage, the focus is on creating a vision and plans for where you want to go. In this stage and each of the four stages grassroots organizations and their leaders have found that there are 5 guiding principles that are important to keep in mind. Click on each guiding principle to find resources related to it.

1. Foster Youth-Adult Partnerships
2. Mobilize Community Assets
3. Tap into Individual Gifts
4. Build Teamwork
5. Reflect and Learn

Below we list tools and activities for each of the five guiding principles within the Plan stage.

1. Foster Youth-Adult Partnerships
   • Charting Youth Involvement
   • Planning Activities for Vision Day Logistics and Design
   • Youth Workshop: Benefits and Challenges
   • Why should we bother?
   • Action Planning
   • Nothing but the Facts
   • Stages of Youth-Adult Partnerships
   • Poetry in Motion
   • Bringing Definition to Youth and Adult
   • Developing a Common Vision
   • The Party
   • Adult Workshop: Benefits and Challenges
   • Adult Workshop: Youth as Partners
   • Adult Workshop: Visioning/Evaluation
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2. Mobilize Community Assets
   • Identifying Barriers to Effective Partnerships
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3. Tap into Individual Gifts
   • Perceptions of Power
   • Making Stone Soup
   • Staying Connected: Online Forums as Tools for Community Change
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4. Build Teamwork
   • Activities for Recruiting for the Vision Day
   • Real Partnering
   • Determining the Group's Focus
   • Checklist for Choosing an Issue
   • Using the Fishbone Process to Generate Action Plans
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5. Reflect and Learn
   • Creating a Theory of Change
   • Learning the Indicators of Successful Youth-Adult Partnerships
   • Revisiting Mission and Goals
   • Logic Modeling
   • Warm Up
   • Identifying Goals
   • Generating Evaluation Questions
   • Specifying Indicators and Standards
   • How, What, Why Choosing Methods
   • Taking Stock of Existing Data
   • Evaluation Methods
   • What are your core values?
   • Defining Respect
   • Rock Activity for Community Change
   • Roca Medicine Wheel & Medicine Wheel Reflection Tool
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