GTO step | What the GTO manual provides for each step | Practices BGC club staff carried out within each GTO step |
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1. Needs: what are the needs to address and the resources that can be used? | Information about how to conduct a needs and resources assessment | Club staff reviewed data about the needs of their membership |
2. Goals and outcomes: what are the goals and desired outcomes? | Tools for creating measurable goals and desired outcomes | Each site developed their own broad goals and “desired outcomes”—statements that specify the amount and timing of change expected on specific measures of knowledge, attitudes, behavior |
3. Best practices: which evidence-based programs can be useful in reaching the goals? | Overview of the importance of using evidence-based programs and where to access information about them | Club leaders agreed to use CHOICE as the evidence-based program to implement |
4. Fit: what actions need to be taken so the selected program fits the community context? | Tools to help program staff identify opportunities to reduce duplication and facilitate collaboration with other programs. | Each site reviewed CHOICE for how it would fit within their club and made adaptations to improve fit |
5. Capacity: what capacity is needed for the program? | Assessment tools to help program staff ensure there is sufficient organizational, human and fiscal capacity to conduct the program | Each site assessed their own capacity to carry out CHOICE and made plans to increase capacity when needed |
6. Plan: what is the plan for this program? | Information and tools to plan program activities in detail | Each site conducted concrete planning for doing CHOICE (e.g., who, what, where, when) |
7. Process evaluation: how will the program implementation be assessed? | Information and tools to help program staff plan and implement a process evaluation | Each site collected data on fidelity, attendance, satisfaction to assess program delivery and reviewed that data immediately after implementation |
8. Outcome evaluation: how well did the program work? | Information and tools to help program staff implement an outcome evaluation | Each site collected participant outcome data on actual behavior as well as on mediators such as attitudes and intentions |
9. Continuous quality improvement: how will continuous quality improvement strategies be used to improve the program? | Tools to prompt program staff to reassess GTO steps 1–8 to stimulate program improvement plans | Each site reviewed decisions made and tools completed before implementation and data collected during and after implementation and made concrete changes for the next implementation |
10. Sustainability: if the program is successful, how will it be sustained? | Ideas to use when attempting to sustain an effective program | Each site considered such as securing adequate funding, staffing, and buy-in, to make it more likely that CHOICE would be sustained |