The Tribal Youth TTA Logic Model Tool

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The Tribal Youth T/TA Logic Model Tool

• Part I

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The Strat Pak
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How Logical is Your Program?
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Usefulness of Logic Models

• A logic model helps to describe what your program
  is doing and for what purpose
• It exposes the underlying assumptions for why
  your program is expected to meet your goals and
  address your problems
• It can be used to communicate what your program
  is about to partners and potential funders
• It can be used to keep people accountable for
  what they are supposed to do
• It is the basis for your evaluation plan and
  useful in creating your action plan

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Logic Model Tool

• Step 1 State problems
• Step 2 Develop goal statements that address your
  stated problems
• Step 3 Identify TYP grant category that your
  goal is related to
• Step 4 Identify strategies and activities to
  address stated problems and meet goals
• Step 5 Uncover underlying assumptions in your
  strategies and how these strategies will address
  problems and goals

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Logic Model Tool

• Steps 6 7 Identify objectives and measures for
  assessing program implementation
• Step 8 Identify partners that help with each
  task of your strategy
• Steps 9 10 Identify objectives and measures
  for program outcomes

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The Usefulness of a Logic Model
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Defining Problems

• Data identifying the communitys problems that
  will be addressed by your program
• Usually present in grant applications
• Example Problem Statement 32 of tribal teens
  who regularly attend our community center report
  that they have gotten drunk at least one time in
  the past 30 days.
• Example Problem Statement 57 of tribal teens
  who get drunk on a regular basis report that they
  received the alcohol from an adult (parent, older
  sibling, aunt/uncle, neighbor).

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Defining Goals

• Goals are broad statements that describe the
  longer-term impacts that you are trying to
  achieve
• Goal statements address the community needs that
  the project will target
• Example Goal Statements
• To reduce alcohol use in the youth of our
  community.
• To decrease access to alcohol for the youth of
  our community.

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TYP Grant Category

• Category 1 Providing prevention services to
  impact risk factors for delinquency
• Category 2 Providing interventions for
  court-involved tribal youth
• Category 3 Improving the tribal juvenile
  justice system
• Category 4 Providing alcohol and drug abuse
  prevention programs
• Category 5 Providing mental health program
  services

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Specifying Your Strategies Activities

• The strategy is the overall method that you will
  use to create change in your community and
  accomplish your goals.
• Your activities are the steps that you will take
  to implement each strategy.
• Program strategies and activities answer the
  following
• What are we going to be doing?
• When are we going to do it?
• How much are we going to do?
• To whom are we going to do it?

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Specifying Your Strategies Activities

• Example Strategy and Activities
• Strategy Implement the Sons and Daughters of
  Tradition curriculum.
• Activities Train 2 service providers to
  implement a Sons and Daughters of Tradition
  program. These providers will then implement the
  program in our local community center to 100
  youth between the ages of 12-18 over the course
  of a year. Youth will be recruited through
  community center fliers and program
  demonstrations. The program will be delivered in
  36 one-hour sessions offered once a week.

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Specifying Your If-Then Statements
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Specifying Your If-Then Statements

• Your If-Then Statements help clarify the
  underlying assumptions of your program
• Why and how program activities are expected to
  lead to your goals and desired changes

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Specifying Your If-Then Statements

• Example If-Then Statements
• IF Sons and Daughters of Tradition is
  implementedTHEN kids will learn the skills
  necessary to become healthy and strong members of
  the tribal community, including ways to
  recognize, avoid, and get help for problems that
  they see or experience which may include alcohol,
  drugs, or violence.

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Specifying Your If-Then Statements

• Example If-Then Statements Continued
• IF kids learn the skills necessary to become
  healthy and strong members of the tribal
  community, including ways to recognize, avoid,
  and get help for problems that they see or
  experience which may include alcohol, drugs, or
  violenceTHEN they acquire a strong positive
  identity for themselves, and they will be less
  likely to want to try alcohol and other dangerous
  activities, more likely to say no when pressured,
  help friends who fall into dangerous situations,
  and participate in activities that are
  alcohol-free.

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Specifying Your If-Then Statements

• Example If-Then Statements Continued
• IF kids acquire a strong positive identity for
  themselves and are less likely to want to try
  alcohol and other dangerous activities, more
  likely to say no when pressured, help friends who
  fall into dangerous situations, and participate
  in activities that are alcohol-freeTHEN there
  will be fewer youth in our community that abuse
  alcohol and get into trouble with the law.

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Putting It Together
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The Tribal Youth T/TA Logic Model Tool

• Part II

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Logic Model Terminology
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Specifying Your Performance Objectives

• Performance objectives define the essential parts
  of the implementation process.
• They should reflect the steps you will take to
  implement the strategies and activities that you
  have already identified
• They should be easily measurable so that you can
  identify when you have reached your objective

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Specifying Your Performance Objectives

• Examples
• Train 2 service providers on implementation of
  Sons and Daughters of Tradition curriculum by
  September 1, 2008.
• Deliver the curriculum to 100 teens by September
  1, 2009.
• Deliver 36 hours of the curriculum in the first
  year.

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Specifying Your Process Measures
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Specifying Your Process Measures

• Process Measures are the data used to document
  the implementation of activities. They describe
• What was done
• How it was done
• To whom it was done
• For whom it was done
• Process measures should also
• Assess the effectiveness of program components
• Identify variables that may impact program
  success
• Be used to change and improve the program
• You are required to collect certain process
  measures as part of the Government Performance
  Results Act (GPRA) of 1993.

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Specifying Your Process Measures

• Examples of Process Measures
• Number of service providers trained to implement
  the program
• Number of teens who received the curriculum
  (GPRA)
• Total number of hours each teen received in the
  curriculum (GPRA)
• Program observation to assess whether the
  curriculum was delivered as written
• Participants ratings of the usefulness of the
  program and comments for program improvements

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Specifying Your Partners

• Who will help with each activity?
• Helps to map out how each of your partners is
  contributing to the overall initiative
• Helps to serve as a work plan or the basis for
  ongoing memoranda of agreement
• Example Partners
• Local community center will hire the service
  providers to implement Sons and Daughters of
  Tradition as well as provide time and meeting
  space for the classes.
• Tribal elders will provide training and
  assistance in implementing the program.
• Service providers will recruit program
  participants and implement the program.

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Specifying Your Outcome Objectives

• Outcome objectives are specific statements that
  identify 1) what will change for whom, 2) by
  how much, and 3) by when.
• Short-term outcome objectives are the immediate
  program effects that you expect to achieve.
• Long-term outcome objectives are the long-term or
  ultimate effects of the program.
• Example of a short-term outcome objective There
  will be a 20 increase in knowledge about the
  risks and dangers of alcohol use in tribal teens
  ages 12-18 from September 1, 2008, to September
  1, 2009.
• Example of a long-term outcome objective There
  will be a 15 decrease in alcohol use in tribal
  teens ages 12-18 from the beginning of the grant
  to the end of the grant.

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Specifying Your Outcome Measures

• Outcome Measures are the measurable indicators of
  whether you have achieved your outcome objectives
• You are required to collect certain outcome
  measures as part of GPRA.
• Copy your outcome objective and add as measured
  by
• Example of a short-term outcome measure There
  will be a 20 increase in knowledge about the
  risks and dangers of alcohol use in tribal teens
  ages 12-18 from September 1, 2008, to September
  1, 2009, as measured by a pre- and post-test of
  alcohol knowledge.
• Example of a long-term outcome measure There
  will be a 15 decrease in alcohol use in tribal
  teens ages 12-18 from the beginning of the grant
  to the end of the grant, as measured by an
  alcohol use survey taken before the start of the
  grant and at the end of the grant. (GPRA)

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Putting It Together
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The OJJDP Logic Model
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TYP Category
Strategies Activities
Outcome Measures
Problems
Process Measures
Outcome Objectives
Goals