Building Capacity and Sustainable Prevention Innovations: A Sustainability Planning Model

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Building Capacity and Sustainable Prevention
Innovations A Sustainability Planning Model

• Knowlton Johnson, Ph.D.
• Carol Hays, Ph.D.
• Hayden Center, Ph.D.
• Charlotte Carlton

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Defining Sustainability

• Sustainability is the process of ensuring an
  adaptive prevention system and a sustainable
  innovation that can be integrated into ongoing
  operations to benefit diverse stakeholders.
• Key sources of definition literature,
  sustainability think tank, sustainability
  workgroup

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Literature and experience point to 10 factors
critical to sustaining an innovation

• 5 Capacities of the system or organization
  seeking to sustain the innovation
• 5 Characteristics of the innovation to be
  sustained

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Sustainability Planning Model Components
Objectives
Results
Actions
Expertise
Goal 1 Prevention Infrastructure Capacity
Building
Expertise
A P I E R M
Policies Procedures
Policies Procedures
A P I E R M
A P I E R M
A P I E R M
Resources
Resources
Assess Plan Implement Evaluate Reassess/Modify
Champions
Champions
Organization Community State Federal
StructuresandFormal Linkages
Structures andFormal Linkages
Actions
Objectives
Results
Goal 2 Sustainable Innovation
Ownership
A P I E R M
Ownership
Effectiveness
A P I E R M
Effectiveness
A P I E R M
Quality
Quality
A P I E R M
Relationships
Individual/Peer Family School Community
Society
Relationships
Assess Plan Implement Evaluate Reassess/Modify
Alignment
Alignment
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Goal One

• Continue to build, support and strengthen
  infrastructure capacity of the organization or
  community to ensure an adaptive prevention system
  that is receptive to change.

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5 Capacities Critical to Sustaining an Innovation

• Administrative structures and formal linkages
• Effective leaders and strong champions
• Financial, human, and technological resources
• Administrative policies and procedures
• Expertise and skills

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Goal Two

• Assure that the innovation has specific
  attributes that continue to effectively address
  the needs of those with a stake in the ongoing
  use of the innovation

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5 Innovation Characteristics Critical to
Sustaining an Innovation

• Alignment with needs of innovation stakeholders
• Positive relationships among key implementers
• Successful implementation of the innovation
• Demonstrated effectiveness of the innovation
• Ownership of the innovation by key stakeholders

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Sustainability is a Process that requires action
specific to the innovation

• Sustainability is an ongoing, cyclical change
  process
• Sustainability requires ongoing assessment,
  planning and re-assessment of the system needed
  to support the ongoing use of the innovation

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The Sustainability Action Steps
1. Assess Prevention Infrastructure and
Intervention Challenges
2. Develop sustainability plan (goals,
objectives, activities)
5. Modify Sustainability Plan
3. Execute sustainability actions
4. Evaluate sustainability actions and readiness
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Steps for Sustainability Planning

• Identify the innovation to be sustained
• Assess 5 infrastructure/capacity-building
  factors Assess 5 characteristics of the
  innovation
• Develop strategic sustainability plan to
  strengthen any of the factors found inadequate
• Evaluate the implementation of sustainability
  plan
• Modify plan if necessary to assure effectiveness

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Q A

• DISCUSSION