The second webinar in the Campus Mental Health Action Planning series describes how to develop a clear and specific definition of campus problems that will help drive program planning. This session focuses on examining data relating to student mental health and wellness; prioritizing problems and choosing which to address; and setting goals for health behavior and systems change.
Resources for Strategic Planning
The following list contains items specific to this page.
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CampusMHAP Webinar II: Identifying Priorities
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CampusMHAP Webinar III: Developing Programs
The third Campus Mental Health Action Planning webinar focuses on selecting and developing campus practices that are most likely to decrease mental health problems, suicidal behavior, and suicide and promote mental health and wellness. Topics covered include how to: develop a comprehensive, multi-strategy approach; choose “best practices”; and use a logic model in program planning.
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CampusMHAP Webinar IV: Measuring Impact
The fourth Campus Mental Health Action Planning webinar provides a basic orientation to the design and implementation of process and outcome evaluations for programs that promote mental health and reduce risk factors for suicide and suicidal behavior. This session covers key methods of quantitative and qualitative program evaluation; experiences of one campus in planning an evaluation of a widely-used training program; and how to work with your program evaluator in developing an appropriate evaluation plan.
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Experiences in Effective Prevention: The U.S. Department of Education’s Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Models on College Campuses Grants
This publication reviews and synthesizes information gained from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools’ model programs to identify the characteristics that are common to model programs that can be adapted for other campuses. Lessons are applicable to the prevention of any health problem on campus. Campus collaborations, including task forces and coalitions, are addressed on pages 35-44 and 65-68.
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Getting to Outcomes™ 2004: Promoting Accountability through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
Incorporating traditional evaluation, empowerment evaluation, results-based accountability, and continuous quality improvement, this manual’s ten-step process enhances practitioners’ prevention skills while empowering them to plan, implement, and evaluate programs.
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Getting to Outcomes™ 2004: Promoting Accountability through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (Pages 15-31, 57-62, and 63-77)
Pages 15-31, 57-62, and 63-77 address the problem description step in strategic planning.
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Getting to Outcomes™ 2004: Promoting Accountability through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (Pages 79-92)
Pages 79-92 address selecting or developing strategies as part of the strategic planning process.
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Health Education Resource Exchange: Behavior Change Theories and Models
This website contains information about various health behavior change theories.
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Leaving a Legacy: Our vision: The Legacy Wheel (Strategic Planning)
These web pages, on the site of the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention, provide tools to help campus planners build sustainable programs. See especially Strategic Planning.
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Making Health Communication Programs Work: A Planner’s Guide
This book – known as the “pink book” – describes a practical approach for planning and implementing health communication efforts.


