Step 5: Planning

Step 5: Planning

After choosing your LTSS model, it's time to shape your implementation approach by understanding challenges and identifying next steps. Strategic planning is a good way to do this.

Strategic planning process

The steps below describe the strategic planning process.

Prepare to meet requirements for financing

Plan for the long term

  • Use information from your SWOT analysis to create action items that address your program’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
  • Determine if protocols within your tribe will require you to do anything else (For example, conducting a needs assessment or hiring staff may require a tribal resolution or you may need to work with your tribe to revise or create codes that deal with elder abuse)
  • Find opportunities to take advantage of current resources. (For example, can a new program share overhead costs with an existing tribal clinic?)
  • Reach out to key contacts within your tribe, community, county, and state to let them know about your program plans
  • Review your current training and funding needs, determine who you can work with to help meet them, and contact them to initiate a relationship and a contract, if needed
  • Create a plan for implementation that lists timelines for each task you need to complete

Resources

After you have created a plan and addressed internal and external factors, your LTSS plan is ready to implement.

 

Proceed to Step 6.

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