Implement your intervention activities
- Hire/train instructors/facilitators
Once you and your partners have decided what types of information and activities your group education will cover, you will need to determine if you need to hire additional instructors/facilitators or conduct trainings for existing partners. You and your partners identified skills sets in the preparation stage that your instructors/facilitators might need to conduct your intervention. You and your partners may need to revisit these skills sets to determine the make up of your instructors. You and your partners may also need to revisit the design of your group education intervention to determine how many instructors are needed. You may need to multiple instructors to conduct your intervention activities.
- Conduct your group education intervention
Group education may include a number of different strategies including:
- group information exchanges;
- role modeling, demonstrations, and behavioral rehearsal with feedback and reinforcement;
- group discussion initiated by information provided, videos, photographs, puppet shows, skits, or written vignettes;
- small group exercises.
Before starting your group education intervention, make sure you have all the materials you need to conduct your group education intervention (e.g., handouts, PowerPoint’s, videos, demonstrations). Determine if you need to bring in additional speakers. Schedule the day and time of the session and reserve the space at the location determined by you and your partners. Your session may be conducted in a single or multiple sessions for make sure you make sure you are prepared for each of the sessions.
- Revisit your timeline and roles and responsibilities
As you are implementing your intervention activities, it will be helpful to revisit your timeline and the roles and responsibilities that you outlined in the preparation stage to ensure that you are accomplishing all that you set out to do. You may need to revise your timeline and roles and responsibilities as you encounter barriers and challenges.