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Once you have determined that your partnership would like to implement a group education intervention addressing physical activity, you can begin to create an action plan, or list of detailed steps to be taken to implement your intervention. The time you take to outline your intervention will increase your chances of success. Your action plan may be divided into preparation, action, and evaluation steps. In terms of preparation, it is important to determine the partners, resources, and intervention messages and activities to develop in order to meet your goals and objectives for your physical activity group education intervention. In action, you and your partners begin to take the necessary steps to implement your intervention. Lastly, in evaluation you and your partners will take steps to determine or to give value to what you are doing in your intervention. While evaluation is found in the reflection section of these action steps, evaluation activities can also be found throughout preparation and action as well. Many of these steps you may have already begun to think through before you decided on your intervention, however you may need to revisit these areas as you develop your specific intervention action plan. Use the Physical Activity Action Steps Worksheet and Checklist provided by this website to aid in your intervention development.

Preparation( all sections) Create your partnership Identify your population Record your intervention goals and objectives Assess your community capacity and needed resources Design your intervention activities Identify potential barriers Plan your evaluation methods and measures Action( all sections) Convene your partners and build partnership capacity Revisit your goals and objectives Enhance your community capacity and obtain needed resources Implement your intervention activities Respond to barriers Collect your evaluation data Validate, interpret and summarize your findings Share your work with the population     Reflection( all sections) Strengthen your partnership Consider your unintended outcomes and lessons learned and improve your intervention activities and evaluation methods Identify the ongoing needs of the community Sustain your efforts Action Steps Worksheet Action Steps Checklist