Strategic planning is pivotal to prevention success. It brings together all your data collection and capacity-building work to create an overall vision of what your coalition is attempting to do and how it will evaluate the results of its efforts. Strategic planning increases the effectiveness of your prevention efforts by focusing energy, ensuring that staff and other stakeholders are working toward the same goals, and providing the means for assessing and adjusting programmatic direction as needed.
In this step, you will use the information you obtained during Steps 1 and 2 to develop a comprehensive plan and logic model for addressing substance misuse and abuse in your community.
Guidelines for PFS 2015 grantees on developing a strategic plan and logic model are provided in the PFS 2015 Strategic Plan Development Guide and the PFS 2015 Logic Model Development Guide. While the guidelines are targeted to PFS 2015 grantees, the guidance in these resources will also be useful to other groups.