If the intervention produced the outcomes you intended, then it achieved its goals. However, it is still important to consider how you could make the intervention even better and more effective. For instance:
- Can you expand or strengthen parts of the intervention that worked particularly well?
- Are there evidence-based methods or best practices out there that could make your work even more effective?
- Would targeting more or different behaviors or intervening variables lead to greater success?
- How can you reach people who dropped out early or who didn’t really benefit from your work?
- How can you improve your outreach? Are there marginalized or other groups you are not reaching?
- Can you add services—either directly aimed at intervention outcomes, or related services such as transportation—that would improve results for participants?
- Can you improve the efficiency of your process, saving time and/or money without compromising your effectiveness or sacrificing important elements of your intervention?
Good interventions are dynamic; they keep changing and experimenting, always reaching for something better.
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Prevention Planning