Using this information, they create a shared vision of what a better service-delivery system would look like, and they develop a mission statement and a set of goals to guide their future actions. Here, partners begin to explore options that flow from their common concerns and shared vision. They agree to focus on a specific geographic area, and they design a prototype delivery system that incorporates the elements of their shared vision. Partners also develop the technical tools and interagency agreements needed to put their plan into action. During this stage, the group may go back to preceding stages to bring in new partners and to continue building ownerships.
Partners begin to implement the prototype.
They use the information it provides to adjust the policies and practices of the organizations that comprise the prototype service-delivery system. Partners design an ongoing evaluation strategy that helps them to identify specific systems-change requirements, make midcourse corrections, and measure the results. Finally, partners take steps to ensure that systems-change strategies and capacities developed in the prototype are adapted, expanded, and recreated in locations throughout the community where profamily services are needed. To do this, partners continue to develop local leadership, strengthen staff capacity by changing preservice and inservice training, and build a strong constituency for change. All rights reserved.