Progress 09/01/12 to 08/31/14
Outputs
Target Audience: The intended audience for Element 1 includes both military and civilian program professionals who support military service members and their families. Element 2 efforts focused on Active Duty, National Guard, and Reserve Component personnel and their spouses. This specific audience was intended to inform the planning and monitoring of CCB initiatives at the local and state level. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? The Community Capacity Building training and the ICRI will be made available to the public in the first quarter of 2015. The training, titled "Community Capacity Building: Supporting Military Service Members and Families" will be made available through the Military OneSource website. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
This project built on the work of Drs. Mancini (Project PI) and Bowen (Co- investigator), which focuses on community action and change. The work on community action and change influenced the development of an interactive, online training to prepare civilian and military connected professionals to function from a Community Capacity Building (CCB) perspective and enhance the capacities of communities to achieve desired results. Community capacity reflects the extent that formal systems and informal networks (a) demonstrate a sense of shared responsibility for the general welfare of the community and its members and (b) demonstrate collective competencies in taking advantage of opportunities for addressing community needs. The training highlights the importance of formal systems and informal networks as leverage points in creating change in communities. Program professionals will have information needed to more effectively support communities and to meet the needs of and activate the assets of military service members and families. They will also know the importance of moving away from an activity-practice orientation to a result-focused planning strategy that focuses on results to be achieved. Participants are provided with active learning opportunities through the interactive qualities of an online training, including narration of the training content, interactive activities, and case-study material from the field so that participants receive information about real on-the-ground situations related to mobilizing organizations and communities to support military service members and their families. In addition, the Individual and Community Readiness Inventory (ICRI), was developed to provide an easy-to-use and easy-to-interpret web-based assessment tool for informing community capacity planning and evaluation efforts at local, state, regional, and national levels. The assessment tool is applicable for use in the Active and Reserve components of the U.S. Military, including the Naitonal Guard and the Air National Guard, and separate versions of the assessment tool are available for military members and the civilian spouses of these members. The ICRI fills an important void in the availablity of short, highly focused assessment tools that are designed to assess the ability of military members and the spouses of military members to manage life challenges associated with the military lifestyle. The tool also includes measures of informal and formal resources for promoting and sustaining the readiness and preparedness of military families in the communities in which they live. The ICRI incorporates cutting-edge software in its design, administration, and reporting features. Element 1: Development of online CCB training curriculum 1) Major activities completed; To ensure the highest quality and clearest delivery of our message, each module and accompanying documents underwent several reviews before submitting to DoD/PAO for review and approval. Additionally, for each module, the UGA/UNC team, in collaboration with Flying Bridge Technologies, received image permissions for visuals, incorporated interactive elements and examples, completed consistency pilot testing, recorded narration, edited narration content, developed each online module, transcribed all audio and video, completed functionality testing, completed final reviews, made final changes, and submitted all modules to DoD for testing and online hosting. 2) Data collected; Nothing to report 3) Summary statistics and discussion of results and; Nothing to report 4) Key outcomes or other accomplishments realized. Nothing to report Element 2: Assets and needs oriented online tool 1) Major activities completed; During the final reporting period, the ICRI-M and ICRI-S were completed and pilot tested, all changes and edits were made to the inventories on the basis of the pilot test and OSD requests, the online system for ICRI administration (user interface) and reporting (administrator interface) was developed, and “how to” materials for administrators were developed and uploaded. 2) Data collected; Nothing to report 3) Summary statistics and discussion of results and; Nothing to report 4) Key outcomes or other accomplishments realized. Nothing to report
Publications
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Progress 09/01/12 to 08/31/13
Outputs
Target Audience: The intended audience for Element 1 includes both military and civilian program professionals who support military service members and their families. Element 2 efforts focused on Active Duty, National Guard, and Reserve Component personnel and their spouses. This specific audience was intended to inform the planning and monitoring of CCB initiatives at the local and state level. Changes/Problems: Current government furloughs have resulted in delays for project approvals and production. Delays have continued in the approval process of module content and associated materials, although these delays are considered normal when multiple complex organizations work in partnership. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Element 1: Development of online CCB training curriculum During this reporting period, the UGA/UNC team has been actively working to develop quality products related to the online training delivery system. Draft resource documents were written and compiled for each of the nine training modules. These were fact heavy, detail-oriented, and focused on mobilizing organizations and communities to support military service members and their families. From those resource documents, we developed each of the nine associated modules. Included within each module is: slide text, narration of the training content, examples from the field, interactive activities, quiz questions, graphic ideas, and additional visual aides to support slide text. Additionally, to ensure the highest quality and clearest delivery of our message, each resource document and module underwent several reviews by team members and content testers (i.e., those not familiar with the content). In addition, drafts of supplemental documents were also developed to accompany each module. These were created to provide in-depth information on certain items discussed in modules. There are documents that explain how to use assessment tools and others that share information and tips related to effectively using methods such as focus groups, interviews, surveys, and more. Slide templates have also been developed using DOD specified colors and fonts. Drafts of all nine resource documents, modules and supplemental documents are complete. Element 2: Assets and needs oriented online tool The Individual and Community Readiness Inventory (ICRI) was adapted from the Support and Resilience Inventory to be an evidence-informed online assessment tool for Active Duty, National Guard and Reserve Component personnel and their families. Efforts were made to align the ICRI with the Community Capacity Building Online Training program. To this end, the UGA/UNC team worked closely with our partners at DoD and USDA to incorporate their requirements and priorities within the tool. An individual and group report template has been developed to assist in reporting of data, and a worksheet template has been designed to assist users with action strategies. The ICRI tool has been vetted by each respective University’s Institutional Review Board, has undergone external review by a content expert, and is undergoing final review prior to publication.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2012
Citation:
Arnold, A. L., Swick, D., Mancini, J. A., & Bowen, G. L. (2012, November). Promoting community capacity building in support of military members, veterans, and their families: Development and evaluation of an online training program. In G. L. Bowen, J. A. Mancini, & J. A. Martin (Co-chairs), Community capacity building and health in the US military. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, Phoenix, AZ.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2012
Citation:
Mancini, J. A., Arnold, A. L., Martin, J. A., & Bowen, G. L. (2012, November). The theory of community action and change: Implications for health promotion in the US military. In G. L. Bowen, J. A. Mancini, & J. A. Martin (Co-chairs), Community capacity building and health in the US military. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, Phoenix, AZ.
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