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University of Maine Cooperative
Extension
COUNTY
OFFICES |
PROGRAMS | RESOURCES
| PUBLICATIONS | NEWS
AND EVENTS | UMAINE
EXTENSION HOME | UMAINE
| April 2003 |
|
Plan of Work Task Force
first convenes. A Plan of Work Web site and message board are created. POWTF minutes are posted online. |
| May 2003 |
|
Staff receive the first draft of the Task Force's
timeline and are asked for input. Task Force creates an online Needs Assessment Resources database. |
| June 2003 |
|
PowerPoint presentations
are developed by the Task Force for communicating the POW process to
staff and county executive boards. Somerset and Aroostook counties review a preliminary needs assessment survey and provide feedback. |
| July 2003 |
| Task Force connects with Center for Research and Evaluation to develop an effective, inclusive statewide needs assessment process. |
| September 2003 |
| CSREES proposes a two-year extension to the current POW. |
| November 2003 |
|
Task Force presents the status of the POW process via a
Needs Assessment Process Visual Model
and timeline to Program Leadership
Teams at the PLT bi-annual meeting, generating good discussion, but
no specific suggestions for changes. UMCE staff and EC Presidents are asked to submit Issue Topic Areas. |
| December 2003 |
|
Staff asks for and is given more time (until
January 23, 2004) to submit Issue Areas. Letters are sent to Deans and Department Chairs, updating them on UMCE's needs assessment process and requesting their input on Issue Areas. |
| February 2004 |
| Task Force sorts 460 issue area suggestions received from 49 UMCE staff, 7 CEC boards and the homemakers group. |
| March 2004 |
| All Organizational Meeting: Issue areas are posted so staff can add sub-issues, make comments and suggestions. The Task Force presents a short overview of the POW and needs assessment process; information about Issue Area Papers; information about upcoming "Shaping Our Future" discussion groups; and a visioning activity to elicit additional thinking about potential future issue areas. |
| April 2004 |
|
Task Force presents an update at the County Executive
Committee Presidents’ meeting. A message calling for authors to write Issue Papers is sent to staff. Instructions for writing Issue Papers are posted on the Web site. |
| May - August 2004 |
| Authors write 18 Issue Area Papers. |
| June - October 2004 |
|
County staff prepare for
"Shaping Our Future"
public planning discussion sessions. Facilitators and note
takers receive formal training,
templates, a
help manual, and a sample press release. Issue Area Papers are completed, bound and distributed to facilitator trainees. Information about "Shaping Our Future," Issue Area Papers and additional resources is posted to the Web site for the general public. |
| October - December 2004 |
|
County staff and Maine citizens come
together for
"Shaping Our Future"
discussion sessions. Staff send completed county templates to the Task Force. Task Force meets with Program Leadership Teams to discuss how they might conduct focus groups within their program areas. A County Sessions Results Database is created. County Template of Discussion Highlights are posted to the Web. Other group discussion results are posted to the Web. New England Planning and Reporting Collaboration meets to begin designing a multi-state (ME, MA, VT, NH) POW reporting system. CSREES identifies objectives for each of 5 federal goals that may identify how we will do our work. |
| January - April 2005 |
|
"Determining
County Template Discussion Highlights" document is created and
shared with UMCE staff. After careful review of the information provided by county templates, issue areas, issue papers, and CSREES goals, the Task Force reaches consensus on Five Maine Goals and aligns issue areas with the goals. The goals are shared with staff, who provide feedback. In response, goals are tweaked by the Task Force. |
| May - June 2005 |
| “Building Our Next Plan of Work: POW Logic Model Planning Sessions”: Programming staff come together in facilitated Logic Model working sessions to identify action and learning outcomes relating to work they intend to do that will address one or more of our 5 state goals. The outcomes that are identified at these meetings will help build the next section of the Logic Model (outputs), and be available to all staff to use in creating their personal POW later in the year. |
| July - August 2005 |
| Program Administrators compile the Logic Model Planning Session outcomes and submit them to the Task Force. The Task Force reviews the outcomes and sends them to staff for comment. |
| August - October 2005 |
| UMCE programming staff gather in self-determined groups and teams to define their intention to undertake collective activities to achieve previously identified learning, action, and condition change outcomes. Groups define their collective activities, intended audiences, and collaborators. Groups create an evaluation plan for appropriate activities that will allow for capture of broad outcomes. |
| November - December 2005 through January 2006 |
| Drawing upon the programming intentions of groups and teams as defined in the previous step, and using the inventories of indicators from the earlier meetings, programming staff build a logic model (or models) for each type of work they do. Staff submit plans to their Program Administrator for approval. |
| February - March 2006 |
|
Plan of Work Task Force consolidates all information and submits the final state Plan of Work! |
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