Getting to Outcomes: Operations Guides for Air National Guard Community Action Teams

Getting To Outcomes (GTO) is a user-oriented ten-step process for comprehensive planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs and community initiatives. It is designed to help organizations run programs well and get desired outcomes. It was developed to bridge the gap between the research evidence of effectiveness, established by program developers, and the often less-effective implementation of the same programs outside a research setting. The GTO Operations Guide for U.S. Air Force Community Action Teams and four companion content area modules (CAMs) are designed for use by U.S. Air Force Community Action Teams (CATs) to aid each wing in developing its 20192020 Community Action Plan (CAP) for Integrated Resilience and Violence Prevention, as directed in Air Force Instruction (AFI) 90-5001 (and to aid the development of CAPs in future years). The guide and the CAMs contain tools that will help each wings Community Support Coordinators, Air Force Reserve Command Community Action Team Chairs, Violence Prevention Integrators, CATs, and the Community Support Program Managers at the major command (MAJCOM) level complete each GTO step. GTO is part of an Air Force initiative to increase the quality and effectiveness of CAPs while enabling each wing to address its unique needs. This guide, the Operations Guide for Air National Guard Community Action Teams, is a streamlined version adapted from the Air Force guide to meet the unique needs of the Air National Guard (ANG). It provides guidance on how to plan, implement, and evaluate various types of programs, policies, practices, and processeswhat we call P4.