Work Plans and Timelines. The work plan must include a description of the planning, start-up, implementation, closeout, and evaluation activities that will be conducted, along with a timeline and proposed milestones, outcomes, and metrics. Activities must include but are not limited to: • Partnerships: o Establishing or finalizing necessary partnerships, MOUs, and sub-award agreements, including data sharing agreements and contracts and financial agreements for service delivery; and o Meeting and engaging in strategic planning with partners identified in the application and other interested stakeholders to ensure service coordination and readiness for program implementation. • Partnership with SSA: o Clearly identify the role(s) you are proposing that SSA have, including any data you need from SSA, policy consultations with subject matter experts, and time commitments. (See Section VI.B.ii.) • Service components and planning logistics: o Finalizing a plan for communication, outreach, recruitment, and enrollment of the target population; and o Establishing a process for any service or supports for participants. • Personnel and training: o Developing training program and materials for service providers using evidence-based strategies and best practices to be used in the proposed model (identified in the previous section); and o Hiring and training of other necessary personnel. • Implementation plan: o Proposed milestones, interim outputs, and outcome goals; o Proposed metrics for measuring process and program outputs and outcomes;
Work Plans and Timelines. The work plan must include a description of the planning, start- up, implementation, closeout, and evaluation activities that will be conducted, along with a timeline and proposed milestones, outcomes, and metrics. Activities must include, but are not limited to: • Partnerships: − Establishing or finalizing necessary partnerships, Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), and sub-award agreements, including data sharing agreements and contracts and financial agreements for service delivery; and − Meeting and engaging in strategic planning with partners identified in the application and other interested stakeholders to ensure service coordination and readiness for program implementation. • Partnership with SSA: − Clearly identify the role(s) you are proposing that SSA have, including any data and data analyses you need from SSA, policy consultations with subject matter experts, and time commitments. (See Section VI.B.2) • Service components and planning logistics: − Finalizing a plan for communication, outreach, recruitment, and enrollment of the target population; and − Establishing a process for any service or supports for participants. • Personnel and training: − Developing training program and materials for service providers using evidence-based strategies and best practices to be used in the proposed model (identified in the previous section); and − Hiring and training of other necessary personnel. • Implementation plan: − Proposed milestones, interim outputs, and outcome goals; − Proposed metrics for measuring process and program outputs and outcomes; − A detailed project timeline; − Initial plans for partnering with other key stakeholders; − A proposed data collection plan, which identifies the data collection process and data sources that will be utilized, how the required programmatic data elements will be provided, and how the data will be used for operational purposes; − A description of how any existing partner data systems will be utilized; and − A justification of any proposed incentives to study/intervention participants, both financial and non-financial incentives, which includes a description of why the incentives are necessary to further cooperative agreement-related activities and identifies the incentive value(s) and how they will be distributed and tracked. • List of proposed deliverables, which at minimum must include: − All reporting requirements laid out in Section VI.D; − Project management reports; − Special topic reports; − Final repor...
