Hello everyone and welcome back. In our past section we talked a little bit about prevention. In this section we are going to talk specifically about what we call the Idaho Logic Model. Let's begin by going to slide two.

As we can see here the Idaho Logic Model is basically a step-by-step process to develop a prevention program. The focus here of course is on Idaho. However, the model we are going to describe here can be used for anything.

There are a wide variety of steps and these steps in general are shown in slide three. So let's talk about these in a little bit of detail.

The first thing one must do in the Idaho Logic Model, as we see in slide four, is to identify the goals that you want to accomplish. That is, what are the specific things you are trying to accomplish for whatever prevention program you are trying to do? You need to ask yourself some questions. Is it going to be a major change in the community? Or, is it just changing the behavior of a particular class? Or is it something else? Goals, in general, are on a very large scale. As a consequence they need to be broad when one is trying to use the model.

Now once we have identified the goals we then move to the next step. This is shown in slide five. That is, we need to identify the target groups that we are going to try to change. Now there can be a wide variety of different target groups. So one needs to very specifically identify what groups you are going to be looking at and what the impact on those targets is going to be. However you may also need to identify other groups that may be impacted by changing the behavior of the primary target group. These may include merchants, teachers, ministers, counselors, etc. The key is to look at the groups you are going to be working with and what the impact of your intervention may be on the particular target group and any other groups as well.

Now, once you have identified a particular target group then you have to select the type of intervention you will like to be working with. In this case the intervention may be very broad spectrum or what we call Universal. That is, it is targeting everyone in some particular population. Again, that population can include a community or it even could include a nation.
An alternative to a Universal type of selection of an intervention is targeting specific selective groups. Here what you are doing is focusing on one particular target group, say, youth, or youth on football teams, or whatever it may be. However, your intervention can impact both Universal types of groups and Selective types of groups as well.

Once you have done that you then move on the next section which are basically strategies. As we can see in slide seven, strategies are specifically designed to tell you specifically what you will be doing. The first thing you will be doing is targeting members of your group with specific tasks and then list them out and check them off when they are accomplished. You also need to identify what kind of data you are going to collect. Are you going to do surveys, archival data, are you going to be looking at behaviors, etc. So, whatever strategy you are going to be using the process needs to be step-by-step and the process needs to be written down so you can go back to identify and determine if you have been successful.

The next step is shown in slide eight. The creation of "if something happens then something else happens." It should be done for each individual researcher that is working on the project. And it should be done for the project as a whole. It should also be done for each target group. The key is to identify what is going to happen and then to identify what the particular results are going to be of that particular intervention.

Once the if/then statements are done then you want to look at short-term outcomes. As we can see in slide nine the short-term outcomes should basically be the identification of what you expect to see from a logical standpoint. You then conduct the data analysis to see if your intervention actually had an effect. What do you expect to happen? Did it happen? Etc.

Once that is completed you also need to look at the long-term impacts. That is, you need to identify what will happen if your project succeeds. For example, you may get more federal grant money. However, what you also need to do is what might happen if your project fails. Your intervention can have a huge impact especially if your project fails. This can cause all sorts of negative community relations, problems with other agencies, etc.

So in general, the Idaho Logic Model provides you with very simple ways to analyze a problem. The model can then be applied to any kind of problem including working with school, working on a job trying to resolve some issue, etc.

Well that concludes this section. In our next section we are going to talk a little bit about aspects of prevention programs. Until then we hope you are enjoying your day and we look forward to talking with you soon.

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