National Crime Prevention Council's School Safety and Security

Step 4: Develop an Action Plan
Your Be Safe and Sound action team should reconvene after the school safety and
security forum. The solutions identified by the forum will serve as the basis for
the action plan. But before you start working on the action plan, take a moment
to celebrate the team's accomplishments thus far!
Developing the Plan
The action plan should identify safety and security
improvements you intend to pursue and how
you'll pursue them. If the forum had many brainstorming
groups, the action team may find itself
with a large amount of information to consider.
Start by looking at the problems prioritized by
each group. Problems that ranked high in importance,
or which multiple groups selected, should
be considered priority problems. Next, look at the
prioritized barriers and
solution statements that
were developed and
narrow the list to a
manageable size. You
may find that groups
came up with similar
solutions that can be
combined.
If the forum has recommended
solutions
that are not feasible, the
action team will need to
make a few judgment
calls. Websites listed in
Resources will serve as
starting points for additional
research your
team needs.
tial solutions, it's time to
build the action plan.
See sidebar for an example
of each piece of the
plan. First, the action
plan should state the
Once the action team
has identified the high
priority problems and
narrowed down potenoverall
goal, or mission, that all objectives and activities
will support. Objectives describe the purposes
of the activities in the plan. Each activity represents
a solution your action team has decided to pursue.
To set the plan in motion, establish action steps for
each activity, identifying specific people, tasks, deadlines,
and anticipated outcomes. As a courtesy, send
copies of the completed action plan to forum participants.
See Appendix F for an action planning chart
and Appendix G for an example of an action plan.