Table 1.

Overview of SEED Method Process for Community Action Planning

Phase I: Identify Strategies
Identify and engage (12 - 20 weeks)	Research team: Meets weekly or bi-weekly, gathers and reviews data on the target population and health issue, completes the SEED stakeholder identification and recruitment matrices, recruits TG participants, holds first TG meetings. Topic groups: First TG meeting to get introduced to the project.
Consult (4-6 weeks)	Research team: Facilitates TG meetings, conducts focus groups and interviews and summarizes results. Topic groups: Each TG meets twice to plan focus groups and interviews and to review results. SCAN participants: Participate in focus groups and interviews (or other consultative methods).
Conceptualize (2 weeks)	Research team: Facilitates TG meetings, reviews conceptual models. Topic groups: Meet twice to participate in conceptual model training and then to create conceptual models.
Generate strategies (1-2 weeks)	Research team: Facilitates TG meetings. Topic groups: Each TG meets to review the full set of models and participates in a facilitated exercise to generate strategies.
Prioritize strategies (1-2 weeks)	Research team: Facilitates TG meetings. Topic groups: Each TG meets to prioritize strategies.
Phase 2: Action Planning
Select strategies (2-4 weeks)	Research team: Researches each prioritized strategy, prepares a presentation for community stakeholders, and holds a community stakeholder meeting to select final strategies. Topic groups: Although TG work is finished, TG participants can attend the community stakeholder meeting and stay involved through the action planning phase.
Form work groups (2-4 weeks)	Research team: Holds second community stakeholder meeting to review final strategies, form work groups, and select work group chairs. Work groups: Each WG develops a meeting schedule and a logic model.
Implement work plans (10 months)	Research team: Research team liaisons attend WG meetings, provide support and documentation, and report back to the research team. The team tracks progress, provides technical support, and holds a semi-annual meeting that brings all WG participants and other community stakeholders together to review progress and address challenges. Work groups: Meet regularly, create a work plan and timeline, and implement work plan steps. Chairs meet with research team quarterly.
Wrap up/next steps (4 weeks)	Research team: Holds a meeting that brings all WG participants and other community stakeholders together to review progress, celebrate achievements, and plan for next steps. Work groups: Develop a sustainability plan (as needed).

Note: TG = Topic groups, WG = work groups