American Cancer Society

Active For LifeSM

Program Director Training

What is Active For Life?• Flexible, 10-week team-based worksite physical activity

program• Team-based approach, with ability to set individual goals • Receive a point for each minute of physical activity –

counts toward individual and team goals• Participants, Team Captains, and Directors provide

encouragement to succeed• Based on the Stages of Change Theory and the American

Cancer Society (ACS) Guidelines for Physical Activity

AFL Structure with a Program Director

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Program Director Role

• Manages a single AFL campaign• May be the highest role in the AFL

campaign if Executive Director level is not needed

• Works closely with Executive Director if applicable

Invites Team Captains and Manages Teams

Program Director Invitation Receive the email invitation to serve as the

Program Director

Click on the Link or copy the link in its entirety and paste it in your browser, press return/enter

Complete the Invitation Process Click “Accept

Invitation”

If you DO NOT have an ACS Account, choose “REGISTER”

Accept terms of creating an ACS Account

Establish Campaign Complete each field of the form and save

(explanation of each field is on the following two slides)

Campaign Management Fields Name the campaign Set the campaign start date -(date of the 10 week

campaign) The Campaign Finish date will populate 10 weeks from the Campaign Start date

Post-Campaign Survey Deadline -determines how long you want to allow participants to complete the post-program survey

Program Director- select a user to be a Program Director or click Invite PD to invite a Program Director

Enhanced Campaign-If “yes” participants will be able to add a food tracker, weight tracker and/or BMI calculator to their personal dashboard. These tools are optional, confidential, not a part of the AFL reporting system and are simply provided as additional resources for individuals to use during their AFL campaign.

Campaign Management Fields Cont. Enable News- use 10 weekly newsletters as default news

to display as weekly campaign news for participants to see

Enable Motivational Emails- If “Yes” users will receive automatic email messages supporting them to meet their goal or congratulate them for exceeding their goal. Individual users can choose to stop receiving these automatic emails by updating their profile.

Campaign Supports Bonus Points- Bonus points are determined by the company and are an optional feature to the AFL program. Bonus points are reported in AFL campaign reports. You or the Program Directors and/or Team Captains will need to communicate to participants what counts as Bonus Points in your campaign(s).

Campaign Tools Program Director Abilities

Step by step instructions are available in the Help section in the AFL site

Some examples of abilities are below: Invite Team Captains Invite Participants Email Team Participants Move participants Edit Goals Change Team Captains and make Co-Captains Manage Teams Add and Manage Offline Users Manage Campaign News Select additional Survey Questions

Campaign TipsProgram Director Resources

Campaign Tips has tips and resources needed to learn about AFL and implement successful campaigns

Some tips include: AFL PD Training Manual AFL Suggested Campaign Timeline Access to our Print On Demand Site Access to ACS Podcasts series

My Reports Clicking on the report title will display the

corresponding report for your campaign. As PD, you will see reports for the whole

campaign or by team or by participant Team Captains have reports only for their

team

My Dashboard

A Program Director must either be a Team Captain or a Participant on a team to have a dashboard, this is where activity points are tracked, campaign news displays, and where optional nutrition and weight tools will display.

Help Features The Help Button is role specific and has step by

step instructions on how to do common PD tasks. Each role in AFL has access to the Help button.

Future Sign Ins Each time you are ready to sign in to Active

For Life, go to www.activeforlife.org Click “Sign In” to access Active For Life Do not attempt to sign in with your

invitation link

Program Director Check List Complete Campaign Management fields Send communication to staff about Active For

Life and to be on the look out for email invitations or to use the Join A Team button on the home page

Send Team Captain invitation emails Review optional survey questions and select

which ones you want to display for your participants

Prepare your optional campaign news to enter in the site each week

Join a team!

Need More Help?Contact your ACS Relationship

Manager or activeforlife@cancer.org