Your approach section will need to provide detailed information about your exact plans, steps, and strategies for each stage of your program and how you’ll implement them. Write your approach section using the template below. You don’t have to describe your plans in detail; a mere outline would be sufficient. Give a brief summary of your overall plan (1 brief paragraph) and then 2-3 brief paragraphs for aim 1 and 2-3 brief paragraphs for aim 2 using the template below:

Approach template

1. Provide a summary of your overall plan. Your reader should be able to understand in a few short sentences what your plan is. Your plan should be directly connected to your specific aims.
2. Aim 1. Provide the major and minor steps of your plan. Be sure to sufficiently break apart complex steps so your reader can understand how you will meet your objectives for this aim (e.g., to develop a program).
3. Describe “how” you will complete the steps. For example, simply stating “training faculty” as one of your steps is not sufficient (this is a major step that needs to be broken down). How will you train faculty?  Do you have training materials?  Will you use workshops?  
4. Explain “why” you will complete the steps. In addition to explaining the step-by-step process of how you will train faculty, your project plan should offer a narrative of why you will complete a step in a certain way. Why is training faculty related to your overall objectives?  Why will you use workshops but not some other method of training?
5. Report any deliverables for each major step. For instance, a number of faculty trained, a program manual, 30 clients going through the program and completing program assessment, etc.