1. American Cancer Society
Active For LifeSM
Program Director Training

2. 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

3. AFL Structure with a Program Director

4. 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

5. Program Director Invitation
Receive the 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

6. Complete the Invitation Process
If you DO NOT have an ACS Account, choose “REGISTER”
Click “Accept Invitation”
Accept terms of creating an ACS Account

7. (explanation of each field is on the following two slides)
Establish Campaign
Complete each field of the form and save
(explanation of each field is on the following two slides)
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
Pos-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.
Enable News- use 10 weekly newsletters as default news to display as weekly campaign news for participants to see
Enable Motivational s- If “Yes” users will receive automatic messages supporting them to meet their goal or congratulate them for exceeding their goal. Individual users can choose to stop receiving these automatic s 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).

8. 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.

9. 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 s- If “Yes” users will receive automatic messages supporting them to meet their goal or congratulate them for exceeding their goal. Individual users can choose to stop receiving these automatic s 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).

10. 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
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

11. Campaign Tips Program 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

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. Future Sign Ins
Each time you are ready to sign in to Active For Life, go to
Click “Sign In” to access Active For Life
Do not attempt to sign in with your invitation link

16. Program Director Check List
Complete Campaign Management fields
Send communication to staff about Active For Life and to be on the look out for invitations or to use the Join A Team button on the home page
Send Team Captain invitation s
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!

17. Need More Help? Contact your ACS Relationship Manager or activeforlife@cancer.org