This toolkit should be used to plan and implement an HPV campaign that is unique to your institution and student body. It is organized by the five major steps you should follow as you plan and implement your own campaign.

Step 1: Gather Your Team

Gather partners to create your team. Who would be vital and good team members? (e.g. Greek life members, communications team, student health and wellness, nursing program contacts, resident life, etc.) Make sure to engage the administration and your students.

Step 2: Create a Plan

Using the toolkit to guide your plan, lay out exactly what steps you will take to increase HPV vaccination coverage among your students. There are many ideas, and we know not all of them are feasible for your campus. Pick the strategies that work for your institution, and execute them well.

Step 3: Assign Tasks

Once you have a team and have created a plan, divide the plan into tasks for each person or group. Set deadlines for people to stick to. Check-in regularly with the team to ensure accountability.

Step 4: Implement and Monitor

Launch your campaign! Monitor how things are going as your team makes progress. If something isn’t working, change it. Individualizing your plan to your campus will produce the best results.

Step 5: Increase Vaccination Coverage on Campus!

Remember, the overall goals of this campaign are to increase education among students, promote the HPV vaccine, and increase uptake of the vaccine among students, including timely receipt of doses 2 and 3 of the vaccine. Focus on these outcomes!

Using a Timeline

Before diving into the five steps, it can be helpful to think about them along a timeline. While your campus structure and specific campaign goals will largely impact the length of these time periods, see the sample 12-month timeline below as a place to get started.

We have provided two documents that will be valuable to you as you go through this toolkit. We advise that you fill them out now! 

•  The “Readiness Assessment Form” will help you evaluate your campus’ capabilities for doing an HPV vaccination campaign and what scope or activities are most appropriate for your campus (See Resources).
•  The “Campaign Planning Worksheet” should be used to take notes and fill out as you proceed through the toolkit.  It takes you through each step outlined above (See Resources).