The second of three documents of a project designed to help North Carolina counties plan community based status offender programs presents a general planning model. An overview traces five steps of the planning decision process, from determining the importance of status offender needs to the county to making program funding decisions based on evaluation data. Details of the 16 step planning decision model are given in two tracks--for the full task force and for a technical committee. The document concludes with sample worksheets for calculating the value of a program being considered for funding and for listing major variables in the final selection of programs. (CL)