LS 103 MIDTERM QUIZ 1

• Community Assessment


  Collaborative partnership gathers information on strengths, concerns, and conditions of children, families, and the community
• Information elicited by many techniques


  • Interviews
  • Focus groups
  • Demographic data
• Community assessments focus on


  • Local assets
  • Resources
  • Gaps
  • Barriers
  • Emerging needs
• Partners participating in a community assessment


  • Strategic Planners
  • Program Staff
  • Administrators
  • Teachers
  • Parents
  • Other Community Members
• Identifying and Appraising the Information

  1. Clearly understand the context - issue

  2. Identify strengths or underutilized resources that can be developed

  3. Determine the resources that could contribute

  4. Design effective, collaborative strategies

  5. Determine the role of members in designing and implementing the strategies
• Process of Conducting a Community Assessment

  1. Scanning the community

  2. Developing a primary focus

  3. Identifying community assets

  4. Analyzing the information obtained
• Health Project Planning


  1. Requires a critical analysis of the problem

  2. Problem analysis is important for developing a goal and objectives

  3. Strategies

  4. Resources

  5. Decision making: managed, sustained and evaluated
• Major Steps in Planning, Sustaining and Evaluating a Health Promotion Project

  1. Identify the issues or health problems in the community

  2. Prioritize the issues or health problems

  3. Identify risk factors and set the goal for the project

  4. Determine contributing factors and state objectives for the project

  5. Determine what strategies will be

  6. Develop the action plan for the project

  7. Sustain the project

  8. Evaluate the project
• Needs Assessment


  Prioritize and allocate resources
• Baseline Data


  Information gathered during the needs assessment
• Baseline data


  Compared to Evaluation data to determine Project Outcome
• Risk Factors


  Directly cause the problem, can be changing, behavioral, societal, or environmental
• Examples of Risk Factors

  • Eating high fat food (behavioral)
  • Family history of heart disease (biological)
• Modifiable Risk Factors


  Can be changed, e.g. food choices
• Non-modifiable Risk Factors


  Cannot be changed, e.g. genetics
• Example of Risk Factor for Diarrhea

  • Direct exposure to bacteria and germs (environmental)
• Contributing Factors


  Reinforce the risk factors, can be behavioral, societal, environmental, individual, financial, political, or educational
• Examples of Contributing Factors

  • Lack of knowledge about low fat diets (educational)
  • High cost of low-fat foods in the store (financial)
  • Poor housing condition (environmental)
  • Lack of home hygiene (behavioral)
• Goal


  Making changes to the risk factors, planned, longer term outcome of the project, inspires, motivates and encourages team cooperation
• Objectives


  What changes the project will make to the contributing factors, what has to change in the short term to get closer to achieving the project goal
• Developing the Project Goal and Objectives


  • Clear and specific
  • Let people know what they can expect to happen
  • Basis for planning the evaluation of the project
• Strategies


  Ways to apply to make changes and achieve the objectives
• Developing the Action Plan

  1. Next step after strategy development

  2. Includes all the specific activities, what needs to be done to implement, when they will be completed, how they will be evaluated

  3. More details for strategies = easier to identify the work to be done

  4. Detailed documentation = maintaining accountability within the team, between the team, community, and funding agency
• Sustaining the Project


  Planning for sustainability, ways to keep the project, needs to be considered from the initial planning stages
• Evaluating the Project


  Determining what is happening in the project, making a judgment about its value, and assessing the long-term effect