Assessment: Develop a new health promotion proposal

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program is now successfully established at several local schools.

The community health service now wishes to expand the program into the broader community, and is looking to apply for a VicHealth Social Innovation for Health Equity program grant. As the Health Promotion Officer, you are tasked with:

1. Outline an expansion of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program to reach a different group in the community. Your proposed program should also address health equity issues; and

2. Prepare a draft grant proposal in which you outline the intervention background, aims, proposal description, evaluation frameworks, staffing for project delivery, and budget.

Assessment Instructions -

Total of 2000 words (excluding in-text and end references and the 437 words of the 'VicHealth' grant template itself).

1. Title

This will be the title of the new project for which you are applying for funds.

2. Lay summary/abstract (≈200 words)

Complete this last. It will be one paragraph summarising in plain English as to the background to the application, the methods, and the significance of the new project.

3. Background (Stephanie Alexander Garden Project; inequities, gaps in knowledge)

a. Explain what the Stephanie Alexander Garden Project (SAGP) is, what it aims to do and how it operates. Describe who the target groups are in the current SAGP. Then, identify inequities in the SAGP. These are likely to be inadvertent. For example, the SAGP with good reason targets school age children therefore excluding the elderly who may be at risk of social, isolation and poor nutrition. The innovation to the SAKP that you may want to propose could be an allotment project directed at the elderly.

4. Needs assessment description (using photovoice).

Take real photos of a community garden or use images from the internet.

Use the SHOWeD questions as part of the methodology.

"SHOWeD": What do you See here? What is really Happening? - How does this relate to Our lives? - Why does this problem or strength exist? - What can we Do about it? Invent the answers to support your application.

5. Aim(s)

Describe the aims of the new project for which you are seeking funding. You may want to identify the primary aim and secondary aims.

6. Objectives/hypotheses

The objective is the goal of project that is measurable and this will be used to determine the success of the project. How will you know if you have succeeded?

7. Methodology:

a. Description of Photovoice as a qualitative methodology;

b. Health behaviour model (e.g., social innovation model; socio-ecological model)

c. Data collection methods.

8. Inputs (community engagement, other stakeholder engagement) - needs assessment.

What are the inputs needed for your new project? This is where you talk about community engagement. Defining your target group, invite key participants in target such as the person responsible for the land, community leaders, activity co-ordinators.

Describe and explain how you will consult, plan, and involve them in the project.

9. Intervention description (activities, key outputs)

10. Outcomes (short, medium, long term)

11. Implementation evaluation (e.g., this may include images as part of Photovoice)

12. How the intervention will reduce inequity at a socioeconomic, political, or cultural context level (e.g., governance, policy and/or social norms and values)

13. Staffing (title, employment fraction, responsibilities, justification)

14. Budget (item, unit cost, total cost)

15. Timelines (e.g., Gantt chart)

16. References