Designing Culturally Appropriate Wellness Programs

For this discussion:

Refer to Chapter 7 of your Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion text and review the case study on page 189.

WHICH IS:

The rate of teen pregnancy is rising in a culturally diverse community in which an estimated 25 percent of the population are immigrants. In addition, the community is nearly 50 percent Latino and has a high number of at-risk youth. Its high school graduation rate is 73 percent, well below the state average of 82 percent. Statewide data estimate that 34 percent of the population 16 years and older in this community lack basic prose literacy skills.

1.Define the steps required to develop a needs assessment of the problem in this community, including primary and secondary data.

2.Who are the collaborative partners that need to be included in coalition to address the teen pregnancy problem?

3.What steps are needed to develop a program, implementation, and evaluation plan?

4.Describe the cultural considerations that must be addressed in the program plan, implementation, and evaluation design.

Address the following questions:

What steps are required to develop a needs assessment of the problem in this community, including primary and secondary data?

Who are the collaborative partners that need to be included in a coalition to address the teen pregnancy problem?

What steps are needed to develop a program, implementation, and evaluation plan?

What cultural considerations must be addressed in the program plan, implementation, and evaluation design?

Your initial posting should be at least 150 words, and you must reference the work of another writer (either as a quotation, paraphrase, or summary) to provide support for your ideas. The source can be the course text, another relevant book, any assigned reading, . When you incorporate the other writer's ideas in your work, use APA citation style to give credit to that writer. Remember that an APA citation includes both the in-text citation (the author's last name and the year of publication) and the full reference for the source.