Health Promotion Planning & Evaluation

Select one of the above stories to use as the basis for this assignment.

BHC Del Norte County and Adjacent Tribal Lands. (2012, July 3).

The sunset high student organizing committee: A youth leadership success story.

Sunset Students Local Organizing Committee Action Meeting to Improve School Lunches - May 15, 2012 [Youtube Video].

For this assignment, you will map the community's needs and assets, determine how they proceeded through the community organizing process, and consider how you could work with the community to continue the momentum to make change.

You may choose to do this assignment as a written paper or as a screencast presentation. In either a five page written paper

Analyze the needs and assets of the community. You are encouraged to locate additional resources that describe the community to help you fully "paint a picture" of it.

Create a community needs map and a community assets map (two separate maps).

Use this week's readings and the textbook (specifically, Figures 9.3 and 9.4 in the textbook and the McKnight & Kretzmann to help guide you.

Interpret the community needs map and community assets map.

Questions to consider: What is included on each map and why did you include it?

What particular strengths and challenges does the community have?

What appears to be the most critical health issues the community is facing?

Which strengths could be leveraged to work on critical health issues?

Compare and contrast the community's mobilization efforts to Figure 9.2 in your course text, which provides a summary of the steps involved in community organizing and building. Questions to consider:

What did the community's mobilization efforts entail?

What did the community do (or perhaps not do) in relation to each step?

Based on the community's work so far and the maps you created, assess how your work with the community could proceed.

Questions to consider:

What health issues could most effectively be addressed?

How could the community apply the needs and assets maps? ?Where should the community go from here?

How should you (in your role as a representative from the health department) be involved in the community's future mobilization efforts? The Community Mobilization assignment

Must be either a five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) paper

Must include the actual needs map and assets map diagrams.

Must include a separate title page/slide with the following:

Title of paper/presentation Student's name Course name and number Instructor's name Date submitted

Must include a clear and succinct introduction introducing the topic and a conclusion that summarizes the main points of the paper/presentation.

Must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.

Must include a separate reference page/slide that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center

Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Text:McKenzie, J. F., Neiger, B. L., & Thackeray, R. (2012). Planning, implementing, & evaluating health promotion programs: A primer (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Benjamin Cummings.