Post on Community Intervention & Program Evaluation

Post on Community Intervention & Program Evaluation

Imagine you are a public health specialist and have recently been hired by the local school system. After an initial assessment within this school system, it has been shown that there has been a significant increase in reports of bullying (both physical and cyber) in grades 7 through 12. There appears to be no real differences in reported cases across gender or ethnicity, but students in grades 7 and 9 combined make up 50% of all cases.

Using the information above, create an initial post in which you address the benefits of applying a logic model. Be sure to analyze the potential impact the community intervention could have, to include an example of a logic model that you think would be appropriate for this situation, and to describe a potential evidence-based solution for this situation.

One page document outlining the flow of the logic model. APA format, times new roman. one reference.

Important information for writing discussion questions and participation

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I strongly encourage that you do not wait until the very last minute to complete your assignments. Your assignments in weeks 4 and 5 require early planning as you would need to present a teaching plan and interview a community health provider. I advise you look at the requirements for these assignments at the beginning of the course and plan accordingly. I have posted the YouTube link that explains all the class assignments in detail. It is required that you watch this 32-minute video as the assignments from week 3 through 5 require that you follow the instructions to the letter to succeed. Failure to complete these assignments according to instructions might lead to a zero. After watching the video, please schedule a one-on-one with me to discuss your topic for your project by the second week of class. Use this link to schedule a 15-minute session. Please, call me at the time of your appointment on my number. Please note that I will NOT call you.

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Plagiarism is highly prohibited. Please ensure you are citing your sources correctly using APA 7th edition. All assignments including discussion posts should be formatted in APA with the appropriate spacing, font, margin, and indents. Any papers not well formatted would be returned back to you, hence, I advise you review APA formatting style. I have attached a sample paper in APA format and will also post sample discussion responses in subsequent announcements.

Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

I understand this is a lot of information to cover in 5 weeks, however, the Bible says in Philippians 4:13 that we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. Even in times like this, we are encouraged by God’s word that we have that ability in us to succeed with His strength. I pray that each and every one of you receives strength for this course and life generally as we navigate through this pandemic that is shaking our world today. Relax and enjoy the course!

Hi Class,

Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.

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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
• Here are some helpful links
• The is a great resource

As indicated by some of the studies reviewed by Merzel and D’Afflitti, the term community-based often refers to community as the setting for interventions. As setting, the community is primarily defined geographically and is the location in which interventions are implemented. Such interventions may be citywide, using mass media or other approaches, or may take place within community

institutions, such as neighborhoods, schools, churches, work sites, voluntary agencies, or other organizations. Various levels of intervention may be employed, including educational or other strategies that involve individuals, families, social networks, organizations, and public policy. These community-based interventions may also engage community input through advisory committees or community coalitions that assist in tailoring interventions to specific target groups or to adapt programs to community characteristics. However, the focus of these community-based projects is primarily on changing individuals’ behaviors as a method for reducing the population’s risk of disease. As a result, the target of change may be populations, but population change is defined as the aggregate of individual changes.

The term community-based may also have a very different meaning, that of the community serving as the target of change. The community as target refers to the goal of creating healthy community environments through broad systemic changes in public policy and community-wide institutions and services. In this model, health status characteristics of the community are the targets of interventions, and community changes, particularly changes thought to be related to health, are the desired outcomes. Several significant public health initiatives have adopted this model. For example, community indicators projects use data as a catalytic tool to go beyond using individual behaviors as primary outcomes.3 Indicators can range from the number of days exceeding Environmental Protection Agency standards for air quality to the amount of park and recreation facility space per capita to the proportion of residents living below federal poverty levels.4 Strategies are tied to selected indicators, and success is defined as improvement in the indicators over time.

A third model of “community-based” is community as resource. This model is commonly applied in community-based health promotion because of the widely endorsed belief that a high degree of community ownership and participation is essential for sustained success in population-level health outcomes. These programs are aimed at marshaling a community’s internal resources or assets, often across community sectors, to strategically focus their attention on a selected set of priority health-related strategies. Whether a categorical health issue is predetermined or whether the community selects, perhaps within certain parameters, its own priorities, these kinds of interventions involve external resources and some degree of actors external to the community that aim to achieve health outcomes by working through a wide array of community institutions and resources. Examples of major public health initiatives that have applied this model include “healthy cities” initiatives within several states,5 the National Healthy Start program,6 and the federal Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Community Partnership program.7