Spring 2020 Courses: 3350-Program Planning

Week of 1/20: Review of Logic Models:

• https://www.cdc.gov/eval/tools/logic_models/index.html
• https://www.thecompassforsbc.org/how‐to‐guides/how‐develop‐logic‐model‐0

Week of 1/27: Review of SMART Goals:

• https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/nc‐smart‐goals‐fact‐sheet.pdf
• https://www.cdc.gov/std/Program/pupestd/Developing%20Program%20Goals%20and%20Objectives.pdf

Week of 2/3: Chapter 19. Choosing and Adapting Community Interventions

Read the following sections

• Section 1. Criteria for Choosing Promising Practices and Community Interventions
• Section 2. Understanding Risk and Protective Factors
• Section 3. Identifying Strategies and Tactics for Reducing Risks
• Section 4. Adapting Community Interventions for Different Cultures and Communities
• Section 5. Ethical Issues in Community Interventions
• Section 6. Promoting the Adoption and Use of Best Practices

Week of 2/10: Chapter 24. Improving Services

Read the following sections:

• Section 1. Overview of Developing and Improving Community Services
• Section 3. Promoting Coordination, Cooperative Agreements, & Collaborative Agreements
• Section 4. Developing Multisector Collaborations
• Section 7. Developing and Increasing Access to Health and Community Services
• Section 8. Establishing a Peer Education Program

Week of 2/17: Chapter 36. Introduction to Evaluation

Read the following sections:

• Section 1. A Framework for Program Evaluation: A Gateway to Tools
• Section 2. Community-based Participatory Research
• Section 3. Understanding Community Leadership, Evaluators, &Funders?
• Section 4. Choosing Evaluators
• Section 5. Developing an Evaluation Plan
• Section 6. Participatory Evaluation

Week of 2/24: Chapter 23. Modifying Access, Barriers, and Opportunities

Read the following sections:

• Section 1. Overview of Tactics for Modifying Access, Barriers, and Opportunities
• Section 4. Extending Opportunities for the Poor
• Section 5. Increasing Access for People with Physical Disabilities
• Section 6. Using Outreach to Increase Access

Week of 3/16: Issel, L. M., & Wells, R. (2017). Health program planning and evaluation. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

• Chapter 5 (Click here for the file)
• You will likely have to view this on your computer as a phone screen may be too small and blurry.  A computer will allow you to zoom in and enlarge the text.

Week of 3/23: Chapter 37. Operations in Evaluating Community Interventions

Read the following sections:

• Section 1. Choosing Questions and Planning the Evaluation
• Section 2. Information Gathering and Synthesis
• Section 3. Data Collection: Designing an Observational System
• Section 4. Selecting an Appropriate Design for the Evaluation
• Section 5. Collecting and Analyzing Data
• Section 6. Gathering and Interpreting Ethnographic Information
• Section 7. Collecting and Using Archival Data

Week of 3/30: Chapter 34. Media Advocacy

Read the following sections:

• Section 1. Working with the Media
• Section 2. Making Friends with the Media
• Section 3. Creating News Stories the Media Wants
• Section 4. Using Paid Advertising
• Section 5. Meeting the Media
• Section 6. Changing the Media's Perspective

Week of 4/27: Chapter 46. Planning for Sustainability

Read the following sections:

• Section 1. Strategies for the Long-Term Sustainability of an Initiative: An Overview
• Section 2. Strategies for Sustaining the Initiative
• Section 3. Promoting Adoption of the Initiative's Mission and Objectives
• Section 4. Attracting Support for Specific Programs
• Section 5. Marketing the Initiative to Secure Financial Support

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