Health program development cycle

It is generally recommended that a community choose no more than three to five priorities to focus on within one community health improvement process cycle.

This will increase focus, maximize impact, and create alignment of individual action against community goals. How are you going to determine if your priority areas are improving? Develop some measures for each priority area. Create overarching strategies to improve each Indicator. It is important to remember that strategies at the community level are shared strategies. This process forces you to dive deep into the factors that are influencing health conditions in your community so that you can create strategies and action-plans that get results.

Read our webpage here to learn more about the Turn the Curve Process. What we do at the organizational or service-system level is our contribution to community-level strategy.

Partners should, therefore, develop organizational-level strategies and programs designed to achieve the community-level strategy. Quality improvement planning is normally separate from community health improvement planning.

We believe that these processes should be developed in tandem as part of a comprehensive health improvement strategy. Quality improvement planning will, for the most part, be an individual-level activity, but it is important to ensure that partners are on the same page BEFORE they engage in quality improvement.

Make sure each partner understands the difference between community-level strategy and organizational-level strategy. How will you know if the community members served by each organization are better off?

Each organization should create measures designed to evaluate the effectiveness of each program or service they are responsible for implementing. This is how they will communicate individual contributions to community well-being.

For more information on selecting effective performance measures, visit our website here. This is why continual evaluation of the plan should occur. Regularly convene your partners to assess the state of community health Indicators.

Go through the Turn the Curve Process to evaluate the state of each Indicator. Organizations should also independently evaluate, using the Turn the Curve Process, their owned performance measures to assess program quality and impact.

The latter part of the training explores both formative and summative evaluation, and why these components are so critical to the process. As a result of this activity the learner will enhance their knowledge and competence in the steps of program development and evaluation. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 1. Continuing Competency credits available are 1. Provider ID The University at Albany School of Public Health is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This offering is approved for 1. The School of Public Health, University at Albany designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1. Work with Lolina to successfully plan, develop, implement and evaluate your programs. Program planning and development are fundamental processes used to strategically set goals, maximize resources, and ultimately, make organizations more sustainable. Launching new initiatives and programs in an organized and realistic manner is a key building block to future success and outcomes.

Furthermore, an evaluation plan is a dynamic tool that is an important roadmap defining the what, how and why of your program work.