Week 4 Community
Strategic Plan: Part B, Strategic Plan
For this assignment, you will research and prepare a
community-level strategic plan that addresses a key public health issue.
Potential topics may include:
• Using prenatal
and infancy home visits to prevent child abuse and neglect
• Preventing
falls in the elderly
• Reducing
population salt intake
• Reducing tobacco
use among adults
• Preventing
risky sexual behavior among youth and young adults
• Reducing drug
experimentation among young adults
Include the following in your paper:
Introduction:
Provide an overview of the community health issue as
described in Part A with identified causes and influences, including knowledge
gaps.
Detail the prevalence of the issue inside and outside the
United States.
Describe potential monetary costs associated with the issue
in the United States.
You must include data as part of your introduction (images,
charts, graphs, etc., may be included as well as written data).
Describe advance practice roles and management strategies
that affect change at the community level.
Identify key community and social resources that negatively
and positivelyaffect the selected issue.
Identify changes or enhancements in community-related
services for your selected topic.
Develop a strategic plan that could decrease the prevalence
of your selected topic.The goals for this plan needs to be specific, measurable,
attainable, realistic, and time-bound. Include how your plan takes into
consideration health literacy, socioeconomic factors, and cultural differences.
Conclusion:
A summary of the goals and challenges
An assessment of the outlook for action/progress
Appendix A: Include your community assessment from Week 3 as
Appendix A.
Your paper should be 3–5 pages in length (not including the
cover or reference pages). Use APA throughout.
Include 2–3 scholarly sources that are carefully selected
and appropriate to the topic. References should be current—no more than four
years old.
Due: Sunday, 11:59 p.m. (Pacific time)
Points: 110
Review the rubric for further information on how your
assignment will be graded.
Before you begin, review some strategic plans to garner
ideas for developing your own strategic plan.
ACL strategic plan (2013–2018)
A strategic plan to make improvements in the network of
community-based long term care and supportive services for older adults and
adults with disabilities in San Francisco
