Community Program Planning 2022
Community Program Planning 2022
Implementation
Learning Objectives
• An overview of program planning
Priority Setting
Monitoring
Assessment Analysis
Situation/Problem Analysis
• Present status
– Environment/situation in which the
community exits
• Political, Economic, Socio-cultural,
Technological Factors (PEST) PEST Analysis
– Community/program Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
(SWOT)
• Lapses, gaps
P.E.S.T.
PEST Analysis
SWOT Analysis
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– Pursue opportunities that are a good fit to – Identify ways that the community can use
the community's strengths. its strengths to reduce its vulnerability to
external threats.
– Overcome weaknesses to pursue
opportunities. – Establish a defensive plan to prevent the
community's weaknesses from making it
highly susceptible to external threats
Categories of Information
• Demographic Data
– (e.g., age characteristics, size, race, and
transience of the population)
Categories of • Geographical & Transportation
Information
Information • Historical Development
• Political, Legal & Ethnic Factions
• Economic Data
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Categories of Information
• Industries, Businesses & Institutions
• Social, Cultural, Educational &
Recreational Organizations
Data Collection
Methods
Resources Networking
• Immediate internal to the community • The process of
with other people
and/or establishments and potential clients
• Within the community – Strive to create a “ ” situation
• Developing and using contacts made in the
• Within the vicinity of the community line of work for purposes beyond the reason
for the initial contact
• External to the community
Networking Networking
• The best networking groups operate as • The trick with networking is to
exchanges of relevant information,
ideas, and support. – This means taking control of the situation
• The most important skill for effective instead of just reacting to it
networking is listening
• Networking requires
rather than on how he and challenging yourself
or she can help you is the to
establishing a mutually beneficial
relationship
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Networking
• Networking is a
Priority Setting
• Compare problems (importance, urgency)
• Availability of solution
• Appropriateness of the solution
• Feasibility of solutions
– Realistic Setting Goals
• Present capabilities
• Affordability
Activities (example)
• Output:
– Identify scheduling software that would
best fit clinic pattern.
• Activities: Logical
– Check for skills & training requirements
– Check for prices & warranties
Framework
– Review available scheduling software in
the market
– Ensure budget availability
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Outputs (Results)
1.
2.
3.
Activities Inputs
1. 1.1
2. 1.2
3. 1.3
4. 1.4
Problem (example)
• Problem:
– Clinic was known to be always crowded
– It takes time to process patients
Back to the • Names vs any previous records
• Current reasons for clinic visit
Activity Planning
• Resources needed for the intervention or
activity
– Existing resources?
Implementation Implementation
• Breakdown program activities into definite • Logistic support to perform tasks
task/job units • Organization of schedules or routines of the
• Job description for each task/position/ job
station – Action Plan
• Assignment of tasks • A map on “how to get there”
– To persons who will be accountable for their • Sequence of implementations or executions
completion – Gantt and/or PERT charts
PERT Chart
• Many times a goal is made because it just • Plain goals usually never get off the ground
seems like it should be completed or • Goals should excite you
someone else thinks it should be done • Set your goals high
• Goals that have a
• Goals tend to get lost in the mundane issues • All goals should be written with a positive
we face every day focus
• Keep your goals visible. • We are drawn to things positive and repulsed
from things negative
• Refocus negatively written goals to
highlight the positive when they are
achieved
• If you can't bring a passion to your goals, you • The most common cause of failed goals is lack
may want to change your goals of a plan
• Committing your goals into writing holds you onsistent in your efforts each day
accountable to yourself ersistent to keep going when it gets tough
• Telling someone else about your goals allows esistant to both the desire to give up and to
someone else to help hold you accountable those who might say you cannot do it
• “There is no such thing as a wish without the • Celebration reinforces all your efforts and
power to make it come true. You may have to builds momentum for the next goals
work for it, however.” (Richard Bach)
Remember: Remember:
• Remember: Causality & consequence
• Actions and details, both small and large, For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
matter For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
• There is a logical progression to the
consequences of one’s actions For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
So it was a kingdom was lost –
All for the want of a horseshoe nail.
- attributed to King Edward III, 1363;
earliest known quote was on John Gower's "Confesio Amantis", 1390?
Remember:
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