Session 8: Consideration of Model Programs
and Community Interventions

Objectives for Session 8:

• Students will conduct a literature search to identify interventions that address at least 2 of the contributing factors for their community health problem.
• Students will identify the criteria on which interventions should be evaluated (see attached Form 8.1 Intervention Summary).
• Students will summarize the results of different interventions.
• Students will list the strengths and weaknesses of identified interventions in the local community context.
• Students will rank interventions based on the ability to respond to important criteria.
• Students will develop an initial set of objectives for 2 proposed community interventions.
• Students will recommend evaluation strategies for the proposed community interventions.

Community Experience
January 15/17 or January 2 to 17, 2008

Student Assignment (before Session 8 Community Experience):

• Review PATCH Chapter 5 and read PATCH Chapter 6.
• Watch the mini-lecture on AIMS demonstrating how to conduct a literature search to find model interventions/programs.
• Read Self Instructional Package on Program Evaluation which is posted on AIMS.
• Go to the library and research different interventions that address the identified community health problem by impacting the identified contributing factors.
• Begin completing Form 8.1 Intervention Summary.

Community Experience Activities (Jan 15/17 or Jan 2 to 17):

Students will:

• Present preliminary recommendations for community interventions to community faculty.
• Provide the community faculty with copies of papers from the scientific literature in which the proposed interventions are described and used.
• Propose objectives for the interventions.

Community faculty will:

• Review issues identified on the Intervention Summary and any others that are appropriate.
• Discuss history of the community with any similar programs.
• Discuss feedback regarding the feasibility of the proposed interventions in the local context.
• Suggest options for evaluation in the local context.

Rootstown Session – January 18, 2008

Student Assignment (before Rootstown Session 8):

• Provide the Rootstown faculty with copies of the Intervention Summary and the scientific papers that were provide to the community faculty.
• Begin Form 8.2 Program Evaluation Plan

Rootstown Session Activities (Jan 18, 1-2:00pm):

Rootstown faculty will:

• Review with students the underlying model and the strength of the evidence linking the contributing factors to the health outcome.
• Review the strength and weakness of proposed interventions for implementation in the local community.
• Assist the students in developing both a process and an outcome evaluation with appropriate objectives and data collection methods.
• Assist the students to begin completing Form 8.2 Program Evaluation Plan.

Student Assignment in Order to Complete Written Assignment for Session 8:

• Research any additional programs that your Rootstown or community faculty may have suggested.
• Finalize the Form 8.1 Intervention Summary sheets from the synthesis for at least 2 interventions.
• Rank the interventions in terms of impact and feasibility.
• Finalize Form 8.2 Program Evaluation Plan for 2 interventions.

Written Assignment for Session 8 (Due Jan 28, 5:00pm):

For two potential interventions, provide the following information:

• Completed Form 8.1 CAN Intervention Summary.
• Completed Form 8.2 Program Evaluation Plan.
• Copies of journal articles (links to websites, etc.) describing the model program/intervention that were not previously provided to the Rootstown faculty.

Resources for Session 8:

PATCH, Chapter 5: Developing a comprehensive intervention plan, Chapter 6: Evaluating PATCH.

Mini-lecture on AIMS on conducting a literature review.

Self-Instructional Package on Program Evaluation, posted on AIMS.

CDC Community Guide to Preventive Services. Evidence-based recommendations for programs and policies to promote population health. At: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/

Partnership for Prevention. A national membership organization dedicated to building evidence of sound disease prevention and health promotion policies and practices and advocating their adoption by public and private sectors. At: http://www.prevent.org/

Community Tool Box “Develop an Intervention” at http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/intervention/outline.jsp

NEOUCOM databases at http://www.neoucom.edu/audience/library/resources/eresources

The Guide to Community Preventive Services, Evidence based recommendations for programs and policies to promote population health at http://www.TheCommunityGuide.org/

NEOUCOM reference librarians.

R. H. Fletcher & S. W. Fletcher: Chapter 9 Prevention, Chapter 11 Cause, Chapter 12 Systematic Reviews

Session 8:  Form 1
Community Assessment Notebook – Intervention Summary
Strengths/ Weaknesses of Program Choices

Strategy:________________________________________________________

Session 8:  Form 2
Program Evaluation Plan