TOPIC: Assessment of the Current State
Overview
Many have drawn the parallel between a public health strategic plan and a blueprint or a road map. A strategic plan should clearly describe the public health identity and goals for a community, organization, or agency. In addition, the plan should describe how an entity will chart a course to achieve those goals and monitor its progress along the way.
Scenario
As the director of the local public health department, you are tasked with embarking upon a strategic planning process. You have decided to write an introductory open letter to the stakeholders in your community.(NORTH DAKOTA)
Instructions
This assignment has two components (deliverables):
- A staff e-mail:
- The purpose of the e-mail is to seek approval and feedback from your staff at the public health department on the letter for public dissemination.
- In your e-mail, briefly evaluate strategies for achieving change and identify one theoretical framework for the organizational change strategies you have proposed.
- Explain why you selected this theory, and justify why you think this is a successful approach in light of the overall strategic plan goals.
- Utilize your Unit 2 readings to support your discussion of relevant theory.
- An open letter to the general public.
- The letter to the general public should provide clear, concise information so readers understand the purpose, scope, and approaches that will be utilized to implement the strategic plan that will benefit the community.
- As an open letter that will be posted to the local public health department’s website and social media outlets, you will expect wide distribution and comments/feedback.
The numbered assignment instructions outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the assignment scoring guide, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
- Evaluate why a specific public health initiative or change to an existing program is needed in a community.
- Why does this community need this program?
- What difference will it make?
- Evaluate strategies for achieving change in an organization.
- What approach or approaches for initiating change would work best with this organization?
- Summarize the impediments that could be encountered with the proposed plan or program.
- How big of a concern are they?
- What can be done to circumvent these issues?
- Recommend feasible approaches to solving potential problems with the proposed plan or program.
- Consider strategies you will utilize to encourage community-based and collaborative approaches throughout the strategic planning process.
- If disagreement arises, either among your staff, partners, or community members, how will you direct the resolution of those challenges?
- Explain how implementation of the proposed plan or program will be funded
- What community resources are available to support the strategic goal?
- What new resources or revenue streams should be considered?
- Summarize the intended future state of the proposed public health initiative.
- What is the best possible outcome?
- Write in accordance with the academic and professional requirements of the discipline, ensuring appropriate structure, grammar, usage, and style, and proper APA formatting of references.
Additional Requirements
- Written communication: Your e-mail and letter should be well structured and concise, and the letter should respond to each question provided above. Both documents should generally be free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
- Format: One inch margins, in a readable font, no longer than 2 pages for both documents combined.
- Citations and references: Include a minimum of 3 current, scholarly, and/or authoritative sources that support the e-mail’s content and the letter’s content. Your references need to conform to APA style and formatting guidelines. Include in-text citations and a references page.
- Technical: Create a PDF of your final submission, and upload it to the assignment area.
- Include THREE academic references above 2017
- NO CONSIDERATION FOR PLAGIARISM
- APA FORMAT AND INDEX CITATION
- PLEASE WRITE FROM PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE
- Due 7/22/22 at 10am
Make sure to follow all the Assessment of the Current State Scoring Guide to again full points
| CRITERIA | NON-PERFORMANCE | BASIC | PROFICIENT | DISTINGUISHED |
| Evaluate why a specific public health initiative or change to an existing program is needed in a community. 16% | Does not evaluate why a specific public health initiative or change to an existing program is needed in a community. | Explains but does not evaluate why a specific public health initiative or change to an existing program is needed in a community. | Evaluates why a specific public health initiative or change to an existing program is needed in a community. | Evaluates why a specific public health initiative or change to an existing program is needed in a community in a descriptive, clear, and persuasive manner. |
| Evaluate strategies for achieving change in an organization. 14% | Does not evaluate strategies for achieving change in an organization. | Explains but does not evaluate strategies for achieving change in an organization. | Evaluates strategies for achieving change in an organization. | Evaluates strategies for achieving change in an organization, adding depth and theory to the analysis. |
| Summarize the impediments that could be encountered with the proposed plan or program. 14% | Does not summarize the impediments that could be encountered with the proposed plan or program. | Summarizes some but not all of the impediments that could be encountered with the proposed plan or program. | Summarizes the impediments that could be encountered with the proposed plan or program. | Summarizes the impediments that could be encountered with the proposed plan or program and draws well-substantiated conclusions. |
| Recommend feasible approaches to solving potential problems with the proposed plan or program. 14% | Does not recommend feasible approaches to solving potential problems with the proposed plan or program. | Recommends approaches to solving potential problems with the proposed plan or program but recommendations are not well defined or supported sufficiently. | Recommends feasible approaches to solving potential problems with the proposed plan or program. | Recommends feasible approaches to solving potential problems with the proposed plan or program and provides examples. |
| Explain how implementation of the proposed plan or program will be funded. 14% | Does not explain how implementation of the proposed plan or program will be funded. | Identifies but does not explain how implementation of the proposed plan or program will be funded. | Explains how implementation of the proposed plan or program will be funded. | Explains and evaluates how implementation of the proposed plan or program will be funded. |
| Summarize the intended future state of the proposed public health initiative. 14% | Does not summarize the intended future state of the proposed public health initiative. | Provides a cursory summary of the intended future state of the proposed public health initiative. | Summarizes the intended future state of the proposed public health initiative. | Summarizes the intended future state of the proposed public health initiative and shows a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the topic. |
| Write in accordance with the academic and professional requirements of the discipline, ensuring appropriate structure, grammar, usage, and style, and proper APA formatting of references. 14% | Does not write in accordance with the academic and professional requirements of the discipline, ensuring appropriate structure, grammar, usage, and style, and proper APA formatting of references. | Writing partially meets the academic and professional requirements of the discipline; work has errors in structure, grammar, usage, style, or APA formatting of references. | Writes in accordance with the academic and professional requirements of the discipline, ensuring appropriate structure, grammar, usage, and style, and proper APA formatting of references. | Writes in full accordance with the academic and professional requirements of the discipline; work uses appropriate structure, grammar, usage, and style, and proper APA formatting of references with no errors. |