Describe the resources and health services that are available to support these health behavior changes.

Overview
As a future community health professional, you will likely be asked to implement intervention and prevention strategies based on data from research in the field. You will make recommendations and seek resources to support health behavior changes needed within the community.
Prompt
In this milestone, you will address health behaviors, resources, and strategies. These aspects compose Section IV, Educational Information, of the final project.
Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed:
Educational Information: In the concluding section of your presentation, you will explain how intervention and prevention strategies can be used to support health behavior changes in the community. Specifically, you should address the following:
Health Behavior: Based on the data and your research of the issue, what changes in behavior should occur in order to see improvement in the issue? For example, setting specific and measurable weight loss goals could be a behavior change when working to reduce obesity.
Resources: Describe the resources and health services that are available to support these health behavior changes. In other words, what resources could the community use to support the health behavior changes you identified?
Strategies: How can key prevention and intervention strategies be used to support the changes in behavior that you identified? For instance, you might explain a prevention strategy such as community education around developing the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to make good choices or change harmful behaviors.
What to Submit
Your presentation conclusion must be 2 to 3 paragraphs with at least two sources cited in APA format.
Milestone Two Rubric
Criteria Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (85%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Educational Information: Health Behavior Identifies changes in behavior that should occur in order to see improvement in issue, based on data and research Identifies changes in behavior that should occur in order to see improvement in issue, but response has gaps in detail or accuracy or is not based on data and research Does not identify changes in behavior that should occur in order to see improvement in issue 30
Educational Information: Resources Describes resources and health services that are available to support health behavior changes Describes resources and health services that are available to support health behavior changes, but with gaps in detail or accuracy Does not describe resources and health services that are available to support health behavior changes 30
Educational Information: Strategies Articulates how key prevention and intervention strategies can be used to support identified changes in behavior Articulates how key prevention and intervention strategies can be used to support identified changes in behavior, but with gaps in detail or accuracy Does not articulate how key prevention and intervention strategies can be used to support identified changes in behavior 30
Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 10
Total: 100%

CHE 110 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
The final project for this course is the creation of a presentation.
Community health educators promote health and prevent disease through education that leads to changes in behavior. Health educators address lifestyle and health issues such as nutrition, substance abuse, and pregnancy by providing information and knowledge on these issues to the public. While there are many methods that health educators use to do this, one of the primary means is by presenting to various audiences. To this end, you will develop a presentation on a community health issue for your summative assessment. This will give you a small taste of what it is like to be a community health educator.
For your presentation, you will be placed in the role of a community health educator in the county of your choice; you can select the county where you live, or a county in an area of interest to you. You will then select a public health issue from the list below, or you may select an issue not on the list with your instructor’s approval. The issue you select should be of professional interest to you. Next, you will identify a group of community stakeholders in the county you selected who could help address your issue. You may select one from the list below or come up with your own, with your instructor’s approval. After selecting a county, a public health issue, and a community stakeholder group, you are ready to develop your presentation. The audience for your presentation is the community stakeholder group you selected, and the goal of your presentation is to educate that audience on the specific health issue you selected, soliciting their support and involvement in addressing the issue. Your presentation will be informed by research and data from the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps website, in addition to other relevant resources.
Public Health Issues:
Teen pregnancy
Substance abuse
Obesity
Other with instructor approval
Community Stakeholder Groups:
Church pastors or other religious leaders
Grocery store managers
Local physicians
Community center director
School officials
Parent Teacher Organization (PTO)
Other with instructor approval
The project is divided into two milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Four and Six. The final project will be submitted in Module Seven.
In this assignment you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
Apply basic principles of community health education in communicating with specific audiences about public health issues and their impact
Identify roles and responsibilities of community health educators in addressing public health issues
Illustrate how fundamental aspects of community health education programs can be used to address public health issues
Articulate how key intervention and prevention strategies can be used to support health behavior changes in communities
Prompt
Your presentation should address the following prompt: Select a county, a public health issue, and a group of community stakeholders. Use the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps website and other relevant resources to research your issue. Remember that the audience for your presentation is the group of community stakeholders within the county you selected. You will need to include speaker notes with your presentation so that your instructor will know what you would say if you were actually presenting to this group.
Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed:
Communication With Audience: Be sure that you tailor your presentation for the audience you selected. For instance, if you are presenting to a group of physicians, the language and terminology that you use might be different than if you are presenting to a school PTO.
Introduction: In this section, you will discuss your role as a community health educator in addressing public health issues. Specifically, you should address the following:
Role and Responsibilities: Explain your professional role and responsibilities as a community health educator, focusing on the issue you selected. In other words, what do you do as a community health educator related to the issue?
Work: Describe the typical areas in which community health educators work, focusing on the issue you selected. In other words, where else might your audience see you? Examples of locations you might discuss include private health agencies, health clinics, nongovernmental health agencies, and community-based organizations.
Goal: In your role as a community health educator, what is your specific goal in this presentation related to the issue you selected? For instance, you might want to prevent or reduce instances of the issue you selected or a problem connected to it. Or you might want to promote healthy lifestyle choices in a particular area.
Public Health Issue: In this section, you will apply basic principles of community health education to the issue you selected. Then, you will illustrate how aspects of community health education programs can be used to address the issue. Specifically, you should address the following:
Issue: Describe the public health issue that you selected, basing your description on principles of community health education.
Risk Factors: What are the risk factors for the issue? For example, is there a population that is more likely to face this issue? Or are there behaviors that typically lead to the issue? Your response should be based on principles of community health education.
Impact: How does the issue impact the community? For instance, does the issue affect public safety in the community? Does the issue affect the local tax rate? Your response should be based on principles of community health education.
Community Need: Explain why the issue is a need in the community. In other words, why should this issue be addressed? Support your explanation with relevant data and research.
Program: Illustrate, concisely and broadly, how this issue could be addressed in the community. In other words, provide a brief, broad description of a community health education program that could be developed to address the issue. For example, you might develop a nutrition program to educate the community on making healthier diet choices.
Stakeholder Involvement: How can the stakeholders you are presenting to be involved in addressing the issue? For instance, you might ask grocery store owners to donate healthy snacks to an afterschool program, or you might ask the community center director to provide meeting space for a support group.
Educational Information: In the concluding section of your presentation, you will explain how intervention and prevention strategies can be used to support health behavior changes in the community. Specifically, you should address the following:
Health Behavior: Based on the data and your research of the issue, what changes in behavior should occur in order to see improvement in the issue? For example, setting specific and measurable weight loss goals could be a behavior change when working to reduce obesity.
Resources: Describe the resources and health services that are available to support these health behavior changes. In other words, what resources could the community use to support the health behavior changes you identified?
Strategies: How can key prevention and intervention strategies be used to support the changes in behavior that you identified? For instance, you might explain a prevention strategy such as community education around
Milestones
Milestone One: Draft of Public Health Issue
In Module Four, you will submit a draft of the Public Health Issue section (critical element III above) of your final project. This milestone is graded with the Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric.
Milestone Two: Educational Information
In Module Six, you will submit a draft of the Educational Information section (critical element IV above) of your final project. This milestone is graded with the Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric.
Final Submission: Presentation
In Module Seven, you will submit a presentation. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final project. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This submission is graded with the Final Project Rubric.
What to Submit
Your presentation should contain approximately 8–10 slides and use Prezi, PowerPoint, or another comparable presentation tool. If you would like to, you may use the Final Project Template to complete this project. Make sure that you include speaker notes so that your instructor knows what you would say if you were to actually give the presentation. Include at least seven references cited in APA format.
Final Project Rubric
Criteria Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Communication With Audience Meets “Proficient” criteria and presentation expertly balances needs of selected audience with community health education principles Tailors presentation appropriately for selected audience Tailors presentation for selected audience, but tailoring is not always appropriate Does not tailor presentation for selected audience 6
Introduction: Role and Responsibilities Meets “Proficient” criteria and explanation of professional role and responsibilities is especially well-aligned to selected issue Explains professional role and responsibilities as community health educator, focusing on selected issue Explains professional role and responsibilities as community health educator, but with gaps in clarity, detail, or focus on selected goal Does not explain professional role and responsibilities as community health educator 8
Introduction: Work Meets “Proficient” criteria and explanation demonstrates nuanced understanding of roles of community health educators Describes typical areas in which community health educators work, focusing on selected issue Describes typical areas in which community health educators work, but with gaps in clarity, detail, or focus on selected issue Does not describe typical areas in which community health educators work 8
Introduction: Goal Meets “Proficient” criteria and goal is especially well-aligned to public health issue Identifies specific goal in presentation related to selected issue Identifies goal in presentation, but goal lacks specificity or is not related to selected issue Does not identify goal in presentation 8
Public Health Issue: Issue Meets “Proficient” criteria and response demonstrates strong grasp of using basic principles of community health education in communicating about public health issues Describes selected public health issue based on principles of community health education Describes selected public health issue based on principles of community health education, but with gaps in clarity, detail, or relevance of principles to issue Does not describe selected public health issue based on principles of community health education 6
Public Health Issue: Risk Factors/Social Determinants Meets “Proficient” criteria and response demonstrates strong grasp of using basic principles of community health education in communicating about risk factors/social determinants for public health issues Identifies risk factors/social determinants for health issue based on principles of community health education Identifies risk factors/social determinants for health issue based on principles of community health education, but with gaps in detail, accuracy, or relevance of principles to risk factors Does not identify risk factors/social determinants for health issue based on principles of community health education 6
Public Health Issue: Impact Meets “Proficient” criteria and response demonstrates strong grasp of using basic principles of community health education in communicating about impact of public health issues Explains how issue impacts the community based on principles of community health education Explains how issue impacts the community based on principles of community health education, but with gaps in detail, accuracy, or relevance of principles to impact of issue Does not explain how issue impacts the community based on principles of community health education 6
Public Health Issue: Community Need Meets “Proficient” criteria and response demonstrates deep understanding of using data and research in addressing public health issues through community health education programs Explains why issue is a need in the community, supporting response with relevant data and research Explains why issue is a need in the community, but with gaps in detail, accuracy, or support Does not explain why issue is a need in the community 8
Public Health Issue: Program Meets “Proficient” criteria and response demonstrates keen insight into connection between community health education programs and identified issues Illustrates, concisely and broadly, how issue could be addressed in community Illustrates how issue could be addressed in community, but response is wordy, overly specific, or contains irrelevant information Does not illustrate how issue could be addressed in community 8
Public Health Issue: Stakeholder Involvement Meets “Proficient” criteria and response demonstrates keen insight into connection between stakeholder involvement and development of community health education programs Explains how stakeholders can be involved in addressing issue Explains how stakeholders can be involved in addressing issue, but with gaps in detail or accuracy Does not explain how stakeholders can be involved in addressing issue 8
Educational Information: Health Behavior Meets “Proficient” criteria and response demonstrates strong grasp of using data and research to identify health behavior changes Identifies changes in behavior that should occur in order to see improvement in issue, based on data and research Identifies changes in behavior that should occur in order to see improvement in issue, but response has gaps in detail or accuracy, or is not based on data and research Does not identify changes in behavior that should occur in order to see improvement in issue 8
Educational Information: Resources Meets “Proficient” criteria and description demonstrates keen insight into supporting health behavior changes Describes resources and health services that are available to support health behavior changes Describes resources and health services that are available to support health behavior changes, but with gaps in detail or accuracy Does not describe resources and health services that are available to support health behavior changes 8
Educational Information: Strategies Meets “Proficient” criteria and key prevention and intervention strategies are especially well-aligned to identified health behavior changes Articulates how key prevention and intervention strategies can be used to support identified changes in behavior Articulates how key prevention and intervention strategies can be used to support identified changes in behavior, but with gaps in detail or accuracy Does not articulate how key prevention and intervention strategies can be used to support identified changes in behavior 8
Articulation of Response Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas