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912 I — Community Health:  Planning and Prevention Level I & II Combined, (14 weeks)

Content:

This course is designed to introduce students to conceptual and practical issues pertaining to planning, implementing and evaluating community models of service delivery.

Objectives:

Students should be able to verbally and in writing:

1. Describe a community systems framework for understanding the development of community health and social issues.
2. Analyze community characteristics, community planning structures, barriers to change, community need, and formal and informal systems of care.
3. Develop a population-based model for understanding community health issues and formulating community based strategies for health interventions.
4. Describe models of community change and interventions.
5. Evaluate interventions of community change and interventions.

Format:

Readings from a text, small group discussion, simulations, guest speakers and small group tasks.

Evaluation:

Written and verbal assignments.

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912 III— Community Health:  Planning and Prevention  Level III, (20 weeks)

Criteria for Admission:

Satisfactory completion of Community Levels I and II.  This level is designed for students who have major responsibilities and activities that require them to work in the community with several systems.

Content:

Development of a Program proposal to effect change in a defined problem of an inter-agency nature.

Objectives:

To learn how to use oneself effectively to focus on a social problem of concern; assess social change related to the social problem; prepare strategies of intervention, and evaluate them as agreed upon in contracted objectives.

1. Using the student’s work setting as a launching base, identify a social problem and a community (either geographic or community of interest).
2. Set purposeful and appropriate objectives.
3. Identify strategies for change in the system.
4. Evaluate your intervention.

Format:

A learning contract, small group critique process, use of the student’s own agency.

Evaluation:

A proposal for Program assessed by peers, tutor, and faculty along the dimension of its specificity regarding an indicated change.