Strengths and Barriers to Program Implementation

 As you design your program, it is important to anticipate potential issues related to program implementation. Careful forethought can help you to minimize unnecessary stumbling blocks during implementation.
 

There are strengths and barriers associated with every program. What do you see as the key factors to be aware of for your program? Brainstorm key terms such as community, culture, environment, organization, client, bias, and ethics. Give consideration to the factors you come up with (along with those in the Learning Resources) as you proceed with this Discussion.
 

To prepare:

• Review      the information presented in the Learning Resources. What are some of the      factors (e.g., community, organization, environmental, ethical) that you      consider strengths or facilitators for your program (breast cancer in      African American women in the USA)?
• Which      ones do you think may pose a challenge for your program(breast cancer in      African American women in the USA)?
• How      do these barriers need to be addressed in your program design? 
• How      might the strengths be leveraged to help overcome the barriers?
  
   

By tomorrow Wednesday 01/02/19 2 pm post a minimum of 550 words essay in APA format with a minimum of 3 scholarly references from the list of required readings below. (Also see attached file on the previous paper regarding the program on the issue of breast cancer in African American women in the USA). Include the level one header as numbered below:

Post a cohesive scholarly response that addresses the following:

1) Analyze two or more community, client, organization, and/or environmental forces that may facilitate your program and two or more that may pose a challenge for your program (breast cancer in African American women in the USA).

2) Propose a strategy for addressing one of the barriers as a part of your program design (breast cancer in African American women in the USA)?

3) Ask questions of your colleagues regarding how you might address the other challenge.

Required Readings

Hodges, B. C., & Videto, D. M. (2011). Assessment and planning in health programs (2nd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

• Chapter 4, “Program Planning: The Big Picture”

• Chapter 5, “Social Marketing, Program Planning, and Implementation”

• Chapter 8, “Identifying Strategies and Activities”

• Chapter 9, “Program Implementation”

Chapter 4 outlines the program planning steps and emphasizes the importance of including your target population and additional stakeholders in the design process. Chapter 5 reemphasizes this focus on the target audience as the authors discuss the use of marketing principles in relation to program development and implementation. Chapter 8 discusses the importance of utilizing strategies that are aligned with the theoretical foundations of a program and presents recommendations for developing suitable activities. In Chapter 9, the authors note that even implementation requires planning; they provide guidance for implementation planning and advise how this can also support evaluation.

Kettner, P. M., Moroney, R. M., & Martin, L. L. (2017). Designing and managing programs: An effectiveness-based approach (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Review Chapter 6, “Selecting the Appropriate Intervention Strategy”

Chapter 8, “Designing Effective Programs”

Review Chapter 6, which discusses the connection between the program hypothesis and service decisions. Chapter 8 addresses how to design elements of a program systematically in order to promote consistency and attend to the necessary details.

Breslau, E.S., Weiss, E.S., Williams, A., Burness, A., & Kapka, D. (2015). The implementation road: Engaging community partnerships in evidence-based cancer control interventions. Health Promotion Practice, 16(1), 40–54 doi: 10.1177/1524839914528705

Buck, H.G., Kolanowski, A., Fick, D., & Baronner, L (2016). Improving rural geriatric care through education: A scalable, collaborative project. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 47(7), 306-313 doi:10.3928/00220124-20160616-06 

KIDASA Software. (n.d.). Gantt charts. Retrieved December 12, 2011, from http://www.ganttchart.com/Examples.html

This site provides examples of different forms of Gantt charts.

Minb, A., Patel, S., Bruce-Barrett, C., O-Campo, P. (2015). Letting youths choose for themselves: Concept mapping as a participatory approach for program and service planning. Family Community Health, 38(1), 33–43 doi: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000060

Soong, C.S., Wangm M.P., Mui, M., Viswanath, K., Lam, T.H., & Chan, S.SC. (2015). A “community fit” community-based participatory research program for family health, happiness, and harmony: Design and implementation. JMIR Research Protocols, 4(4), 1–10 doi:10.2196/resprot.4369

Witherspoon, B., Braunlin, K., & Kumar, A.B. (2016). A secure, social media-based “case of the month” module in a neurocritical care unit (2016). American Journal of Critical Care, 25(4), 310–317 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2016203

Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2011). Design and evaluation of programs and projects [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

“Designing Effective Programs” (featuring Dr. Donna Shambley-Ebron, Dr. Debora Dole, and Dr. Rebecca Lee)

You may view this course video by clicking the link or on the course DVD, which contains the same content. Once you’ve opened the link, click on the appropriate media piece.

In this week’s videos, Dr. Donna Shambley-Ebron, Dr. Debora Dole, and Dr. Rebecca Lee share experiences related to designing effective programs.