Write a paper, identifying a public health problem in your community and making a case for why it is important to address the problem from a personal and a community perspective.

Community Intervention: Topic and Stakeholder Identification
Overview
Write a paper, identifying a public health problem in your community and making a case for why it is important to address the problem from a personal and a community perspective. You will need to support your case with the most recent data and references.
Preparation
Gather Your Evidence
Complete the following:
Identify a priority issue: Since most of you are in the public health field, identifying a public health problem in your community should not be a problem. If you have a personal connection to the problem, it is fine to include that experience in your paper.
Almost all public health departments have a CHA you can use to help identify priority issues.
Note: Remember to cite yourself as a source whenever you offer information from personal experiences.
Important: Back up your personal experience with evidence from a peer-reviewed source.
Identify a local public health issue that aligns with a county community health assessment. After you have identified a public health problem, show why it is important in your community, using data you have collected from a public website.
Describe evidence-based practices related to the public health issue.
Identify and present two significant community stakeholders, excluding a public health agency, in your community who are also interested in this problem. Note: You can cite their websites, and present information from these sites that demonstrates their interest in the problem.
Give one hypothetical example of how these stakeholders can collaborate with a public health agency around the issue or problem you identified. You need to suggest one asset each stakeholder can bring to the collaboration.
Select a stakeholder best equipped to lead a collaboration with public health, based on the stakeholder’s mission.
Analyze the role of community collaborations in promoting population health.
Review the Community Intervention: Topic and Stakeholder Identification Scoring Guide carefully to fully understand how this assignment will be graded.
Submission Requirements
Your assignment should meet the following requirements:
APA format: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
Number of references: A minimum of three peer-reviewed resources.
Length of paper: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages of content plus cover and reference pages and any appendices.
€Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

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Community Health Needs Assessment
Preparation
Use what you learned in the unit readings to support your position in the discussion. You are also free to compare your own personal experiences to what you have read in this unit.
Discussion Questions
In this discussion, you will assume the role of a concerned member of your own community. Look at your local community health needs assessment. It is usually found at your local county health department, and pick an issue that is personally interesting to you. Finally, use the Internet to find some local stakeholders who might be interested in doing something about the public health issue you have chosen. (A sample community health needs assessment from Hennepin County, Minnesota, is provided in the required readings in this unit.)
Now, answer these questions in your post:
Why did you choose the particular issue?
What additional evidence, besides the community health needs assessment information, did you find that supports the fact that your issue is important in your community?
Which are the various communities within your own local community? (You only need to identify three.) Briefly describe them.
What are the gaps in your understanding of your own community? (In other words, what more could you learn about your community that would enhance your understanding of the health issue you chose?)
What are the assumptions you made about the stakeholders you have identified around your community issue?
What have you learned in this unit so far that might help you better understand your current employment position, and your personal experiences in community?
Be sure to complete this discussion using APA-appropriate in-text citations as well as references.
Response Guidelines
Respond to posts that have had few responses thus far. Include most or all of the following:
Engage your peer. Tell him or her specifically why you chose to respond to the post.
Seek clarification. Talk about what is unclear. Ask questions. Offer suggestions.
Make it real. Include personal examples or work experiences that add perspective to your reply.
Be a practitioner-scholar. In addition to your personal or work experience, include one academic reference in your reply. Use current APA style and formatting appropriate to the type of reference you provide.
Refer to the Faculty Expectations for Response Guidelines.
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
Understand community dynamics, teamwork and cultural contexts in which public health professionals work
Apply the concepts of population health, and the basic processes, approaches and interventions that identify and address the major health-related needs and concerns of populations.
Practice using APA style and format in scholarly discussions.

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Studies
Readings
Sample Community Health Assessment
Use the Capella library and the Internet to read or review the following:
Hennepin County Minnesota. (n.d.). Public health data. Retrieved from https://www.hennepin.us/publichealthdata
Freudenberg, N., & Tsui, E. (2014). Evidence, power, and policy change in community-based participatory research. American Journal of Public Health, 104(1), 11–14.
Key Websites
NACCHO and the CDC websites are the two most important websites to dig into during this course. In this unit, review the following NACCHO pages:
National Association of County and City Health Officials. (n.d.). NACCHO. Retrieved from https://www.naccho.org/
This website provides a wealth of information on local needs. The organization promotes EBP as the approach that should be adopted by public health agencies.
NACCHO. (n.d.). The community guide toolkit. Retrieved from http://www.ebprevention.org/cg/
NACCHO. (n.d.). Mobilizing for Action Through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP). Retrieved from http://www.naccho.org/topics/infrastructure/mapp/index.cfm
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
Identify the fundamental characteristics and organizational structures of the US health system
Locate, use and evaluate public health information.

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