What challenges exist for the community organizations to become real collaborators with the public health agency?

Studies
Readings
Intervention Mapping
Use the Capella library to read the following:
Corbie-Smith, G., Akers, A., & Bluementhal, C. (2010). Intervention mapping as a participatory approach to developing an HIV prevention intervention in rural African American communities [PDF]. AIDS Education and Prevention, 22(3), 184–202.
Garba, R. M., & Gadanya, M. A. (2017). The role of intervention mapping in designing disease prevention interventions: A systematic review of the literature. PLoS One, 12(3), 1–18.
Mann, C. M., Ward, D. S., Vaughn, A., Neelon, S. E. B., Vidal, L. J. L., Omar, S., . . . Østbye, T. (2015). Application of the intervention mapping protocol to develop Keys, a family child care home intervention to prevent early childhood obesity [PDF]. BMC Public Health, 15(1227), 1–13.
Stea, T. H., Haugen, T., Berntsen, S., Guttormsen, V., Overby, N. C., Haraldstad, K., . . . Abildsnes, E. (2016). Using the intervention mapping protocol to develop a family-based intervention for improving lifestyle habits among overweight and obese children: Study protocol for a quasi-experimental trial [PDF]. BMC Public Health, 16(1092), 1–15.
Multimedia
Click American Family – Helping Others to view the presentation.
In this multimedia interactive, the American Family story returns. Watch how the IM approach can be used to plan a community intervention.
Optional Resources

Intervention Mapping
Overview
This assignment will enable you to better understand and use IM for your final case study.
Preparation
You have already chosen a local public health issue from your own community in your Unit 3 assignment. You have also found an intervention that will help you address the issue you chose in the Unit 5 assignment. Now, you need to complete the process by understanding how IM is used in public health to assess the strengths and weaknesses of EBPs. This assignment will help you continue to build your final case study.
Take on the role of a local public health outreach worker who has been assigned by the superior to prepare a recommendation for a strategic intervention dealing with a public health issue.
Review the following articles from the unit readings:
Voogt et al.’s 2014 article, “The Development of a Web-Based Brief Alcohol Intervention in Reducing Heavy Drinking Among College Students: An Intervention Mapping Approach.”
Corbie-Smith, Akers, and Bluementhal’s 2010 article, “Intervention Mapping As a Participatory Approach to Developing an HIV Prevention Intervention in Rural African American Communities.”
Problem Statement Summary
In a paragraph, summarize your community public health problem statement and justification from the Unit 3 assignment.
Analysis of Intervention Mapping Approach
For this section, compare and contrast two articles provided that discuss IM.
Write a summary of both articles that contains the following elements:
A description of how IM was used in these two articles.
The identification and analysis of the similarities and differences between the two different issues (drinking and HIV) involved.
A description of how IM is used as an advocacy strategy.
An assessment of the strengths and weaknesses you found in the IM approach. Support your reasoning with scholarly resources.
Offer one suggestion on how one could improve the IM process.
Review the Intervention Mapping Scoring Guide carefully to fully understand how this assignment will be graded.
Thinking Ahead to Unit 9 Assignment
In this course, each assignment leads into the next assignment. As you prepare to submit this assignment, ask yourself the following questions:
What do I know now about IM that I did not know before?
How will my understanding of IM help me complete my final case study assignment?
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.
Submit your document as an attachment to the assignment area.
Resources
Intervention Mapping Scoring Guide.
Public Health Undergraduate Library Research Guide.
The Development of a Web-Based Brief Alcohol Intervention in Reducing Heavy Drinking Among College Students.
Intervention Mapping As a Participatory Approach to Developing an HIV Prevention Intervention [PDF].
APA Style and Format.

A Stakeholder’s Perspective
Preparation
In this discussion, you will assume the role of a community stakeholder interested in your community issue. Please write the post from this perspective.
Use what you learned in the unit readings to support your position in the discussion. Cite at least two different references in your post. You are also free to compare your own personal experiences to what you have read in this unit.
As a community stakeholder, here are three components of information mapping you will raise in a longer-form memo with the local public health agency:
Barriers the community sees to the collaboration.
Possible ethical issues.
How the community would like to see the evaluation of the proposed intervention proceed.
To be able to write about these three components, you may need to look at a few more examples of community evidence-based interventions.
Discussion Questions
This discussion about barriers is a beginning thinking on what you will be examining in more depth in Unit 8.
After you have spent some time considering the topic of barriers, answer these questions in your post:
What are two hypothetical barriers the community needs to resolve before the intervention is implemented?
What challenges exist for the community organizations to become real collaborators with the public health agency?
What are the ethical implications of the suggested intervention? (Make sure you show how ethical implications will be dealt with.)
What criteria will be used to evaluate the success of the intervention, and what role will the community and community organizations play in determining that criteria?
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 helpful Campus links in the resources as necessary.
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 critical thinking skills when studying public health processes and methodologies.

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