Program Planning and Evaluation Essay
Assignment 1: Program Evaluation, Objectives and Setting Targets
You have been asked by your supervisor to review a community health program in your current
healthcare setting. If you do not have a community program available at work, you may research
and use for this assignment one that you find online.
Specifically, you are to discuss the issue that the program addresses. Present and evaluate the
current program objectives and targets. Your supervisor wants to know your assessment based on
your current knowledge of developing program objectives and setting targets.
Required key elements (be sure to review grading rubric for scoring!):
Develop a 2-page max WORD format paper that includes at minimum the following:
Cover/Title Page
Executive Summary (1-2 paragraphs)
Discuss the Situation. What issues does the program attempt to address?
Identify the program’s objectives and targets.
Present your Assessment of the program’s objectives and targets.
Present your Recommendations for program improvement
Conclusion
In-text citations and references: APA style
Writing: standard edited American English
Be sure the following is evident in your paper
Define the health problem
Identify or write the Casual Theory of the Health Problem
Identify several of the program objectives
Identify several of the program targets
Assessment of objectives and targets