After you have completed the goal and objectives for the teaching project. The next step is to out-line a Community Health Plan and Health Education Lesson Plan for his/her community and implement this in his/her community. See an example attached (please note this sample is missing the cover page and reference page). Sample Community Health Project Outline.docx

1.  Community Health Teaching Project Outline
   Answer all items below:
   1. Assessment: Assess a targeted population in your community to see what needs to exist. This is done by researching health data for your population. Make sure you select and define your community by noting the history of your community.
   2. Capture a picture of your selected community. What are the vital statistics of your community? Think about socioeconomic statistics. What illnesses or diseases are present in your community? Do citizens in your community have easy access to primary care? What are the most prevalent health problems in your community?
   3. Formulate a community health nursing diagnosis related to this health need, based on this data, what are the strengths and needs of your community?
   4. Plan community intervention. Ask yourself if this will have a positive health impact in the designated population? How do you know?
   5. Propose an educational presentation that will address the most important needs of your population. The presentation must be arranged with your instructor. The instructor will attend your presentation virtually or in person.
   6. Propose an Evaluation Plan: How would you evaluate your intervention?

 Examples for the project: Health screening, health education, getting a sidewalk or gym or rec. center built, provide car seats for children in poverty areas, design and after-school-program for at risk students, provide training to inmates or correctional facility staff on infection control, organize a home visitation for at-risk teen moms, teaching nutritional cooking to moms receiving WIC, intervene in a communicable disease outbreak situation, develop a disaster plan, STD/HIV reduction rate program in a specific population, increase immunization rates in school-age children, Safety (texting while driving)(car seats)(firearm)(summer), depression screening of college students, assessing client satisfaction with public health services, obesity prevention, nutrition programs, physical fitness programs, marketing prenatal care, CHIP (community health improvement plan), teaching parents alternative discipline methods, tobacco cessation, etc.