Walden HLTH5205/HLTH6205/HLTH8205E Week 9 Discussion Latest 2024

HLTH-5205-1/HLTH-6205-1/HLTH-8205E Assessing Community Needs-Summer 2024

Week 9 Discussion

MOBILIZING COMMUNITIES AND SUPPORTING ENGAGEMENT THROUGH COALITION BUILDING

This Discussion will be available from Day 1 through Day 7 of this week. You are required to submit your initial post by Day 3. You are encouraged to post early. Once you have submitted your initial post, start responding to your colleagues. You must begin responding to your colleagues by no later than Day 5 and should continue to interact frequently with your colleagues through Day 7. Part of what makes a discussion a discussion and not a lecture is the back and forth, in-depth, animated interaction of at least two people.

If you start a topic and find that none of your peers are responding to your post, consider what you can do to get the conversation going. Include something that would elicit further thoughts and different opinions from peers. Validate your opinions with references and links to the sources you used so that your peers can read them for themselves. See your Discussion Rubric for specific grading requirements.

Community mobilization, a key strategy for increasing the demand for and use of health services, helps communities identify their own needs and respond to and address them. Gaining the participation of community members can help you, the health educator, raise awareness of both health issues at the community level and social and cultural issues that may promote or inhibit the use of information and services. A key strategy to promote community engagement is coalition building. A coalition is a group of individuals or professionals in a community that agrees to work toward a common cause and goal (University of Kansas, n.d.). Using this strategy as a process for community engagement can lead to increased leverage and visibility with community outreach, better use of resources, improved communication between relevant groups, and meaningful social change (University of Kansas, n.d.).

For this Discussion, select your own community or a community with which you are familiar. Choose a health topic that is an emerging issue in the community. Consider how you could organize a coalition around this topic to improve health outcomes in the long-term.

RESOURCES

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.

Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

WEEKLY RESOURCE

BY DAY 3

Briefly describe the health issue you chose and explain how it impacts your community. Then, identify five individual entities that would make up your coalition for the health issue chosen (this could be individuals or professionals, businesses, non-profit organizations, civic leaders etc...) For each entity, describe who they are, what their mission or contribution is, and why you chose them. Explain how each entity could contribute to community engagement throughout the Community Health Needs Assessment. Be sure to express the overarching goal and intent of the coalition. Also, describe three challenges that are common to coalition building and how you would aim to overcome them.

BY DAY 5

Remember to begin interacting with your colleagues in the Discussion and continue engaging through Day 7 by asking questions on your colleague's post or providing additional/alternative strategies for engaging people in your colleague's chosen community.

Support your work with specific citations from this week's Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate.

Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.