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Develop Plans
Overview
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It is important to develop and update Plans that provide the foundation for all subsequent program activities.
There are three major activities in this section:
- Developing the State HDSP Plan.
- Developing the HDSP Work Plan.
- Developing the HDSP Evaluation Plan.
Expected Outcomes
After completing the "Develop Plans" component of the Roadmap, you will produce the following products:
- A State HDSP Plan with specific objectives for addressing and promoting prevention of heart disease, stroke, and other related risk factors.
- A Work Plan outlining your HDSP program activities that support the State HDSP Plan.
- An Evaluation Plan to measure program achievements.
Skills and Competencies
The skills needed to address this program area are adapted from the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) Competencies for Chronic Disease Practice (PDF, 73 K):
- Implementing processes to identify common goals and outcomes.
- Collaborating with partners on data collection and interpretation.
- Identifying individual and organizational responsibilities within the context of public health services.
- Evaluating data integrity and comparability.
- Monitoring and evaluating data to identify burden trends, and outcomes.
- Contributing to development, implementation, and monitoring of organizational performance standards.
- Developing activity-based and line-item budgets.
- Prioritizing program strategies and budget initiatives.
- Identifying and using public health data as a tool to develop and prioritize community based interventions or policies for chronic disease
- Applying principles of cultural appropriateness to program design.
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