Needs Assessment Email     Imagine that you have recently been hired as a health promotion  specialist at a large company to coordinate their worksite wellness  program. You are the first person ever

Required Resources

Required Text

1. McKenzie, J. F., Neiger, B. L., & Thackeray, R.  (2017).  Planning, implementing, & evaluating health promotion programs: A primer (7th ed.).  Retrieved from https://www.vitalsource.com/

   1. 1. Chapter 4: Assessing Needs 

      2. Chapter 5: Measurement, Measures, Measurement Instruments, and Sampling 

      3. Chapter 13: Evaluation: An Overview

Articles

1. Coulon, S. M., Wilson, D. K., Griffin, S., St George, S. M., Alia, K. A., Trumpeter, N. N.,. . . Gadson, B. (2012). Formative process evaluation for implementing a social marketing intervention to increase walking among African Americans in the positive action for today's health trial. American Journal of Public Health, 102(12), 2315-21.

   • This article, one of the options for this week’s assignment, reviews the formative process evaluation methods and implementation dose, fidelity, and reach in the Positive Action for Today's Health trial.

2. Klesges, R. C., Talcott, W., Ebbert, J. O., Murphy, J. G., McDevitt-Murphy, M. E., Thomas, F., & ... Nicholas, R. A. (2013). Effect of the alcohol misconduct prevention program (AMPP) in Air Force technical training. Military Medicine, 178(4), 445-451. doi:10.7205/MILMED-D-12-00400. Retrieved from the EBSCO database.

   • This article, one of the options for this week’s assignment, reviews the impact evaluation results of the Alcohol Misconduct Prevention Program.

3. Mason-Jones, A., Mathews, C., & Flisher, A. J. (2011). Can peer education make a difference? Evaluation of a South African adolescent peer education program to promote sexual and reproductive health. AIDS and Behavior, 15(8), 1605-11. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-011-0012-1. Retrieved from the ProQuest database.

   • This article, one of the options for this week’s assignment, reviews the program evaluation of a government-led peer education program on the self-reported sexual health behavior and related psychosocial outcomes of adolescent students in public high schools in the Western Cape of South Africa.

4. Palm Reed, K. M., Hines, D. A., Armstrong, J. L., & Cameron, A. Y. (2015). Experimental evaluation of a bystander prevention program for sexual assault and dating violence. Psychology of Violence, 5(1), 95-102. doi:10.1037/a0037557

   • This article, one of the options for this week’s assignment, reviews the results of an experimental evaluation of a bystander prevention program aimed at decreasing risk factors associated with sexual and dating violence among college students.

Website

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012). A Framework for Program Evaluation (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from  http://www.cdc.gov/eval/framework/index.htm

   • The program evaluation framework website summarizes and organizes the steps and standards for effective program evaluation.

Recommended Resources

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1. McKenzie, J. F., Neiger, B. L., & Thackeray, R.  (2017).  Planning, implementing, & evaluating health promotion programs: A primer (7th ed.). Retrieved from https://www.vitalsource.com/ 

   • Chapter 15: Data Analysis and Reporting

Websites

1. National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services. (2013). Summer school 2013: How to write effective professional email (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from https://www.training.nih.gov/summer_school_2013_writing_effective_professional_e-mail

   • This website provides some helpful tips for writing professional emails.

2. Trochim, W. M. (2006). The Research Methods Knowledge Base, 2nd Edition (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/

   • The Research Methods Knowledge Base is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods.

3. University of Kansas, Work Group for Community Health and Development. (2014). Assessing community needs and resources. Community Tool Box (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://ctb.ku.edu/en/assessing-community-needs-and-resources 

   • This toolkit provides guidance for conducting assessments of community needs and resources.

4. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Writing Center. (2014). Effective email communication (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/effective-e-mail-communication/

   • This handout is intended to help students, faculty, and University professionals learn to communicate more effectively using e-mail.

5. WikiHow. (n.d.). How to write a proposal (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Proposal 

   • This article discusses how to write a persuasive proposal.

Supplemental Materials

1. Mattke, S., Hangshen, L., Caloyeras, J. P., Huang, C. Y., Van Busum, K. R., Khodyakov, D., Shier, V. Workplace wellness programs study: Final report (Links to an external site.). (2013). Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. Retrieved from http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR200/RR254/RAND_RR254.sum.pdf

   • This report provides an overview of the characteristics of effective workplace wellness programs.

2. East Midlands Public Health Observatory. (2012). Health, Work and Wellbeing. Defining the priorities: Workplace Health Needs Assessment for Employers (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://www.empho.org.uk/Download/Public/12735/1/Workplace_HNA_for_Employers%20Feb2012.pdf

   • This report discusses a validated instrument to conduct an employee health needs assessment and is the basis for the fictitious employee wellness needs assessment results provided in week 3.