Healthy People 2020 Map

CDC's Healthy Community Program Success Story Worksheet (modified version) Thank you for choosing to share your story! This worksheet will help you gather and organize information. As you read each question, imagine you are telling a friend about your program or strategy. What is the first thing you would tell them that answers the question? Consider this a summary of your policy, system, or environmental change strategy that you'll reference later. Keep your answers short, no more than a sentence if you can.

Do you have a name for the policy, system, or environmental change strategy you're trying to implement? What risk factors does it address? It addresses misinformation among school children regarding tabacco use and its popularity by raising children's self-esteem to a high enough level that they overcome unhealthy peer pressure to smoke. What kind of change are you trying to implement? The goal is to reduce the amount of young people smoking by 60% by the year 2020. 4.

Who participates? Or rather, who participated in the passing of the policy? Who are your coalition members? This coalition is co-led by the department of health and the department of education. 5. Who does the strategy benefit most? Or, to put it another way, who is your target audience? The target audience is school-aged children. 6. Where are you trying to implement the policy, system, or environmental change? Within a corporation or school system? Across a region (city, state)? The program will be implemented state-wide in all the public schools. 7.

Why did you choose to target this policy, system, or environmental change? This change is essential to reducing the amount of 20 and older tabacco users. By cutting off the misconceptions of tabbacco use when children are young, they will be less likely to succum to peer pressure as teens. Challenge 1. What is the challenge that your community faces that your policy, system, or environmental change strategy addresses? The community faces the challenge of high teen smoking rates. 2.

What might happen if the challenge is not addressed? How does it affect your community in the short-term? The long-term? In the short-term, the numbers of teens smoking will continue to rise, resulting is higher amounts of adult smokers. In the long-term, this results in much higher amounts of people with heart disease and lung cancer. 3.

Were there any barriers encountered during development or implementation of your policy, system, or environmental change strategy? What were they and how did you overcome them? The greatest barrier came from the schools because public schools are already under such pressure regarding time. This was overcome by.