Design a health promotion program for their local community (focus on the needs of your community) and develop a program pamphlet. To help identify the community needs, you may visit these websites for information on the health profiles and statistics in NY or NYC. 1. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/data-publications/profiles.page; 2. https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/chac/
1. The program needs to pertain to “health promotion and wellness” and be specific to and appropriate for occupational therapy involvement.
2. The program should be designed with a wellness focus. It can be specific to a general diagnosis group or population segment, but the focus must be on supporting/promoting wellness as it relates to the disease entity.
3. The program should be designed for a group or population, not for an individual or patient/client.
4. The program needs to be pertinent to occupational therapy and utilize current theoretical information (use the health promotion theories and OT theories discussed in class to guide your program development).
5. Create a program pamphlet or brochure to distribute to your potential program participants in the community. The page limit is 3 pages. Be creative. You can use any software program to create the pamphlet or a template from MS Word (attached to Classes).
Your pamphlet should include the following information:
– Name of the Wellness Program
– Population Being Served
– Specific Health Problem Being Addressed
– Any Risk Factors and Prevention
– Health Promotion Theories and Strategies/Methods
– Contexts and Environments the Program is Being Implemented
6. In 2 paragraphs, describe your community needs, how you believe your health promotion program can be beneficial to that community, and why you think the theories/models selected were appropriate.