PACE-EH Action Planning

Beth Siddens, Health PlannerBarren River District Health DepartmentBowling Green, Kentuckyelizabethe.siddens@ky.gov270-781-8039, ext. 146

Your Community’s Issues

• EH Issue 1• EH Issue 2• EH Issue 3• EH Issue 4• EH Issue 5• EH Issue 6• EH Issue 7

• EH Issue 8

• EH Issue 9

• EH Issue 10

• EH Issue 11

• EH Issue 12

• EH Issue 13

Your Community’s Issues

• EH Issue 1• EH Issue 2• EH Issue 3• EH Issue 4• EH Issue 5• EH Issue 6• EH Issue 7

• EH Issue 8

• EH Issue 9

• EH Issue 10

• EH Issue 11

• EH Issue 12

• EH Issue 13

Top Five

Issues!

You have indicators & data….

• EH Issue 1• EH Issue 2• EH Issue 3• EH Issue 4• EH Issue 5• EH Issue 6• EH Issue 7

• EH Issue 8

• EH Issue 9

• EH Issue 10

• EH Issue 11

• EH Issue 12

• EH Issue 13

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ACTION!

Feeling alone, and not very powerful?

Where do we start?

How do we get the $$$ and people to do what we need to do?

Who will help us?

What can we do that will work?

How do we know we made a difference?

First, thorough analysis.

What are the basic problems with this issue?

What causes them?

What can be changed?

Who is affected?

Who affects the situation?

PACE-EH Handbook Step:

Contributing Factors

PACE-EH Handbook Step:

Identify possible interventions and preventive activities

Contributing factors helped show the many aspects of a problem or issue

Envir. Health Problem

They helped you take the problem apart, and…

Break it down

Choose one or two for action

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What do you want to change?

HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Good Behavior = Encourage

Bad Behavior = Discourage

Who are your target populations?

Get to know your target population.

Don’t assume you know what they need.

Don’t assume they will follow your orders!

Listen, and learn…

Quantitative Data numbers, specific facts

Qualitative Data

Helps fill in the ‘why’

What do they care about?

Families

Neighborhoods

Businesses

Employers

What do they worry about…?

What are the realities of their lives?

Confrontation up front builds mistrust very quickly.Don’t start by building walls.

Develop your messagesDeliver them so people will listen

Social Change Theory - my composite

External 1. Awareness of the problemExternal 2. Education on the issuesExternal 3. Learning about alternativesInternal 4. Seeing those alternatives as viableInternal 5. Deciding to adopt the new behaviorInternal 6. Succeeding in the new behavior External 7. Getting reinforcementInternal 8. Maintaining the behavior

Call in some experts on crafting messages, and message delivery.

What skills might someone else have?

Who has their attention already?

Sometimes other people can get messages through …or influence behavior faster than you.

Somebody’s already out there teaching them. Make her your

partner!

Finding partners

Who shares our goals?

Who may not share our goals, but does share our methods?

Who shares our resources?

What are people telling each other about your activities?

Word of Mouth is Powerful.

How do we know we’ve made a difference?