Curriculum: Leadership and Communities: Community Health Service Projects

Goal: Plan, implement, and evaluate an individual or team community service project.

Objectives:

  • Learn and use rapid appraisal techniques
  • Learn about and conduct surveys
  • Learn about and conduct key informant interviews
  • Access health and demographic data as the data relates to specific projects
  • Select and apply relevant community service frameworks to your project
  • Implement your project
  • Design and complete evaluation of your project
  • Present the progress and/or results of your project to LOCUS fellows and other audiences

Methods:

  • Presentations of projects to new first-year fellows by 2nd/3rd/4th year students
  • Introduction to projects and possible projects
  • Project brainstorming with project mentors and 2nd-4th year LOCUS fellows
  • Meetings with project mentors
  • Lecture/discussion/activities for each of these topics: survey techniques, health and demographic data, project evaluation techniques
  • Team and/or individual project
  • Self-evaluation of progress

Readings/ Resources:

  • Strongly encouraged:
    • To be announced
  • Optional:

Evaluation:

  • Attend and participate in LOCUS events
  • Solicit feedback from project mentors
  • Complete project
  • Conduct self-evaluation
  • Complete LOCUS survey

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