Using the Riverbend City: Strategic Planning for Community Needs media piece you completed in this week’s study, focus on the public health issues and challenges each character described.

Using the Riverbend City: Strategic Planning for Community Needs media piece you completed in this week’s study, focus on the public health issues and challenges each character described. The community is clearly at a critical inflection point where strategic approaches should be enacted to address the community’s pressing public health challenges. But where and how should the director of the local public health department begin?

Drawing from key learnings in your readings, identify and describe three of the six approaches to planning you feel the director of the local public health department should consider. Specifically reference the community members’ concerns in your response. For each approach, provide a definition, the condition(s) for which it is best applied, and why you selected the approach.

Remember to cite any sources and refer to the FEM guidelines as you prepare your post.

Response Guidelines

Read and respond to your peers’ posts according to FEM guidelines. Address the following:

Assess the three approaches identified by your peers.

Consider the dynamic between the characters that was portrayed in the Riverbend City media piece.

Drawing on evidence from your readings, describe the positive and negative implications for two of the three planning approaches your colleague suggested.

Be sure to consider the benefits and barriers based on the information you currently know about Riverbend City.

Resources

Discussion Participation Rubric.