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Specific Aims
Program Planning
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Need direction?
  • If you do not know where you are going, then any
    road will doand you may end up someplace where
    you do not want to be, or you may eventually end
    up where you want to be, but after wasted time
    and effort.
  • If you do not know where you are going, how will
    you know when you have arrived?

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A note on Specific Aims
  • Developed programs normally have mission
    statements that offer a focus for the program.
    Some grant proposals will require the use of the
    term specific aims that provide general
    direction for a project.
  • Sometimes referred to as a program overview or
    program aim, a mission statement is a short
    narrative that describes the general focus of the
    program.

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Three components
Mission Statement or Specific Aim
Program Goals
Objectives
Specific Aims
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Mission Statement
  • a public declaration of organizational beliefs,
    values, aspirations, and position, and it sets an
    attitudinal posture aimed at success
  • Describes the intent of the program and may
    reflect the philosophy behind it
  • Helps to guide planners in the development of
    program goals and objectives

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Examples of Mission Statements
  • The mission of he Walkup Health Promotion Program
    is to provide a wide variety of primary
    prevention activities for residents of the
    community.
  • This program is aimed at helping patients and
    their families to understand and cope with
    physical and emotional changes associated with
    recovery following cancer surgery.

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Specific Aim
  • The Specific Aim describes the intent of the
    program and may reflect its philosophy. It will
    help guide planners in the development of the
    program goals and objectives. A recognized
    program may already have a Mission Statement
    therefore, for the purpose of this class, it may
    be more realistic to develop a specific aim
    geared toward the current class project. Specific
    aims are concise, and consist of one or two
    detailed sentences.

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Impact
  • This section will demonstrate the understanding
    of the community partners direction for the
    project. The reader should have clear
    understanding of the philosophy or the intention
    of the program or project reading this section.

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Example
  • The specific aim of Project Play is the raise
    sufficient money through fundraisers, donations,
    and grants to complete the construction of a new
    playground at Falls City Elementary School.

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Program Goals
  • a future event toward which a committed endeavor
    is directed
  • a broad timeless statement of a long-range
    program purpose
  • general statements of intent
  • State who will be affected and what will change
  • Use words such as improve, increase, promote,
    protect, minimize, prevent, and reduce

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Examples of Program Goals
  • To reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease
    in the employees of the Smith Company.
  • The survival rate of breast cancer patients will
    be increased through the optimal use of community
    resources.
  • To prevent the spread of HIV in the youth of
    Indiana.

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Objectives
  • Steps to be taken in pursuit of a goal
  • Outline in measurable terms the specific changes
    that will occur in the priority population at a
    given point in time as a result of exposure to
    the program
  • The bridge between needs assessment and a planned
    intervention

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Different Levels of Objectives
  • Process/Administrative
  • daily tasks, activities, and work plans
  • Learning
  • awareness, knowledge, attitude, and skill
    development/acquisition
  • Action/Behavioral
  • adherence, compliance, consumption patterns,
    coping, preventative actions, self-care, and
    utilization
  • Environmental
  • social, physical, psychological
  • Outcome/Program
  • health status, social benefits, risk factors, or
    quality of life

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Elements of an Objective
  • Outcome (What)
  • Defined as action, behavior, or something else
    that will change
  • as a result of the program
  • apply, argue, build, compare, demonstrate,
    evaluate, exhibit,
  • judge, perform, reduce, spend, state, and test
  • Conditions (By when)
  • upon completion, as a result, by (timeframe),
    after, following,
  • when (asked), during
  • Criterion (How much)
  • When outcome has been achieved, or how much
    change will occur
  • with, as presented, according to, , using the
    technique
  • Priority Population (Who)
  • Who will change
  • , all, those

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Examples of Objectives
  • Who will experience how much of what change by
    when?
  • One year after the formal exercise classes have
    been completed, 40 of those who completed 80 of
    the classes will still be involved in a regular
    aerobic exercise program.
  • By the year 2010, heart disease deaths will be
    reduced to no more than 100 per 100,000 in the
    residents of Franklin county.

Specific Aims
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