The Adolescent Weight Management Program

Goals and Objectives Assignment (FA21)
Based on the program chosen in your Needs Assessment, identify program goals and objectives. Use the following format for this paper. Study chapters 5 and 6 in your text for completion of this paper.
1. Introduction: Using the information in chapter 5 of your text (Health Program Planning and Evaluation), state the working theory of the program you have chosen and briefly describe how it will lead to the desired outcome. State the program theory using both a process theory plan and effect theory plan. Using the chart on page 129 of your text state the intervention type and the level of the public health pyramid chosen for your program.
Program theory is a conceptual plan, with some details about what the program is and how it is expected to work. The comprehensive overview of how the program is to work has various names and forms, including logic model, casual model, outcome line, program model, and action theory. Regardless of the name, they all explain how the program will work.
The process theory sometimes called the theory of action, is made up of two components: the organizational plan and the service utilization plan. Process theory includes inputs, which are part of the organizational plan; Activities, which are part of the service utilization plan; And outputs, which are byproducts of the organizational and service utilization plans. The organizational plan encompasses the nature of the resources needed to implement and sustain the program. The service utilization plan, specifies how to reach the intended audience and deliver the prop grammatic interventions and services to that audience
Effect theory consists of the explanations of how the programmatic interventions will affect the casual factors and moderating or mediating factors of the health problem; It describes the relationship between the problematic interventions and the desired immediate and long-term outcomes for program participants. Three sets of relationships, or theories constitute the effect theory: the theory of casual/determinant factors, the theory of intervention mechanisms, and the theory of outcome to impact.
2. Using chapter 6 as a guide define your stated program goal and at least 3 objectives. Use the Process Objectives: TAAPS or and/or the Effect Objectives: TRACE elements to define your objectives.
Process objectives: TAAPS. The process objectives encapsulate the essentials of the process theories that describe how the program is delivered, focusing on the activities of the program staff members or the program participants. Process objectives ought to have the following elements: Timeframe, Amount of what Activities are done by which Participants/program Staff (TAAPS). TAAPS Objectives can be written in the general format for writing objectives; Process objectives would then state, “by when, which staff member will do what, to what extent”. TAAPS Objectives focus on the actions of participants or on the activities of the program staff members who don't directly cause the effect. Objectives can be identified for the capacity of the infrastructure, as in commonly done in terms of personal qualifications. Capacity objectives are best considered as objectives about the organizational plan.
Effect Objectives: TRACE. Outcome objectives. Effective objectives focus on benefits that program participants will experience as a result of receiving the program interventions. They have the following elements: in what Time frame, what portion of Recipients experience what Amount of which type of Change/Effect (TRACE). TRACE Objectives can be written in the general format for writing objectives; In effect, the objective would then state, “After how much time, how many recipients will experience what amount of which type of change or effect.” The amount refers to how much or what degree of change, which is anticipated by having received a sufficient dosage of the intervention. While T usually refers to the time frame for some objectives, it is more helpful to state the dosage of the intervention rather than the specific number of days, months, or years. The effect theory- most notably, the theories of cause/determinants, of the intervention, and of outcomes - provides the basis for stating interventions, outcome, and impact objectives, remembering that impacts are more appropriately called goals.
Ensure that these reflect your program theory. Use the figure on page 149 to help you achieve this. You may do this in a chart form.
3. Develop the target value and describe the data needs for this target value determined for your program.
Developing a rational target-setting strategy is preferred over guessing. Using a rational approach to setting targets leads to targets that are meaningful from a pragmatic perspective, that are achievable to the extent that they represent the outgrowth of the program theory, and that is based on empirical data.
4. Writing flow and content, grammar, spelling punctuation – free from errors.
The suggested length of this paper is 3-4 pages.