a4[-6218 – Advocating for Lasting Change

Advocating for Lasting Change
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Advocating for Lasting Change assignment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise, an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assignment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assignment. Do not turn in this document as your assignment submission.
Change Proposal Presentation
Develop and record a video presentation to policymakers from the appropriate governing body or regulatory agency requesting policy and financial support for your proposed change. Draw on your work in the previous assignments and consolidate lessons learned.
Explain why proposed changes to a health care system require policy support to ensure positive, systemic change and to overcome present challenges.
What types of policies are applicable to the changes you are proposing? For example, federal, state, and municipal governments; community agencies; and service providers, including health care organizations.
Why are specific policy changes and funding needed?
What assumptions held by policymakers, members of the community or health care providers underlie current policy?
Provide compelling evidence that proposed changes to a health care system will produce the intended outcomes.
How are existing policies affecting current and future outcomes?
How will your proposed changes bring about the desired change?
What evidence do you have to support your conclusions about the efficacy of the proposed changes?
Provide broad budget estimates to fund specific capital or human resource outlays that are important to the success of a proposed change.
What resources are needed to implement and sustain your proposed changes?
What data and information do you have that supports your budget estimates?
Outline a plan for leading transformational, evidence-based change in an organization.
What is your vision for change?
How will your proposed changes affect your organization?
How will you address barriers to change?
What changes in organizational culture are needed to support and sustain change?
How will you ensure ongoing and effective communication?
Who are the key individuals in your organization who are accountable for implementing and sustaining the change?
What evidence supports your plan?
Assess the potential future for wellness, health, and improved overall care and the role of visionary leaders in achieving the desired goals.
Note: Explore the website of HealthyPeople.gov. Use it as a guide when examining the potential future for wellness, healthy people, and improved overall care.
What is your vision for a healthy community?
What are the risks and benefits inherent in your vision?
What leadership style will be effective in driving change to accomplish health and wellness goals?
Cultivate stakeholder interest in and support for the proposed changes to a community health care system.
Who are your stakeholders?
How might they influence your proposal for change?
Articulate your vision for change clearly and concisely.
Anticipate and address stakeholder concerns and acknowledge potential risks.
What objections might you anticipate and how would you counter them?
What evidence supports your claims?
Develop slides that augment a multimedia presentation.
Refer to the presentation design tips below.
Argue persuasively to obtain policy and financial support from policymakers for a proposed community health care change.
Express your main points, arguments, and conclusions coherently and convincingly.
Address the anticipated needs and concerns of your audience.
Rehearse your presentation before making your final recording.
Support assertions, arguments, propositions, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence.
Integrate relevant and credible evidence from 3–5 peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications.
Is your supporting evidence clear and explicit?
How or why does particular evidence support a claim?
Will your reader see the connection?
Did you summarize, paraphrase, and quote your sources appropriately?