The Planning Guide

Developing an Effective Planning Process: A Guide for Local MCH Programs

The purpose of this manual is to assist local public health agencies in conducting a needs-based, rational planning and resource allocation process. Although the processes described are generic to all planning efforts at the local level, the case examples are specific to Maternal and Child Health Programs that are required to conduct a formal needs assessment and planning process every five years in order to receive their annual block grant funds.

Chapters	All files are in pdf format. Some appendices have editable worksheets in MS Word format for your convenience.
I	Building a Constituency for Community Assessment and Data Based Planning: The Role of Coalitions and Collaboratives in the Development of an MCH Plan [1]
II	Community Health Assessment: Identifying Maternal, Child Health Needs and Setting Priorities [2]
III	Conducting a Formal Problem Analysis and Identifying Effective Interventions [3]
IV	Developing Objectives, Performance Measures, and an Action Plan [4]
V	Program Evaluation and Performance Monitoring [5]
VI	Putting It All Together: Creating a Planning Document [6]
VII	Available Tools for Public Health Core Data Functions [7]
Appendices
II-A	Public Health Indicators and Their Use [8]
II-B	California County Data Resources on the Web [9]
II-C	Tool for Prioritizing Health Indicators [10] (worksheet [11]) (word)
II-D	Prioritizing Indicators: One County's Results [12]
II-E	Criteria for Evaluation of Data Sources [13]
II-F	Survey Development [14]
II-G	An Introduction to Qualitative Method [15]
II-H	Title V Indicator Template for Prenatal Care in the First Trimester [16]
II-I	Facilitator’s Guide to Problem Prioritization [17] (worksheet [18]) (word)
III-A	Overview of Confidence Intervals [19]
III-B	Calculating and Interpreting Attributable Risk and Population Attributable Risk [20]
III-C	Community Health and Social Services Resource Matrix [21] (worksheet [22]) (word)
IV-A-1	Example Logic Model: Community Plan to Promote Breastfeeding [23]
IV-A-2	Example Logic Model: Provider Education Program to Promote Breastfeeding [24]
IV-B-1	Program Action Plan Matrix [25]
IV-B-2	Program Action Plan Matrix: Definitions [26]
IV-C	Program Timeline [27]
V-A	Evaluation Design [28]
V-B-1	Example: Logic Model Tool [29] (worksheet [30]) (word)
V-B-2	How to Use a Logic Model: Step by Step [31]
V-C	Data Collection Worksheet [32] (worksheet [33]) (word)