EPRC’s Program Planning Training Series
The EPRC provides communities with trainings on the development, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs. Four major topics are covered including: Grant Writing, Community Assessment, Program Planning, and Program Evaluation. For each of these trainings, the focus is on practical instruction and application. The goal is to equip public health practitioners with the knowledge and skills to carry out an effective health promotion program. Training participants include community members, members of faith-based organizations, professionals from public health agencies, schools, and hospitals.
Intended Audience: Public health practitioners and other public health stakeholders. The audience for these trainings includes members of community-based organizations who want to learn more about the program planning process and plan to design and implement programming to improve public health.
Program Planning Part 1: From Needs to Goals
This 1.5-hour webinar provides an introduction for community organizations who want to learn about the program planning cycle. Through the webinar participants learn how to: describe the program planning cycle, identify health determinants and community needs, develop program goals and objectives, and describe how to use theory to inform the program. The strategies and skills presented in this workshop can be applied in any organization that aims to plan and implement public health programming.
Program Planning Part 2: Design and Implementation
This 1.5-hour webinar provides part two of our introduction to the program planning cycle. Through the webinar participants learn how to: find evidence-based interventions and strategies, apply theory and evidence-based strategies into your program design, create a logic model of the program for planning and evaluation, and develop a workplan. The strategies and skills presented in this workshop can be applied in any organization that aims to plan and implement public health programming.
Archive - Past Program Planning Trainings
Grant Writing: Why Grant Proposals Fail
This interactive one-day workshop provides tips for community organizations who want to increase their success in obtaining grant funding. It covers the common pitfalls of unsuccessful grant proposals and provides simple solutions to many of the common grant writing mistakes.
Grant Writing: What to Say and How to Say it
This interactive one-day workshop is the next level of instruction for professionals who are familiar with the grant writing process and are seeking to improve their ability to identify sources of funding, collect local data and craft a story in a way that appeals to grant reviewers.
Is Your Grant a Winner?
This webinar discusses the common pitfalls of the grant proposal review and submission process, describes the different types of grant review processes, and helps you determine what grant reviewers look for in a grant proposal.
Get Ready, Get Set, PREPARE: Planning for Successful Grant Proposals
The Planning for Successful Grant Proposals webinar teaches members of community-based organizations how to prepare for writing successful grant proposals.
Community Assessment: Setting the Stage for Successful Programs
This interactive one-day workshop teaches members of community-based organizations how to conduct a community assessment.
Program Planning: Ingredients for Success
This interactive workshop teaches members of community-based organizations how to plan for successful programs. The training provides professionals with the skills, tools, and resources to improve their ability to plan for health promotion programs designed to increase healthy behaviors.