St. Mary’s Supper Club Diabetes Education Program

This piece is a hypothetical program plan for a diabetes education program for older adults ages 65-74 with type 2 diabetes in the Athens-Clarke County Area of Georgia. This piece was created for a Program Planning course, but is also relevant to my work at St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens, GA. To view the document please click >here<.

This piece exemplifies my ability to:

• Find past examples of health programming that succeeded or failed
• Develop a program that addresses a gap in current community health needs and overall literature
• Plan out the activities and staffing needed to create a program
• Budget for staff, activities, and facilities needed
• Use health-promotion theories to base a program’s future success
• Use marketing techniques for a new program
• Create an evaluation plan for a program

Completing this program plan gave me the skills to confidently develop and implement a health promotion program in the community setting. I hope to one day see a similar program implemented in the Athens-Clarke County Area.