What guidance should be given to participants who are unfamiliar with the concept of strategic planning?
It is helpful if participants have a clear sense of what the end result should be. It does take practice and experience to fully understand the concept and value of strategic planning. It may be useful to appeal to participants’ common sense. It is impossible to address 100 issues at once! Helping participants view strategic planning from this perspective should help them realize that picking the most important issues as a group is necessary. What is the impact of the LPHSA on the selection of strategic issues? The LPHSA data was very significant for the selection of strategic issues in Livingston County. It helped to solidify the function of the public health system and what it means. The community can equate public health with the local public health department only. Helping them to understand that it is the “health of the public” will allow them to recognize their responsibility, and that of others in the community and within the MAPP process. How can I obtain funding to pay for ext
