Personal and Population Stress Management Plan (PPSMP)
Topic is: STRESS RELATED TO CARING FOR THEIR ELDERLY PARENTS
This exercise is designed for you to combine what you have learned in this class into a formal Health Studies plan to address a specific stressor impacting a specific population in your community. (Stress related to caring for the elderly parents)
You are expected to research the problems in your community, and from this research identify a group of people who you potentially would like to work with. You will identify one particular stressor this particular group is struggling with and create an action plan to help them address and reduce this stressor.
You have creative options for this final project. You may create a formal, educational presentation, create information packets, an awareness campaign, or present a plan for intervention in cooperation with a public heath agency. Whatever medium you choose for packaging, your final project must include all of the following elements:
1. Evidence of your research into your community must include all of the following materials (community is grand prairie, Texas )
a. Formal reports or research into the problems, resources, reasons etc.
b. Contact (phone or face –to-face interview) with at least one agency serving the population/group
2. Community resources you will point members of your target group to for continued support for reducing their stressor.
3. Identify and describe the group you wish to work with
4. Discuss why you wish to work with this group and what you hope to accomplish – your goal for your project
5. Identify and describe the stressor you will be addressing with the group
6. Present a plan you would use as a health educator (or person in your particular chosen field) to work with this group to reduce their stressor which will include all of the following elements:
a. Awareness building of the stressor and its particular impacts.
b. Awareness building of a strategy/plans to reduce this stressor
c. List of resources and suggestions for how to use these resources so a person from this group could continue working towards reducing or alleviating the stressor after meeting/working with you.
