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This paper examines the program planning processes employed at the North Carolina Division of Public Health (NCDPH). Through the use of a sixtyfour question Likert-scale survey, two major research questions were addressed: 1) How often do program planners employ certain elements of formal program planning; 2) How important program planners feel those elements of program planning are. Findings from the survey suggest that formal program planning is not occurring with regularity, even though program planners believe that formal program planning is important. The results of this survey were then coupled with prior research conducted on the same population regarding the barriers and facilitators to performing formal program planning. By merging these data, the researcher was able to make certain inferences as to why certain program planning elements were occurring with greater frequency than others. These data also provided the necessary information to develop the foundation for initial interventions to improve the formal program planning processes at the NCDPH. Two interventions are suggested as a result ofthis survey. |
