ObjectivesImportant
PointsAfter reading this chapter, you will be able to:
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List the objectives of the Komen Lay Health Advisor (LHA) education Program
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Create a list of personal short and long term goals
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Summarize the key step to developing your own goals
As a trained Lay Health Advisor, it is expected that in the coming year you will be able to reach the following specific short-term and long term goals
4Short Term Goals
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Recruit 20 Asian women to participate in
breast and cervical cancer screening promotion event
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Help a minimum of 2 Asian women 40 years old
or older get breast cancer screening
4Long Term Goals
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Develop a community-based, self-sustaining LHA infrastructure
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As a trained LHA, we hope you will continue making contributions to
improve the health status of Asian American communities into the future
4There are many strategies for achieving your goals.
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Learn the strategies for achieving your goals
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Let
us work together to insure that we have effective strategies to reach these long
term goals
The two-year Komen training program aims to
accomplish the following three specific objectives:
1. To develop,
pretest, conduct, and evaluate training programs designed specifically for
bilingual Asian LHAs, who are expected to help improve utilization of breast
cancer screening among Asian women.
2. To train 80 LHAs to be community change agents in
breast cancer screening promotion.
3. To recruit about 1,600
Asian women to participate in breast cancer screening promotion events, and help
at least 160 medically underserved Asian women over 40 years old get breast
cancer screening.
As one of the 80 trained LHAs, you are encouraged to contribute your efforts to realize the specific objectives addressed above. More specifically, it is hoped that in the coming 12 months, you will be able to recruit 20 Chinese women to participate in cancer screening promotion events and help a minimum of 20 BCCCP clients get Pap test and mammography screening.
The long-term goal of the training program is to develop a community-based, self-sustaining LHA infrastructure. We need to work with you, as a trained LHA, to develop the most effective support mechanism within the Asian community that will lead to a self-sustaining LHA structure in the future.
For the two-year project funded by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, HAAP has formed an LHA Task Force. The LHA task force will meet regularly and publish project newsletters quarterly for distribution to the LHAs, project staff, and Asian American community organizations. An annual meeting will be held and LHAs, their family members, friends, and community residents will be invited to attend.
It is hoped that after the two-year Komen project, an LHA infrastructure will become part of community organizations so that women’s health will be promoted regardless of external funding. The LHA Task Force can meet independently and continuously to support the LHA outreach strategies.
It is
a common experience that people like to have a goal but often turn their
supposed goal into a broken soap bubble. In
order to achieve your personal goals, it is very important that you up-date your
knowledge, improve your skills, and maintain your self-efficacy. By learning goal setting skills describe below, you will have
a map to success. “A map will
guide you straight to the achievement of all the goals you desire and deserve”
– this is a statement from a useful website made by Goal Pro, http://www.topachievement.com/tutorial/why.html.
It is important to have both short term
and long term goals. The short term
goals should contribute to the realization of the long term goals. Short term goals have the benefit of keeping you motivated,
maintaining focus, and having a sense of accomplishment and progress.
An outline of the important goal setting
steps from Goal Pro is below.
1.
Why Should You Set Goals
Through learning, and practicing, the step-by-step
routine of goal setting, your pipe dreams of today will become tomorrow's
reality.
2.
Where Do You Start
You can start by getting it into your mind that you
deserve success, and that success is something you can achieve. If you believe
you can reach what you define as success, and are prepared to determine the path
towards that success, you will succeed.
3.
Defining Your Objectives
In starting a goal-setting routine, we recommend you
set Objectives in one or two areas to begin. Take a separate piece of paper for
every Objective. Clearly write the Objective, and the date you want to achieve
the Objective by.
4.
Defining Your Reasons
On the pieces of paper below where you've written each
Objective, write your Reasons. The more Reasons you have the better. Just make
sure they really represent the Reasons you have for desiring something. By
constantly reviewing your Reasons, you will find yourself becoming more
motivated for striving towards your Objectives.
5.
Defining Your Major Goals
Once you've written
an Objective, and your compelling Reasons for achieving it, you must start
planning the route towards the Objective. And the first step is to set Major
Goals supporting the Objective.
6.
Defining Your Tasks
Just as we break large or long-term Objectives down
into smaller supporting elements called Major Goals, we further break our Major
Goals down into even smaller elements. These small elements are called Tasks,
and accomplishing them is what makes the practice of goal setting really work.
In order to accomplish what you set out to do, you
must develop an achievement mindset. there are three other Success Enhancements
we recommend you become familiar with: Success Questions, Success Stimulants,
and Your Success Creed.
8.
Writing Your Success Creed
Your Success Creed is a list of those values,
principles, and beliefs that are inherent and important to you.
9.
Writing Your Success Questions
Success Questions are exceedingly powerful, and should
be used continuously throughout the life of your goal-setting routine.
Success Stimulants are motivating statements that,
like Success Questions, help keep your mind focused on achievement.
You must also develop the success habit of regularly
reviewing all aspects of what we call your goal-setting routine.
By reviewing at the start of the week, you'll be
better able to schedule and plan your Tasks, which lessens your stress, ensures
successful Task completion, and even reduces the amount of time you'll be
spending on each Task.
