Oftentimes, social workers must justify the development of a new program to stakeholders through a formal needs assessment that generates scientific data about needs and gaps in the agency or community. They can use existing data from their agency, practice, or community setting to assess whether clients are receiving the help they need. They can also gather information from their clients through interviews and surveys, 

In this assignment  you informally observed a problem in your agency or community setting and critically thought about an appropriate program to address the problem. Now, in the Assignment, you consider how to support the need for your proposed program more scientifically.

TO PREPARE

• Review and refine your potential program based on the MENTAL HEALTH

• Consider  clients-older adult will be included in the program and why.
• Review the methods for gathering information from clients who is older adult and other stakeholders, including interviews, surveys, focus groups, etc.
• Determine which two methods would give you the most pertinent and reliable information to justify the development and implementation of your program.

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Submit a 1- to 2-page paper expanding on and justifying the MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM-relevant to the Care of Older adult 

Include: Client include OLDER ADULTH  with mental health issues. 

• A brief description of the program to be developed
• Criteria for inclusion in the program (which clients and why) older adult with mental health issues
• Justification for the proposed program. What two best methods would you use to gather credible information to support the need for your program (e.g., interview, surveys, focus groups, etc.). Why? Be sure to state from whom you would gather the information.

Use the Learning Resources and peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles to support your paper. Make sure to include appropriate APA citations and a reference list.  

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References

Dudley, J. R. (2020). Social work evaluation: Enhancing what we do (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Chapter 4, “Common Types of Evaluations”

Read “Common Program Evaluations” (pp. 78–89).

Chapter 5, “Focusing an Evaluation” (pp. 96–111)

Chapter 6, “Needs Assessments” (pp. 115–147)

Oftentimes, social workers must justify the development of a new program to stakeholders through a formal needs assessment that generates scientific data about needs and gaps in the agency or community. They can use existing data from their agency, practice, or community setting to assess whether clients are receiving the help they need. They can also gather information from their clients through interviews and surveys, 

In this assignment  you informally observed a problem in your agency or community setting and critically thought about an appropriate program to address the problem. Now, in the Assignment, you consider how to support the need for your proposed program more scientifically.

TO PREPARE

• Review and refine your potential program based on the MENTAL HEALTH

• Consider  clients-older adult will be included in the program and why.
• Review the methods for gathering information from clients who is older adult and other stakeholders, including interviews, surveys, focus groups, etc. 
• Determine which two methods would give you the most pertinent and reliable information to justify the development and implementation of your program.

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Submit a 1- to 2-page paper expanding on and justifying the MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM-relevant to the Care of Older adult 

Include: Client include OLDER ADULTH  with mental health issues. 

• A brief description of the program to be developed 
• Criteria for inclusion in the program (which clients and why) older adult with mental health issues
• Justification for the proposed program. What two best methods would you use to gather credible information to support the need for your program (e.g., interview, surveys, focus groups, etc.). Why? Be sure to state from whom you would gather the information.

Use the Learning Resources and peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles to support your paper. Make sure to include appropriate APA citations and a reference list.  

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References

Dudley, J. R. (2020). Social work evaluation: Enhancing what we do (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Chapter 4, “Common Types of Evaluations”

Read “Common Program Evaluations” (pp. 78–89).

Chapter 5, “Focusing an Evaluation” (pp. 96–111)

Chapter 6, “Needs Assessments” (pp. 115–147)

 Psychiatric Hospital (counseling setting)

Assignment Description

Think of a counseling setting with which you are familiar or would like to work in the future. This could be a counseling practice, a marriage and family therapy setting, a school, or another setting…… **PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL** 

Outline a plan for conducting a program evaluation. Include the level of detail that would be present in a short proposal to the administrator in charge of approving a program evaluation. 
Length: 2–3 pages, not counting cover page and reference page Number of references: Minimum of three peer-reviewed empirical journal articles which are no more than seven years old.