The purpose of this assignment is to assist students in exploring a social problem or issue with a specific community or target population and planning intervention efforts. This assignment creates a basis for knowledge in planning and evaluating a macro intervention that students can use for the RFP.
In this assignment, students will give a 5- to 7-minute recorded video presentation using PowerPoint or Google Slides.
The video can be recorded in Zoom and uploaded or submitted as a YouTube video link.
Address the following within the presentation: Population, Need, and Rationale
Identify a geographical community or specific target population and identify an area of community change that is important to you as a social work practitioner. Provide context and data to educate your audience about the community/population and the specific change effort.
Provide a rationale for the focus—your own role, why the community, target population, or area of change has been selected. Demonstrate an understanding of cultural humility and power dynamics as you consider this macro change effort.
Innovation, Evidence, and Past Intervention
Provide an overview of scholarly research regarding your identified community or specific target population. Outline what you learned from your review of the literature that helps to provide context for the problem or area for change? What evidence-based interventions have worked in other communities or populations? Is there an applicable way to translate these interventions to other communities or populations? What theoretical perspectives drive work in this area? Summarize the scholarly literature in a short overview that helps to provide a broader context for your audience and demonstrates that you understand how to utilize the literature to inform practice.
Macro Intervention and Planning
Identify a macro intervention you’d like to create/utilize within the community or target population, as defined by this use of the literature/evidence. Briefly discuss the following:
Engagement: Stakeholders, your role, community tensions, and opportunities, political context, what you know, and what you still need to know.
Assessment: What is the target for change (or the problem)? What does positive change look like? What does the community or target population want/need? How are voices being heard? Based on your assessment, what is an intervention strategy that you can see working to affect change in this area? Why?
Discuss the intervention strategy in depth. Who is involved? Who would need to be engaged or used for collaboration to carry out the macro intervention you have identified? Who are the key stakeholders in the change effort and how can they assist?
What assets, strengths, and resources are available to help create change and how will change happen?
What theory (or theories) is guiding this intervention?
What are the specific goals and objectives of the proposed macro invention and how will it be measured and evaluated?
How sustainable is the intervention, and what would the timeline for implementation look like?
What resources are needed for the proposed intervention, and where can they be accessed?
What are the potential challenges to the successful implementation?
Conclude with a persuasive needs statement about this project that could be an “elevator pitch” for a potential funder/stakeholder.
GRADING GUIDELINES
You will be graded on the clarity of your ideas as well as the integration of evidence from readings and ideas presented in class. This assignment is worth 15% of your final course grade
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