3-2FinalProjectMilestoneOne_ProblemIdentificationDraft.pdf
3-2 Final Project Milestone One: Problem Identification Draft
For Milestone One, you will create a concise problem statement that develops your program and grant proposal. You will identify only the problem statement for this milestone, not your program and proposed solution.
For additional details, please refer to the Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric and the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric.
MilestoneOneGuidelinesandRubric.html.zip
Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric.html
PSY 638 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric
Prompt
For Milestone One, you are creating a clear, concise problem statement that develops your program and grant proposal. This statement involves identifying and explaining a specific need for your community’s children. You will submit your problem statement as a draft of the Problem Identification section of your grant proposal. The statement should appear in your introductory paragraph to set the context for the project, including the location and a description of the problem you will address. You will also describe the impact on your community and the current resources available to address the problem.
Think about the professional environment you will seek upon graduation and a potential problem within that professional environment your recommended program could solve. Some examples of professional settings and grant proposal problems include:
School/Educational Setting Orchard Middle School has more than 50 at-risk students whose reading performance directly affects their self-esteem and negative behavior issues. The school submitted a grant proposal to support the development of a program to help all students with poor reading skills learn to read at grade level. The program would also help them increase their reading speed, comprehension, reading attention span, and overall sense of worth, esteem, and achievement. Studies have shown those who do better in school fare better with stable mental health.
Outpatient Mental Health The Open Arms Family Center requested a grant of $250,000 to contribute to the start-up funds for a family homeless shelter and mental health services. As an innovative, all-inclusive shelter program, the center aims to provide for 10 families with children under five experiencing homelessness. The center is committed to its mission of decreasing the overall number of homeless families in the Metro Boston area and working to break the cycle of homelessness.
Community Outreach Healthy Tomorrows aims to stimulate innovative, community-based programs that employ prevention strategies to promote access to healthcare for children and their families nationwide. Funding supports direct-service projects, not research projects. Healthy Tomorrows supports family-centered initiatives that implement innovative approaches for focusing resources to promote community; define preventive child health and developmental objectives for vulnerable children and their families, especially those with limited access to quality health services; foster cooperation among community organizations, agencies, and families; involve pediatricians and other pediatric, child, and adolescent mental health professionals; build community and statewide partnerships among professionals in health, education, social services, government, and business to achieve self-sustaining programs to ensure healthy children and families. Healthy Tomorrows requested a grant proposal for $10,000 to conduct a needs analysis for a meal-delivery program to serve its less-mobile community members.
Specifically, address the following critical elements in your milestone assignment:
Problem Identification: Research and identify resources for a specific developmental, behavioral, or diagnostic need for your community’s children or adolescents.
Prevalence: Determine a necessary program or service by examining the current needs of your community’s children or adolescents and using the standards established by the American Psychiatric Association.
What issue have you chosen to address? Who is affected? What data will you use to point to the prevalence of this issue? Begin your paper with a clear and concise identification of the problem as it exists within your community. Support the problem identification with published data, links, or citations.
What is the necessary service or program? How will it address the needs you have examined?
Assessment of Resources: Evaluate available and needed resources in your community.
Evaluate the resources available for providing a program or service like the one you identified. This is an essential part of justifying a grant request. You must clearly articulate the limitations of current services and describe the service gap your proposal would fill. Support your assessment of resources with published data, links, or citations.
Determine necessary but unavailable resources and explain their importance in providing the identified program or service.
Impact of the Problem: Describe the impact of the problem on individuals, families, and the community. Construct an impact statement based on the prevalence of the identified issue and the lack of community resources. This section is where you will justify the urgency or need for your proposal by describing the potential impacts of not addressing the problem proactively.
Articulate how the lack of the identified program or service impacts the community.
How is the lack of available resources exacerbating the issue?
What to Submit
Your paper must be submitted as a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least five sources cited in APA format. Organize your submission so that it has three separate headings that address each of the following issues as described above: Prevalence, Assessment of Resources, and Impact of the Problem. Use appropriate formatting according to APA style (7th ed.), including a separate title page and a separate reference page. The title page and reference page do not count toward your page total for this assignment.
Milestone One Rubric
Criteria
Proficient (100%)
Needs Improvement (75%)
Not Evident (0%)
Value
Problem Identification Prevalence
The submission provides published data that evidences the identified problem is a prevalent problem/need for the community
The submission provides limited data to support that the identified problem is a prevalent problem/need for the community
The submission lacks credible research data to support that the identified problem is a prevalent problem/need for the community
30
Problem Identification Assessment of Resources
The submission provides evidence in the form of links, citations, and a description of local resources for their limited capacity to address the identified problem
The submission provides evidence in the form of links, citations, and a description of local resources, yet it may lack in the examination of the resources’ capacity to address the identified problem
The submission provides limited evidence in the form of links, citations, and a description of local resources without addressing the resources’ capacity to address the identified problem
30
Problem Identification Impact of Problem
The submission provides research-supported evidence of how the identified problem will impact individuals, families, and the community if it is not addressed proactively
The submission provides research evidence of the general impact of the problem without considering the specific community
The submission discusses the general impact of the problem without considering the specific community or providing research evidence to support the impact of the identified problem
30
Articulation of Response
The submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization
The submission has some errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively affect readability and articulation of main ideas
The submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas
10
Total:
100%
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