Design and implement organizational and/or community assessments

Below is our paper from our group project. “Empowering Change: Addressing Homelessness, Unemployment, and Substance Abuse Among Women in Hamilton County” by Connie Bradshaw, Kaitlyn Deaux, Madison Griswold, and Amy Mejias for SOCW 612: Advanced Administrative Practice: Program Development.  This section of the paper included the background of the problem, current programs in place, a literature review with evidence based practices, and a Needs Assessment Research plan which can be found in the link to the paper.  Using our social work skills and knowledge of needs assessments and our research skills, we came up with our plan using the theoretical foundation of Community-Based Participatory Research which primarily consisted of connecting with organizations in the Chattanooga area that serve the same population to gain insight of the needs of this population as well as conduct a needs assessment on the population themselves, using competence and valuing the dignity and worth of the person.  We used the cognitive process of evaluating and analyzing and the affective process of valuing.

The full paper can be found here.