Category: Social Science homework help

TOPIC: Needs Assessment
Throughout the remainder of the course, you will work on developing a training solution for an organization of your choosing. You should look through all the remaining assignments in the course to familiarize yourself with the requirements of the final project. 
Your final deliverable will be a video of you conducting the training and with all the deliverables that you developed throughout the course.
Find an organization that you have access to (church, work, a volunteer org., business) that you can develop a training for.
Identify a performance problem or issue that exists within the organization.
Conduct a needs assessment to figure out what is causing the performance problem or issue you identified.
Use Exhibit 1.1 on the Needs-Assessment Process in Chapter 1 of the textbook to shape the structure of your needs assessment. Also ask questions and gather information on the intended training audience’s current level of knowledge and skill related to the issue or performance problem you are trying to solve.
In 750-1,000 words produce a written report of your needs assessment findings. Follow the structure found in Chapter 1 for “The Written Report.” Be detailed and specific about how you conducted your needs assessment, what you found out, and why you came to the conclusions you did.
Also describe where the intended learner’s current knowledge, attitudes, and skills are regarding the issue or performance problem you are trying to solve.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite for similarity scores and plagiarism check.
RESOURCES
Read Chapter 1 in The Trainer’s Handbook. https://bibliu.com/app/#/view/books/9781118933145/
Read “Conducting a Needs Assessment,” from the USDA website. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/nedc/?cid=stelprdb1185741
Read “From Needs Assessment to Needs Analysis,” by Christensen, from Performance Improvement (2018).
Read the “Statement on the Integration of Faith and Work” from Grand Canyon University’s One Foundation (2015) in preparation for assignments and discussion questions.
Read “User Needs Analysis and Development of Priorities for Life Cycle Impact Assessment,” by Stewart & Jolliet, from The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2004). 
Read “Training Needs Assessment of Health Care Professionals in a Developing Country: The Example of Saint Lucia,” by Gaspard & Che-Ming, from BMC Medical Education (2016).
Read “Problem-Based Learning: A Viable Approach in Leadership Development?” by Yeo, from The Journal of Management Development (2007).

  
· Explain Ramon’s experience of invisible disabilities.
· What other identities may be intersecting with ability to contribute to further oppression for Ramon?
· Explain how you would approach Ramon’s case as a social worker. How would you intervene or empower the client?

 
Week 4 Assignment – Health Care Human Resources Management
Overview
Company mergers are very busy and challenging times for corporate leadership. The role that HR plays during a merger is often complex and far reaching. In this assignment, you write an executive brief that considers aspects of how an HR department might prioritize and operate to support the union of two companies. 
Preparation
How to Brief an Executive
There is no single correct way to brief an executive or other stakeholder. The final deliverable is your choice, but effective briefs have common elements; they should be clear, concise, relevant, well-structured, and provide decision-making information. Here are a couple of resources you may use to get started:

How to Brief an Executive: A podcast from the Communications Guys. 
How to Write a Formal Business Report (With Examples): Hints from Indeed.
Scenario
Imagine that Anchor Hospital, a 250-bed medical center, is merging with the similar-sized Saint Mary’s Hospital to better serve the needs of their metropolitan community. An administrative board has been formed to guide all aspects of the merger. They have asked all departments to submit an executive brief that states their roles, intended model of operations, and initial steps to build interdepartmental relationships. 
The board’s primary concern for HR is how it will manage the merging of the workforces into a single, cohesive, and effective team. They want to understand HR’s primary role, guiding principles, and application of current practice. Specifically, they want your vision for the following:
A merger-related current best practice or trend that is being successfully employed by HR departments.
HR’s primary role in assimilating the workforces for the two hospitals.
The HR management model to be followed.
How to foster relationships between HR and department managers.
Instructions
Write a 3–4-page executive brief that address the following merger-related items:

Recommend a relevant HR trend or practice that would be useful to consider as part of this merger. Justify your recommendation.
Analyze HR’s primary role(s) as a strategic corporate partner in merging the workforces of the organizations. 
Recommend an HRM model that would effectively steer the joining of each organization’s employees into a single, cohesive workforce. Justify your recommendation.
Recommend two initial steps that HR should initiate to develop an effective relationship between HR and management. Justify your recommendation.
Additional Requirements

Resources: Use four sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.
SWS: This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Determine strategies for HR operations including defining organizational roles and relations with leadership.

A process recording is a written tool field education experience students, field instructors, and faculty use to examine the dynamics of social work interactions in time. Process recordings can help in developing and refining interviewing and intervention skills. By conceptualizing and organizing ongoing activities with social work clients, you are able to clarify the purpose of interviews and interventions, identify personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, and improve self-awareness. The process recording is also a useful tool in exploring the interpersonal dynamics and values operating between you and the client system through an analysis of filtering the process used in recording a session.
For this Assignment, you will submit a process recording of your field education experiences specific to this week.
The Assignment (2–4 pages):
Provide a transcript of what happened during your field education experience, including a dialogue of interaction with a client.
Explain your interpretation of what occurred in the dialogue, including social work practice or theories.
Describe your reactions and/or any issues related to your interaction with a client during your field education experience.
Explain how you applied social work practice skills when performing the activities during your process recording.
By Day 7
Submit you Assignment.
Note: You should also share your process recordings with your field instructor during your individual supervision.
Note: Adherence to confidentiality is required in your process recordings. Do not include real names of clients, supervisors, or social workers with whom you may come into contact during your social work field education experience. Omit any personal identifiers when detailing the interaction with your social work clients.
My process Recording in on a 21 caucasian female
Today I met with the client and she apologized for missing the last session.   The client informed me that she completed her resume.    During the session the client informed me that her sister got a job staples the client was a little bit jealous because her sister was able to obtain a job for her she also expressed to me that she got a new psychiatrist she will be see her for the first time in August she also informed me that she might change her medication to something different when she sees a psychiatrist. According to the client the medication that she’s on Lexapro 20 mg and lithium 1200 mg it’s not strong enough for her. The client has a fear that about getting a job she’s afraid that she might not be able to perform at the standards that the job expects her to perform. The client also has anxiety issues. I was about to explain to the client that on the first day of the job you are still learning what the job is about so no one is grading your performance. The client became very emotional and ended the session.

Refer to the topics covered in this week’s resources and incorporate them into your blog.
By Day 3
Post a blog post that includes:
An explanation of the social work practice skills you have gained by participating in your field education experience
My internship is jasmine trangucci-clinical social worker in private practice
Required Readings
Reupert, A. (2007). Social worker’s use of self. Clinical Social Work Journal, 35(2), 107–116.
Van Voorhis, R. M., & Hostetter, C. (2006). The impact of MSW education on social worker empowerment and commitment to client empowerment through social justice advocacy. Journal of Social Work Education, 42(1), 105–121.
Required Media
Laureate Education (Producer). (2013f). Self-reflection [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
Note:  This audio introduction is located in the “Introduction and Objectives” section. The approximate length of this media piece is 1 minute.

Choose one of the following ethical dilemmas in macro contexts described in our textbook chapter:
Distribution of limited resources
Community support (or lack thereof) for service provision
Relationships with colleagues
Using one of the ethical decision-making frameworks described in the chapter, outline the steps you would take to identify the problem, investigate potential solutions, solicit input from other stakeholders, carry out your strategy, and evaluate its success.
Your initial discussion board post should be at least 200-250 words in length. Please reference any articles you use for your example.  
Kirst-Ashman & Hull Ch. 12

SOCW 6530 WK 11 blog
Post a blog post that includes:
Ø An explanation of your social work field education experience, including the development of your professional identity
Some of the things I have learned
Ø My internship is at sound options I have been doing case management for MS (muscular sclerosis) Clients mostly finding them resources. Helping them apply for SSI and Copes or DSHS. 
Ø I have done needs assessments and recommendations. I have assessed for depression. I have learned how to document thoroughly and accurately  
Resource 
Birkenmaier, J., & Berg-Weger, M. (2018). The practicum companion for social work: Integrating class and fieldwork (4th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.
Chapter 10, “Termination: The Beginning of an End (or the End of a Beginning?)” (pp. 225-249)

Unit 6.1 DB: School Violence
Unit 6.1 DB: School ViolenceAddressing today’s problem with school violence is a complicated one. Use this Discussion Board thread to suggest and explain how you would implement change in school systems to make them safer. Was bullying or disrespectful treatment of a child a rooted cause for these horrible actions? What can schools do to better address the treatment of others within their school districts? Try and use some new and innovative ideas to make our children safer, yet not turn our schools into detention facilities. 

By now, you should be aware that the findings from a research study are only part of the story. As a consumer, hoping to inform practice by use of an evidence base, you want to know much more. A sound research study includes all the steps highlighted in previous weeks: reviewing existing literature, focusing a research question, choosing a qualitative or quantitative method for answering the question, designing the study including selection of data collection procedures and/or measures, procedures used, data analysis plan, and findings. In addition, the study commonly discusses how ethical concerns were addressed and acknowledges the limitations of the study. For this assignment, you review a published research study with two purposes in mind:
Observing the structure and content of the article
Comparing the content of the article to the recommended content of sections for a research study.
By Day 7
Submit a critique and review of the article, which includes the title page and the reference list. Follow the guidelines below:
Use the quantitative or qualitative research article that you located and that your instructor approved as part of the Week 5 assignment.
Provide an APA reference for the article you select.
If you selected a quantitative research study, use the “Quantitative Article Review and Critique. If you selected a qualitative study, use the “Qualitative Article Review and Critique.” Respond to all the questions.

Upon hearing the stories of sometimes horrific atrocities clients or client families have experienced, you as a social worker may find yourself confronting existential questions such as Why? For example, Why do horrible events happen to good people? Why do people abuse their children?
Trying to make sense of such trauma is not easy, and you may seek answers to these existential questions your whole life. And yet, there are opportunities for growth despite trauma for both clients and social workers. This is known as post-traumatic growth, where a renewed sense purpose or a more profound outlook on life is the by-product.
In this Discussion, you work to seek meaning from the trauma your clients experience and the subsequent healing you help your clients achieve in your social work practice.
To prepare:
Read about trauma-informed social work, and read this article listed in the Learning Resources: Vis, J.-A., & Boynton, H. M. (2008). Spirituality and transcendent meaning making: possibilities for enhancing posttraumatic growth. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work, 27(1/2): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1080/15426430802113814
By Day 3
Post:
In 1 sentence, identify an existential question with which you have grappled in relation to a client who has been traumatized.
Reflect on your fieldwork, or perhaps identify an existential question that might arise in working with the client in the case study you have selected throughout the course.
In 3 to 4 brief sentences, describe where there is potential for growth for the client as a result of the trauma.
In 3 to 4 brief sentences, explain where there is potential for growth for you, the social worker, as a result of listening to the client’s stories and bearing witness to their trauma.
Describe any challenges you may experience between the meaning you hold based on your personal beliefs and working within the client’s potentially different belief framework.