Social work administrators need to be able to help raise funds for their organizations and ensure that the funds are spent effectively. Once administrators receive funding, how they manage the funds is critical for accountability and sustainability. When administrators manage funds effectively, they increase their credibility with stakeholders in the community. Administrators must be able to demonstrate how the resources have been used to support […]

Watch this important short film about Black feminist Audre Lorde: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkwj0znbuoQ  Then Read Lorde’s important essay called: There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions – Audre Lorde.pdf Actions Then write 350-word essay explaining what this phrase means in your own words, and explaining how it relates to intersectionality: “There is no hierarchy of oppressions.” (Pay close attention to her reading of “There is no hierarchy of oppressions” […]

Write a 260- to 350-word article that reviews a recent innovation in health care and its impact on existing systems (e.g., first- and second-movers, wearables, printed organs, genetic testing). Publish the article on your own social media account (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.), or post it on a health care message board of your choice. Include a citation of your article in your assignment. Cite 3 reputable references to […]

n 350-450 words, respond to the following prompt. Be sure to have citations and references in your post. Prompts: The vaccine registry in Texas (ImmTrac) brings together information submitted by physician offices, hospitals, and public health departments when they provide immunizations. These individual records are aggregated to give us a picture of the overall number of children who have been vaccinated in the State of Texas and […]

Once a human services organization receives funding to support its programs, the work is just getting started. As social work administrators move from planning to implementation, they have to evaluate the effectiveness of their programs. In other words, they must determine whether the programs are achieving their designated outcomes. Administrators can use such evaluations to demonstrate that the financial resources allocated to the organization are […]

Social Work Research: Planning a Program Evaluation Joan is a social worker who is currently enrolled in a social work PhD program. She is planning to conduct her dissertation research project with a large nonprofit child welfare organization where she has worked as a site coordinator for many years. She has already approached the agency director with her interest, and the leadership team of the […]

Assignment: Designing a Plan for Outcome Evaluation Social workers can apply knowledge and skills learned from conducting one type of evaluation to others. Moreover, evaluations themselves can inform and com`plement each other throughout the life of a program. This week, you apply all that you have learned about program evaluation throughout this course to aid you in program evaluation. To prepare for this Assignment, review […]

Discussion: Use of Group Designs in Program Evaluation Group programs are common in social work. Just as with other types of programs, social workers must understand the options available to them and know how to select the appropriate research design. For this Discussion, you evaluate group research design methods that can be used for an outcome evaluation of a foster parent training program. You also […]

This week, you focus on extending the logic model to include criteria for measuring the outcomes that you identified in your Week 7 logic model. In the Discussion, you evaluate which group research design is appropriate for a case study. You also generate criteria for an outcome evaluation of that program. In the Assignment, you generate a plan for an outcome evaluation of a hypothetical […]