Due Friday by 4 pm
Assessment 10
Project 2
Needs Assessment
Community Name
Saint Helena Island
Description of the community needs
Saint Helena Island found within the county of Beaufort, South Carolina. The city is scenically and has a string reservation of the culture of antebellum. There is a reconstruction monument that symbolizes the after civil war reconstruction. There are military establishments that are located in Beaufort, such as the US Naval Hospital, Paris Island, and the Marine Air Station. Two thousand eighteen census statistics indicate the population of the area as being 188,715 within the city boundaries. The racial distribution stands at Asians being 1.4 %, African Americans 18.2 %, and whites 77.9%. The possible needs for this population are providing affordable facilities, proper care to help those in the community that is suffering from substance abuse. Another need is eliminating the ongoing violence in the community.
Community Needs that are Currently Being Met
The community needs that are currently being met are the mayor and police department working together to try to cut down the crime rate for a safer community. Beaufort County Sheriff Department is working with the community and taking the necessary steps to provide more safety checks, holding town hall meetings to educate the community, and providing safety tips on how to stay safe. Youth and adult males ages 18- 50 would benefit from seeking assistance from Human Services. Substance abuse is one of the biggest problems in the community, and seeking help from human services professionals would be beneficial. Services available to the population is a program provided through the Department of Social Services. The program provides referrals to the local outpatient treatment center, which allows people to return home, and send those that are willing to Morris Village located in Columbia, SC, which is a temporary live-in facility. The program provides referrals to the local outpatient treatment center, which allows people to return home, and send those that are willing to Morris Village located in Columbia, SC, which is a temporary live-in facility. The program provides referrals to the local outpatient treatment center which allows people to return home, and send those that are willing to Morris Village located in Columbia, SC which is a temporary live in facility.
Community that were identified as not being met or population not being served
The community is not being served as it should be because of the lack of facility treatment centers in the community. Crimes are something else that needs to be addressed in the community. The police are slow in the process of stopping and solving crimes in a timely matter. The community is afraid to come forward because of the lack of protection. Funding and facilities are needed to help the people in the community overcome their addiction, which needs to be affordable for people without insurance. There is only one facility in the city, and before you are allowed to attend, you have to be referred by a professional. For those who need more advanced treatment, the closet facility is three hours away, and it is not affordable for people without insurance. The city of Beaufort or Saint Helena Island does not provide these kinds of treatment facilities locally. Families have to drive their loved one long distances to get the help that they need. The people are not getting help, and they continue to cause problems in the community. Head-on collisions, drug overdose, rape, and shootings are some of the issues that the community is experiencing. The community needs to be addressed through appropriate planning to face these challenges (Mannix et al, 2018).
Choose and identify one unmet need
The unmet need that I choose for my project would be providing facilities that help the people of the community with substance abuse.
Project 3
Program Design
A logic model is a road map or rather a graphic depiction which presents diverse shared relationships among the impact, outcomes, outputs, activities as well as the resources for the program (Hossain, et.al, 2016). In the figure below:
Question/Decision
Activity/Process
Activity/Process
Yes
No
Ending Symbol
No
Referral
Drop Out
Terminate
· An arrow connects another process, question, or ending symbol.
· Dotted arrows reflect returning to a previous step.
· Three methods for closing a case are
1. The agency could make a referral to another agency
2. The client could voluntarily discontinue
3. The agency could terminate the client
In addition to the above chart, another model that shows diverse activities which the program is supposed to include to address the need include the purpose or mission of the model, the context, the inputs or resources, activities or interventions, the outputs and the effects or results. This model is shown below: or interventions, the outputs and the effects or results. This model is shown below:
Referral
Sources
Is the client appropriate and eligible?
Intake on assessing the referral
Is the referral suitable?
Does the agency and client approve the plan?
Development of an intervention plan
Facility
Agency No
No
Close case/referral
Are goals met?
Follow up/ Monitor external Referrals
Does the agency Meets the needs of the clients
Coordinate Services
Resolve Barriers or refer another service
Close Case
If the client continues and willing to accept terms of the program, an intervention plan involving the achievement of specific objectives gets agreed upon mutually between the agency and the client; a plan will be put in motion and move forward from there. After treatment and the client is released from the facility. The staff will do follow-ups, and coordinate with other agencies if necessary, to prevent relapse. If the client does not agree to terms of the program or becomes a client and the goals are not met as agreed, and the client is not willing to participate as agreed upon, the contract will become null and void, and the case will be closed.
If the client continues, an intervention plan involving the achievement of specific objectives gets agreed upon mutually between the agency and the client.
· Is there only one pathway, or are there multiple pathways through the system?
· Is the client willingly ready to set their goals and follow through?
· After going through intake, if the client is referred to a specialist, must the client return to a central point before going on to a second specialist, or can the first specialist make a direct referral?
· Can a client go directly to a specialist, thus bypassing a central intake?
· How permeable are the agency’s boundaries to admitting people (e.g., eligibility requirements, waiting lists, and bureaucratic “red tape”)?
· What alternative pathways are open to clients if their conditions change or their objectives are not met?
· If certain objectives are met, but others are not, what does the agency do?
· Can clients who prematurely discontinue be recycled back into the agency’s program at a later point?
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In the human services field, the person or entity paying for the service is usually not the consumer of the service (except in those few instances where clients pay full fee). Because many organizations experience more demand for their service than what their resources will allow, because dissatisfied clients who leave the agency can be replaced by someone else on a waiting list, and because funding limitations force agencies to reduce services, agency staff may tend to treat their consumers with less care and consideration (Hasenfeld, 2015). The term customer is used as a metaphorical expression to convey the importance of treating people with care and dignity. One should be cautious, however, about applying too literally the language of business in designing human service programs. Asking staff, for example, to refer to their homeless clients, or adolescent delinquents, or substance-abusing service consumers as "customers," could feel awkward and insincere.
A more open-ended approach is to use the Internet so that people can describe what they like if they are current consumers or what services they would like if they were to use your program in the future. Provide an easily accessible part of the website for people to request more information or for making suggestions about your services. Also, make sure that someone responds daily. A word of caution: do not over-rely on the Internet to obtain feedback on the services. Not all consumers can access the Internet, and be mindful that overusing internet surveys can be perceived as pestering.
Project 4
Implementation Plan and Funding
Board of Directors/Board of Trustees is governance for human services organizations; they are there to protect the organization. According to (Hoefer & Watson, 2014), there are four ways the board of trustees governs human service organizations. Facilitating that the government attains the expected legal obligations, while in operation as per its vision and mission, as well as shielding the assets of the business. It is there to ensure the organization is operating efficiently and ensuring that the perspectives and viewpoints of the members are represented. The responsibilities of the board fall into four major categories: Legal and fiduciary,
1. Legal and fiduciary,
2. Oversight,
3. Fundraisers, and
4. Representation of constituencies and viewpoints.
Funding came come from several sources, such as block grants, annual festivals, and state funds.
Since there is greater competition for resources, it affects human services because non-profit superintendents tend to function in a field that has rare properties as well as augmented rivalry for those resources. Funding from the government at local, state, and federal levels are strained as a result of political burden in a bid to reduce the rates of taxes. Contracted payments to non-profit organizations are often delayed for months, causing non-profits to face financial problems (Watson & Hoefer, 2014). In human services, the number of skills being required is higher for human service agencies because the range of skills needed to cope in such an environment; its need is more demanding. Administrators should be knowledgeable in budgeting, community collaboration, and fundraising. The need for evidence-based practices is important to receive funding and resources; the organizations must become more effective in how they serve the needs of clients, and how it can be measured, which is why their use of technology is important and has been incorporated in organizations.
I have looked into different funding for my program, and I would contact the pharmaceutical makers like Procter & Gamble for assistance for annual funding and/or scholarships to help with the cost of my program since they are the makers. I will consider contacting NACAR since they are sponsors of Jack Daniels and other alcohol distributers for assistance. The Food and Drug Administration is another option I will consider contacting for scholarships and funds for my program. They may be willing to offer funds, grants, or contribute other ways in helping patients that do not have money or medical insurance to cover expense not covered by the program. With the funds in place, the facility will be equipped and fully stocked with all the required medications, sufficient beds for the clients, lab, and other equipment needed to keep the facility fully running. The long-term I hope to achieve in my program is to establish at least five partnerships on favorable terms over five years. Accomplishing this goal, I can have a sufficient amount of sponsors needed to keep the funds coming in to support the facilities and their needs. I will promote flyers, ads, and other educational sources showing the dangers of alcohol and drugs, and display signs showing the penalty and consequences of it, by doing this it will help to control some of the substance abuse in the community. Budget control is something needed to make sure the funds are used for the sole purpose of the program, and not for things that do not contribute much to the program. By keeping track of the spending, it will keep the budget under control, money would be saved, and there would be no unnecessary spending.
Organizing a yearly festival in the community is something that I will invest in. Having a festival will help the staff to get familiar with the community and understand their wants and needs while raising money and having fun. Media coverage such as television, radio, and the local newspaper is also something that will help to put my program out there. Some people are not aware that the program exists, and it is there to help the people of the community. Putting this information out there not only helps the people, but it could bring in more sponsors.