Career Development Program Plan

Your site supervisor at RCCC wants your help to secure agency funding for a career development program to serve your clients and community. You will design a career development program plan to be reviewed by the administration at the RCCC for funding consideration.

In this assignment, you will identify a diverse population for whom you need to design a career development program.

The following are examples of populations that may be used:

· Specific racial minorities or ethnic groups.

· Individuals from specific religious affiliations.

· Different generations in the workforce.

· Veterans or military families.

· People with a particular disability or mental disorder.

· LGBTQI+ individuals.

· People who were previously incarcerated.

· At-risk youth.

· International refugees/asylees.

· People with limited English proficiency.

Be creative and explore a population about which you know little and/or want to learn more. Your population can be situated in a hypothetical agency, school, or counseling center.

Using the  Career Development Program Plan Template [DOCX]  Download Career Development Program Plan Template [DOCX], address the following:

· Define the diverse population, its characteristics, and its needs related to career development (one page).

· Career Development Program Planning (one page).

· Program goal: What is the overarching goal of your program?

· Objectives: Write three measurable objectives to meet the needs of your population.

· Address how the program will be delivered (face-to-face or online/group or individual/frequency [how many sessions] and duration [number of days/weeks/etc.] of program).

· Define personnel and budget needs.

· Describe how you will promote the career program to target relevant participants.

· Career Development Program Implementation (1–2 pages).

· Detail the timeline for your program, session topics, and specific strategies/activities.

· Use the table in the provided template to ensure all aspects of program implementation are met.

· Career Development Program Evaluation (0.5 page).

· How will you measure the effectiveness of your career development program?

· Process-oriented data: Include an objective assessment that clients would take to measure progress towards your identified objectives. Utilize information from Week 4 on Assessment. (School counseling learners - ASCA refers to this as perception data.)

· Outcome data: Include how you will measure results on a larger, long-term scale.

Assignment Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

· Written communication: Written communication is free of grammar, spelling, and format errors that detract from the overall message.

· APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines. You may reference the Capella Writing Center:  Evidence and APA .

· Length of paper: 4–5 typed, double-spaced pages of content, in addition to the references page.

· About one page for defining your chosen diverse population.

· About one page for program planning.

· About one to two pages for program implementation.

· About half a page for program evaluation.

· References: A minimum of three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.

· Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point