Community action plan
CSSW 500B Capstone Project Assignment
Template
Basics
APA format
Title Page
Reference Page
Use of Headings
10 – 12 Pages
10 – 12 References
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Rubric
| Poor 0-4 | Fair 5-7 | Good 8-9 | Excellent 10 | Total (110) | ||
| I. Description of the topic and rationale supporting the need for community action. | ||||||
| 1. Describe the identified need. | Student demonstrates minimal comprehension on how to identify a need for the community and clients. Student did not include examples that offered evidence of course readings/materials. | Student demonstrates a fair understanding of his/her knowledge on how to present a clear identified need for the community and clients. Student included a couple examples that offered evidence of course readings/materials. | Student provides an identified need for the community and clients with some research and analysis. Student included some examples that offered evidence of course readings/materials | Student provides a clear and thoroughly identified need for the community and clients through research and analysis. Student included several examples that offered evidence of course readings/materials. | /10 | |
| 2. What type of needs assessment(s) will be most appropriate? | Student demonstrates minimal comprehension on how to determine a needs an assessment. | Student demonstrates a fair understanding of his/her knowledge on how to determine a needs assessment. | Student demonstrated a good understanding of how they chose the needs assessment. | Student provides a clear and thorough understanding how they chose the needs assessment. | /10 | |
| 3. Provide a rationale supporting how you will engage the community. | Student demonstrates minimal comprehension of how they develop a plan to engage the client and use minimal incorporation of the client’s culture. | Student demonstrates a fair understanding of his/her knowledge to develop a plan that engages the client with some incorporation from the client’s culture. | Student demonstrates a good understanding of most of the plan to engage the client that incorporates context from the client’s culture. | Student develops a plan to engage the client that incorporates context from the client’s culture. | /10 | |
| 4. Provide a rationale supporting the need for a community intervention. | Student demonstrates minimal comprehension of how they develop a rationale for a needed community intervention. | Student demonstrates a fair understanding of his/her knowledge to develop a rational for the needed intervention. | Student demonstrates a good understanding of most of the rational for the needed intervention. | Student provides a clear and cohesive rationale for the needed intervention. | /10 | |
| 5. What ethical standards will guide your engagement and assessment of the community? | Student demonstrates a minimal plan that fosters some collaboration with the client in the working relationship. | Student demonstrates a fair plan that fosters some collaboration with the client in the working relationship. | Student demonstrates a plan that fosters some collaboration with the client in the working relationship. | Student proposes a plan that will foster collaboration with the client in the working relationship. | /10 | |
| 6. What aspects of diversity and difference are relevant to understanding this community, and how will you incorporate this into your plan? | Student presented minimal understanding of context and communicates how this contributes to understanding the community. | Student demonstrates a fair of context and communicates how this contributes to understanding the community. | Student demonstrates a good understanding of context and communicates how this contributes to understanding the community. . | Student thoroughly identifies relevant contexts and communicates how this contributes to understanding and working with the community. | /10 | |
| 7. How will you use community members’ voices to inform your plan? | Student presents minimal plan to incorporate community/client perspectives. | Student presents a partial plan to incorporate community/client perspectives. | Student presents a plan to incorporate community/client perspectives into the plan. | Student presents a well-thought out plan to incorporate community/client perspectives into the plan. | /10 | |
| II. Plan for advocacy and implementation. | ||||||
| 8. Describe your intervention plan. | Student demonstrates minimal understanding of how to implement an evidenced based intervention as it applies to the community/client. | Student demonstrates a fair understanding of how to implement an evidenced based intervention as it applies to the community/client. | Student demonstrates a good understanding of how to implement an evidenced based intervention as it applies to the community/client. | Student thoroughly describes the implementation of an evidence-based intervention as it applies to the community/client. | /10 | |
| 9. Explain who will implement the community action plan: staffing: community employees/supporters/volunteers. | Student provides little to no identification of stakeholders and their involvement. | Student identifies minimal stakeholders and provides limited description of their involvement in the intervention. | Student identifies some stakeholders and professionals and describes their involvement in the intervention. | Student describes key stakeholders and professionals and their involvement in the intervention. | /10 | |
| III. Evaluation | ||||||
| 10. What is your plan for evaluation? How will you collect the necessary data? | Student demonstrates minimal understanding of an appropriate plan for evaluating work with the community. | Student demonstrates a fair understanding of an appropriate plan for evaluating work with the community. | Student demonstrates a good understanding of selecting appropriate plan for evaluating work with the community. | Student demonstrates an excellent understanding of selecting appropriate plan for evaluating work with the community. | /10 | |
| 11. How will you know if you have been successful? | Student provides minimal to no detail of the assessment plan. | Student provides some detail of an assessment plan. | Student provides good detail of an assessment plan. | Student thoroughly details an assessment plan that critically analyzes, monitors, and evaluates the intervention. | /10 |
Assignment Components
Description of the topic and rationale supporting the need for the community action plan
Plan for advocacy and implementation
Evaluation
How to demonstrate that you can utilize information obtained in a new way?
1. Description of the topic and rationale supporting the need for the community action plan
Define Identified Need
Provide a clear and thoroughly identified need for the community and clients through research and analysis.
Include several examples that offered evidence of course readings/materials.
Who is this need reaching?
What type of needs assessment(s) will be most appropriate?
A clear and thorough understanding how they chose the needs assessment.
Provide a rationale supporting how you will engage the community.
Develop a plan to engage the client that incorporates context from the client’s culture.
Provide a rationale supporting the need for a community intervention.
A clear and cohesive rationale for the needed intervention.
Why is this important?
What ethical standards will guide your engagement and assessment of the community?
Include within your a plan how you plan to foster collaboration with the client in the working relationship.
How will you work with your population?
What aspects of diversity and difference are relevant to understanding this community, and how will you incorporate this into your plan?
Clearly identifies relevant contexts and communicates how this contributes to understanding and working with the community.
How will you represent cultural competence?
How will you use community members’ voices to inform your plan?
Present a plan that incorporate community/client perspectives into the plan.
How will you capture the voice of your community?
II. Plan for advocacy and implementation
Describe your intervention plan
Thoroughly describes the implementation of an evidence-based intervention as it applies to the community/client.
Do your research?
Find out what groups have been done before
Explain who will implement the community action plan: staffing: community employees/supporters/volunteers
Describes key stakeholders and professionals and their involvement in the intervention.
Who is on your team?
What are their roles and responsibilities?
III. Evaluation
What is your plan for evaluation?
Demonstrates an excellent understanding of selecting appropriate plan for evaluating work with the community.
How will you collect the necessary data?
How will you know if you have been successful?
Detailed assessment plan that critically analyzes, monitors, and evaluates the intervention.
Checklist
References