Assignment: Capstone Project Part IV: The Technicals: Developing Strategic Goals CHILD WELFARE

First of all, I will consider gathering all the concern key stakeholders who will tend to serve as the task force for the needs assessment regarding the child welfare project. In context, the group will include individuals in service delivery staff, leadership, consumers as well as volunteers. During the gathering, I will create questionnaires whereby I will be asking questions relating to various factors such as duration, frequency, scope severity and perceptions the project will take and aim (Cummings, 2016). Based on brainstorming, I will initiate validated methods like Modified Delphi Technique that is a simple meeting facilitation technique to give every participant an equal chance to contribute their voices as well as ideas regarding the concerned project.

Step 2: Guiding Documents

I will collect and gather feedback that directly comes from the concern task force where then I will analyze. Thereafter, I will use the analyzed data to come up with concrete solutions to act as the guideline documents for the entire child welfare needs assessment. Besides, I will ensure that the documents are well attached and published in a comprehensive manner for both task force and stakeholders involved to clearly read and understand.

Step 3: secondary data collection

In step three, I will utilize the existing sources in formulating relevant information concerning the child welfare project. Moreover, I will use the secondary data or information to support the project’s questions in regards to my surveys, interviews and focus groups. Further, I will conduct in-depth research on the available literature for an effective understanding of research evidence state relating to the subjective area associating to the child welfare project (Child Welfare Strategy Group).

Step 4: Primary data collection

I will also utilize both methods of collecting primary data including qualitative and quantitative methods which will help me in collecting direct information concerning the child welfare project from the people I will be serving. Some of the primary data sources I will initiate include electronic or written surveys, moderated focus groups, and key informant interviews.

Step 5: Data analysis

With all data required for the project, I will tend to use both qualitative and quantitative analysis to verify the results. During the analyzing, I will seek help from a statistician who will help to predict the outcomes of the results and to determine whether the data collected are valid and relevant to the project.

Stakeholders

Some of the most significant stakeholders that I will prefer to include in the child welfare project include the government and the financial institutions. As a reason, it is evident that the project requires a heavy amount of capital to fund it to its completion. As such, the government and financial institutions will act as the funding sources as their contributions towards the t project will assist the organization to successfully complete the project without interference that may arise as a result of lack of adequate funds for the project sustainability (Stones, 2006). Furthermore, as Stone and colleagues (2006) suggest, I will call upon partnerships with the same goals and objectives to work together and share ideas relevant to the project. In addition, I will, also involves the community concerned to offer the first-hand information regarding the challenges facing their children in day to day activities.

Stakeholder survey

Question 1: Please provide an indication of which program will be utilized during the project implementation

Justification: Some of the programs to be used include parent-child interaction therapy, foster home licensing, placement assessment, independent living guidance, and adoption assistance.

Question 2: What role will you take on in this foundation?

Justification: What role will potential stakeholders and members take on in this foundation to promote social change in the area of fighting for child welfare. For example, referral agency, education, government agency, child protective services or court/judicial system.

Question 3: How often do you have interactions with the Annie E. Casey Foundation?

Justification: Is the interaction between potential stakeholders and members of the foundation on a weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual basis to ensure the cases of child welfare are being handled effectively to ensure the safety of these children

Question 4: How knowledgeable and courteous are members of the organization in their interaction with children and their families?

Justification: Working with the Annie E. Casey Foundation in demonstrating an overall children and families’ needs knowledge

Question 5: Who will you engage in your project?

Justification: The community’s families will be engaged in the project where respect will be maintained to all the members.

Question 6: How can you offer your support?

Justification: All the stakeholders concerned will be given a chance to offer their ideas and the relevant one will be supported in respect to their expertise areas.

Question 7: What timeline is drawn to ensure goals, objectives, and needs assessments are being done in a timely manner?

Justification: All the concerned members are easily accessible and tend to respond to phone calls whenever they are needed. Potential stakeholders are able to see progress within the foundation for the purpose of ending child welfare.

Question 8: How important are the services to be offered in the Annie E. Casey Foundation?

Justification: Ensuring all the services to be offered are be focused on addressing the identified needs and requirements for the community.

Question 9: How can we improve the services offered in the Annie E. Casey Foundation?

Justification: In understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the services to children and their families to put an end to child welfare, this organization can know what areas are lacking and which to improve on to ensure all children and their families are receiving adequate resources to live successful healthy lives and build long-lasting relationships amongst each other.

Question 10: Are they any individual (parent or child) who would like to share their feelings or experience with the Annie E. Casey Foundation?

Justification: To obtain accurate information on the effectiveness of this foundation to decrease the number of children and families needing child welfare services.

References

Child Welfare Strategy Group. (2016). Retrieved from https://www.aecf.org/work/child-welfare/child-welfare-strategy-group//

Cummings, S., Bridgman, T., & Brown, K. G. (2016). Unfreezing change as three steps: Rethinking Kurt Lewin’s legacy for change management. Human relations, 69(1), 33-60.

Stone, S., D'andrade, A., & Austin, M. (2006). Educational services for children in foster care: Common and contrasting perspectives of child welfare and education stakeholders.Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1(2), 53-70.