Competency Paper # 1: Agency & Community Analysis

Click the following link to below because that agency you will be using: FAYETTEVILLE AREA OPERATION INASMUCH.

http://www.faoiam.org/

Submit your answers using the appropriate assignment link. 

5-10 Pages not including cover and reference pages. At least three references from professional Journal Articles. No references will result in grade of Zero (0). APA FORMAT.

The Agency Analysis paper and presentation requires students to be able to act as professional representatives of their respective agencies and to utilize agency materials and staff to research and to accurately provide agency information to their peers/colleagues including mission, history, funding, organizational structure, client’s served, services offered, theories utilized, relevant social policies/legislation, the intern role in the agency.

Outline: Identify your placement

1. Name and location

2. Brief history of organization

3. How has it changed over time?

Agency Overview  

1. Social problems and community needs your agency is designed to address. Include discussion of needs assessments which have been done, and other evidence of the nature and extent of the problems, as well as what your agency views as the major causes of such problems.

2. Description of the agency goals and objectives, and the programs and services designed to carry them out.

3. Describe the structure of your agency. Include an organizational chart and mission statement. Give a general job description for each level on the chart. Include discussion of how the agency is funded.

4. Give a detailed description of the programs (s) in which you are placed. (For Example Child Welfare).  Describe your role in the agency.  Include how you relate to clients, workers, and the services which the agency provides.

Community Context of Practice

1. Define the community served by your agency: territory, size and boundaries

2. Using current data, describe the socio – economic, racial, ethnic, age, gender, religious makeup of the community served by your agency. If your agency serves a very broad community, use the statistics for the community in which it is located

3. Are agency’s clients’ representative of the entire community? Is there over or under representation of a particular geographic, racial, ethnic, religious, age, gender, or other subgroup?  Why?  Use agency or program statistics, or systematic observation, as a comparison with community statistics.

4. Are there programs in the agency that address social & economic justice? Identify