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Organization: American Red Cross

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Organization: American Red Cross

Positive Social Change Goal: Strengthening Community Resilience through Enhanced Disaster Preparedness and Response

The Red Cross of America concentrates on strong communities by working at the household level and trying to develop capacity for disaster preparedness. For the coming 12 months and thereafter, our objective is defined as achieving 25% more participants in the programs as the result of certain, measurable, and feasible activities. This will be ensured by following employee training completion as well as individual emergency plan creation step by step (Imperiale & Vanclay, 2020). This kind of delivery of services encourages community readiness, hence building a united community that is ready for sudden disasters.

Our envisioned strategy integrates vision from personalized community clinics to user-friendly mobile apps, together with partnerships, a redesigned training system, and impact assessment. Furthermore, it addresses the demands of community engagement, aligning the forces, which in turn promotes a more dynamic, secure, and stable environment worldwide (Tariq et al., 2021). Nevertheless, our aims might be as big as the sky, but ours will still be a joint effort that will be the footpath for permanent development. Therefore, by dedicating ourselves to resilience and preparing for the worst, we are determined to have a world where a strong community will stand.

References

Imperiale, A. J., & Vanclay, F. (2020). Barriers to enhancing disaster risk reduction and community resilience: Evidence from the L’Aquila disaster.  Politics and Governance,  8(4), 232-243.  https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3179

Tariq, H., Pathirage, C., & Fernando, T. (2021). Measuring community disaster resilience at local levels: An adaptable resilience framework.  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction,  62, 102358.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102358

LITERATURE SYNTHESIS PAPER: USING EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONAL OUTCOMES

In Week 1, you were introduced to the Literature Synthesis and Levels of Evidence Table that is due this week. In the subsequent weeks you developed a Levels of Evidence table containing 15 research and performance improvement articles to support the social change goal or outcome that is the basis for your performance improvement strategy for the nonprofit or public/government organization you chose in Week 1. By way of reminder, the difference between a peer-reviewed research article and a performance improvement article is the latter may be from a credible source and have value yet not be peer reviewed.

Then, you examined the literature information on the table and continuously searched for and refined themes you noted across the literature to support the use of the performance metrics, analysis, and intervention to develop and sustain positive outcomes for the organization.

Importantly, the focus of the Levels of Evidence table articles is not to have a certain number of articles per level represented, but instead to support and explain the rationale for the social change goal or outcome that is the basis for your performance improvement strategy for the nonprofit or public/government organization. Also, when completing the table, you are not writing about each study or a particular organization and what it did but instead about the themes you are finding. Look for similar words and/or phrases in the articles that support the social change goal or outcome that is the basis for your performance improvement strategy for the nonprofit or public/government organization.

RESOURCES

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources. 

WEEKLY RESOURCES

TO PREPARE

Identify literature (i.e., peer-reviewed research and performance improvement articles) to support the social change goal or outcome that will be the basis for your performance improvement strategy for the nonprofit or public/government organization you chose in Week 1. Note: You will place the article information in a Levels of Evidence table provided in the Learning Resources.

Consider the themes of the literature to support the use of the performance metrics, analysis, and intervention to develop and sustain positive outcomes for the organization.

Review the Walden Templates: General Templates webpage in this week’s Learning Resources. Go to the “Graduate Courses” section and use the “APA Course Paper Template (APA 7)” for this Assignment. 

ASSIGNMENT (4–5 PAGES, NOT INCLUDING THE TITLE PAGE, REFERENCES PAGE, AND APPENDIX):

This Synthesis Assignment should be in support of the organization you have discussed in Assignment 1 and Assignment 2 and should include at least 15 peer-reviewed research articles or performance improvement articles.

Provide a Levels of Evidence table using 15 research and performance improvement articles. Place the Levels of Evidence table as an appendix to the Literature Synthesis APA paper.

Write a Literature Synthesis paper that contains a thematic overview of the literature to support the use of the performance metrics, analysis, and intervention to develop and sustain positive outcomes for the organization.

Papers: Use APA 7 style guidelines for your title page, introduction, level headings, related summaries, and conclusion.

Be sure to support your Assignment with specific references to the Learning Resources and peer-reviewed sources from the Walden Library and/or the internet. Use proper APA format and citations, including those in the Learning Resources.

BY DAY 7

Submit your Literature Synthesis Assignment, including your completed Levels of Evidence table.

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Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). Writing literature reviews in your graduate coursework [Webinar]. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/webinars/graduate#s-lg-box-18447417

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