NBCDI (Outline) week4

Outlining Your Goals, Intentions, and Approach

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Grantham University

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The National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI)

Introduction

The National Black Child Development Institute is a nonprofit organization that provides and supports workshops, programs, as well as resources for African American children, their parents plus the communities. National Black Child Development Institute engages in supporting and working predominantly with African American children birth through age eight plus their families. They also do this through building a partnership with other community-based organizations, corporations’ foundations, various school systems, Head Start, the government, political leaders, and child care in addition to many other private and public partnerships. My work is driven for the betterment of way of living for African American children and families on the ground.

Readers/Audience

The audience of this project is the community at large and particularly those who are affected who are the children of color. The project also aims to target any stakeholders who would be interested in coming in and helping in making the lives of African American families and children better. The African American families and children know that they face discrimination. This project will make them understand that this issue has been taken as a concern and measures are being taken to address it. They should expect to see some changes in the way they get services. The needs of the readers will be met by ensuring good health, support from family, an environment that is safe, to build a positive self-image, as well as to be proud of the culture of African American community through making sure that there are trained professionals and parents who in one way or another are helpful to African American children.

Methods

I plan to gather my data using interviews. Data will be collected from sample populations of the addressed group on the ground to try and understand the issues that they go through. I will also use scholarly literature to try and get the history and root of this issue.

Results

I think that the outcomes of my research will be that the African American children and families have been facing discrimination in the delivery of services. They are not given the best of education as well as healthcare.

Conclusion

Based on the information you have gathered so far, start identifying how what you’ve learned connects to your thesis and how it falls under the scope of service-learning and civic engagement. Write up a brief description of those connections.

Based on the data that I have so far gathered, I have learnt that the African American children needs intervention to make sure that the children need to experience good health, support from family, an environment that is safe, to build a positive self-image, as well as to be proud of the culture of African American community. This connects to my thesis in that this work seeks to improve the way of living for African American children and families on the ground. This falls in the scope of civic engagement and service learning since the organization will be engaged on the ground with these children supporting and working predominantly with them from birth through age eight plus their families. We will as well do this through building a partnership with other community-based organizations, corporations’ foundations, various school systems, Head Start, the government, political leaders, and child care in addition to much other public and private partnerships.

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