What is the necessary service or program?

PSY 638 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric

Overview The final project for this course is the creation of a grant proposal. The assessment for this course will be the construction of a grant proposal that targets a current area of developmental, behavioral, or diagnostic need for children or adolescents in your community. The final project represents an authentic demonstration of competency, because it requires you to apply concepts from across the child and adolescent curriculum to compose an original grant proposal for a theoretically supported, age-specific, and effective intervention program. Terms commonly used in grant proposals include problem identification, prevalence, assessment of resources, impact of the problem, and implementation plan. The meaning of these grant terms is revealed in the critical elements listed in the prompt, in which you will be asked to devise a grant proposal that one would submit in the field of psychology. Grant proposals could be submitted for funding for research, training, institutional upgrades, nonprofit center grants, funding opportunities, grants for children’s programs, or grants for specific outreach programs such as engaging underrepresented cultures. The purpose of this task is to assess your understanding of concepts from across the child and adolescent curriculum. Some real-world examples of grant proposal ideas have included:

 School/Educational Setting Orchard Middle School has over 50 at-risk students with a reading performance that directly affects their overall self-esteem and negative behavior issues. The school submitted a grant proposal to support development of a program to help all students with poor reading skills learn to read at grade level and increase their reading speed, comprehension, and reading attention span and overall sense of worth, esteem, and achievement. Studies have shown those who do better in school, fare better with stable mental health.

 Outpatient Mental Health The Open Arms Family Center requested a grant in the amount of $250,000 to contribute to the start-up funds for a family homeless shelter and mental health services. As an innovative, all-inclusive shelter program, the center aimed to provide for 10 families with children under the age of five who are experiencing homelessness. The center is committed to its mission of decreasing the overall number of homeless families in the Metro Boston area as well as working to break the cycle of homelessness.

 Community Outreach The purpose of Healthy Tomorrows is to stimulate innovative community-based programs that employ prevention strategies to promote access to health care for children and their families nationwide. HTPCP funding supports direct-service projects, not research projects. Healthy Tomorrows is designed to support family-centered initiatives that implement innovative approaches for focusing resources to promote community; define preventive child health and developmental objectives for vulnerable children and their families, especially those with limited access to quality health services; foster cooperation among community organizations, agencies, and families; involve pediatricians and other pediatric, child, and adolescent mental health professionals; build community and statewide partnerships among professionals in health, education, social services, government, and business to

achieve self-sustaining programs to ensure healthy children and families. Healthy Tomorrows requested a grant proposal for $10,000 to conduct a needs analysis for a meal delivery program to serve its less mobile community members.

The below resources provide more details and insight into the grant-writing process:

 Successful Grant Writing: Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals

 Grant Writing 101 (The American Psychological Association’s resource page for grant writing) The project is divided into three milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Three, Five, and Seven. The final submission will occur in Module Nine. In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

 Assess contemporary theories of development for their strengths and weaknesses in addressing current developmental, behavioral, and diagnostic issues for children and adolescents

 Critique the major criteria used to classify children and adolescents with specific disorders established by the American Psychiatric Association

 Evaluate the influence of individual, familial, environmental, cultural, and political factors for their current impact on the diagnostic process for children and adolescents

 Evaluate child and adolescent development resources and support services in terms of accessibility, organization, funding, and overall effectiveness

 Assess the ethical implications of research and program development in the field of child and adolescent psychology

 Analyze the effectiveness of theoretically-supported intervention strategies to address current developmental, behavioral, and diagnostic needs of children and adolescents

Prompt

The grant proposal will contain the critical elements listed below.

I. Problem Identification: Research and identify resources for a specific developmental, behavioral, or diagnostic need for children or adolescents in your community (3–4 pages):

a. Prevalence: Determine a necessary program or service by examining current needs for children or adolescents in your community, using the standards established by the American Psychiatric Association.

i. What is the issue you have chosen to address? Who is affected? What data do you have that points to the prevalence of this issue? ii. What is the necessary service or program? How will it address the needs you have examined?

b. Assessment of Resources: Evaluate available and needed resources in your community. i. Evaluate the resources available for providing a program or service such as the one you have identified. ii. Determine necessary resources that are not available and explain their importance in providing the identified program or service.

c. Impact of Problem: Describe the impact of the problem on individuals, families, and the community. Construct an impact statement based on

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the prevalence of the identified issue and the lack of community resources. i. Articulate how the lack of the identified program or service has an impact on the community. ii. How is the lack of available resources exacerbating the issue?

II. Literature Review: Conduct a review of available literature around developmental theory in regard to your identified issue (3–4 pages):

a. Problem/Need: Using American Psychiatric Association criteria and current professional research publications, how is the identified developmental, behavioral, or diagnostic problem identified/diagnosed in children and adolescents?

b. Theory Survey and Comparison: Survey current developmental theories. i. Identify the factors that contribute to the prevalence of the problem according to these theories. ii. How do these different theories compare? What are their contrasting opinions in regard to prevalence and diagnosis of your

identified problem?

III. Intervention Strategy: Research and justify the selection of a theoretically supported and effective intervention strategy for addressing the target issue (2–3 pages):

a. Efficacy: Analyze and critique at least two established intervention strategies for inconsistencies and effectiveness. i. Critically examine intervention strategies for consistency with current developmental theories. ii. How effective were these strategies in addressing their respective issues? To what extent would these intervention strategies address

the issue identified in your community? b. Selection: Select an intervention strategy and justify your selection based on its effectiveness and the individual, familial,

environmental, cultural, and political factors. Your strategy should be appropriate for your age-specific population. c. Ethics: Analyze the selected intervention strategy for possible ethical and legal challenges. Consider provider as well as client concerns.

IV. Implementation Plan: Construct a plan for implementation of the selected intervention strategy in your community (4–5 pages): a. Narrative: Compose a narrative to describe the setting, personnel, target population, length of time for service, and capacity of the

proposed program. b. Training: Formulate a strategy for the training of personnel according to the selected intervention strategy. c. Assessment: Recommend an assessment plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention strategy. d. Ethics: Assess the ethical and legal implications for implementing the intervention strategy in your community.

V. Closing Statement: Summarize your grant proposal/recommendation with careful attention to the audience you must convince.

Milestones Milestone One: Problem Identification Draft In Module Three, you will create a draft of the Problem Identification section of your final grant proposal. In this assignment, you will think about the professional environment you will be seeking upon graduation and a potential problem within that professional environment that could be solved through your recommended program, research, or initiative. This milestone is graded with the Milestone One Rubric. Milestone Two: Literature Review Draft In Module Five, you will submit a draft of the Literature Review section of your final grant proposal. Your draft will contain a narrative in which you will use professional journals, texts, and resources to provide a comprehensive examination of the identified problem from the perspective of current developmental theories. Providing examples relevant or similar to your organizational environment is imperative for those reviewing the grant to truly gain an experiential perspective of the grant. This milestone is graded with the Milestone Two Rubric. Milestone Three: Intervention Strategy and Implementation Plan Draft In Module Seven, you will submit a draft of the Intervention Strategy and Implementation Plan section for your grant proposal. This milestone is graded with the Milestone Three Rubric. Final Submission: Grant Proposal In Module Nine, you will submit your final grant proposal. The final submission will include responses to all critical elements listed above. The final submission of the grant proposal should assemble the milestones into a single document. It is expected that each milestone area will be revised in response to the feedback provided during the milestone submissions across the course. Grant agencies will return strong grant applications with suggested or required changes prior to approval, so this practice mimics the actual process. Submit these sections in one complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. The final submission will be graded using the Final Project Rubric.

Deliverables

Milestone Deliverable Module Due Grading

1 Problem Identification Draft Three Graded separately; Milestone One Rubric

2 Literature Review Draft Five Graded separately; Milestone Two Rubric

3 Intervention Strategy and Implementation Plan Draft

Seven Graded separately; Milestone Three Rubric

Final Submission: Grant Proposal Nine Graded separately; Final Project Rubric

Final Product Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your grant proposal must be 12–16 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in APA format. Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Include at least five references cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Problem Identification:

Prevalence

Submission provides comprehensive research evidence of the existence and prevalence of the identified problem/need for the community and provides real-world examples to support argument

Submission provides published data that evidences the identified problem is a prevalent problem/need for the community

Submission provides limited data to support that the identified problem is a prevalent problem/need for the community

Submission lacks credible research data to support that the identified problem is a prevalent problem/need for the community

5

Problem Identification: Assessment of

Resources

Submission contains an extensive and comprehensive list of community resources that may be related to the services necessary for addressing the identified problem/need, as well as a detailed description of the limited capacity to address the identified problem and real-world examples to support claims

Submission provides evidence in the form of links, citations, and a description of local resources for their limited capacity to address the identified problem

Submission provides evidence in the form of links, citations, and a description of local resources, yet it may lack in the examination of the capacity of the resources to address the identified problem

Submission provides limited evidence in the form of links, citations, and a description of local resources without addressing the capacity of the resources to address the identified problem

10

Problem Identification:

Impact of Problem

Submission provides research- supported evidence in a highly detailed and professional manner that demonstrates the comprehensive impact that the identified problem has been proven to have on individuals, families, and the community and grounds claims in actual examples and relevant theory

Submission provides research- supported evidence of how the identified problem will have an impact on individuals, families, and the community if the problem is not addressed proactively

Submission provides research evidence of the general impact of the problem without considering the specific community

Submission discusses the general impact of the problem without considering the specific community or without providing research evidence to support the impact of the identified problem

5

Literature Review:

Problem/Need

Submission provides a comprehensive examination of the identified problem through the use of current professional research publications and draws unique connections and insights from the literature

Submission contains substantial evidence that the identified problem/need has been explored through the use of current professional research publications

Submission contains limited evidence that the identified problem/need has been explored through the use of current professional research publications

Submission does not contain evidence that the identified problem/need has been explored through the use of current professional research publications; research may be substantially out of date, from non-credible sources, or absent from the submission

10

Literature Review: Theory

Survey and Comparison

Submission provides a comprehensive review of the literature that demonstrates professional consideration of current developmental theories for their approach to the identified problem; this should include an examination of the competing or conflicting theoretical approaches to the identified problem/need and an illustration from a real-world example to support approach

Submission provides a review of the literature that demonstrates professional consideration of current developmental theories for their approach to the identified problem; this should include an examination of the competing or conflicting theoretical approaches to the identified problem/need

Submission provides a review of the literature that demonstrates consideration of current developmental theories for their approach to the identified problem; the examination of the competing or conflicting theoretical approaches to the identified problem/need may be lacking in detail or absent from this submission

Submission lacks a review of the literature for demonstrating consideration of current developmental theories for their approach to the identified problem, and the examination of the competing or conflicting theoretical approaches to the identified problem/need may be lacking in detail or absent from this submission

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Intervention Strategy: Efficacy

Submission evidences a comprehensive review of the current literature to demonstrate professional consideration of evidence-based intervention strategies for the identified problem/need (considers a minimum of two intervention strategies at a highly detailed level) and uses real-world examples to illustrate claims

Submission evidences an extensive review of the current literature to demonstrate consideration of evidence-based intervention strategies for the identified problem/need (considers a minimum of two intervention strategies at a highly detailed level)

Submission evidences a basic review of the current literature to demonstrate consideration of evidence-based intervention strategies for the identified problem/need; submission may consider only a single intervention strategy

Submission evidences a selective or minimal review of the current literature to demonstrate consideration of evidence-based intervention strategies for the identified problem/need, and the submission considers only a single intervention strategy

10

Intervention Strategy: Selection

Submission evidences a clear selection of an intervention strategy that has strong support from the theoretical and research support as it relates to the age- specific population and community through the use of specific, relevant details and real- world examples

Submission evidences a clear selection of an intervention strategy based on theoretical and research support considering the age-specific population and community

Submission evidences a clear selection of an intervention strategy that may lack a clear basis in theoretical and research support or it may not clearly consider the age-specific population and community

Submission evidences a selection of an intervention strategy that lacks a clear basis in theoretical and research support, and it fails to clearly consider the age- specific population and community

10

Intervention Strategy: Ethics

Submission provides a comprehensive review of the ethical and legal implications for using the selected intervention strategy that considers provider as well as client concerns at a high level and provides real-world examples to support claims

Submission provides an extensive review of the ethical and legal implications for using the selected intervention strategy that considers provider as well as client concerns

Submission provides a review of the ethical and legal implications for using the selected intervention strategy that may only consider either provider or client concerns

Submission provides a selective or minimal review of the ethical and legal implications for using the selected intervention strategy, and it only considers either provider or client concerns

5

Implementation Plan: Narrative

Submission presents a highly detailed narrative to describe the setting, personnel, target population, length of time for service, and capacity of the proposed program in a well- organized and implementation- ready level, incorporating real- world examples as support

Submission presents a detailed narrative to sufficiently describe the setting, personnel, target population, length of time for service, and capacity of the proposed program

Submission presents a narrative that may lack detail to sufficiently describe one or more of the following key components: the setting, personnel, target population, length of time for service, and capacity of the proposed program

Submission presents a narrative that lacks detail to sufficiently describe two or more of the following key components: the setting, personnel, target population, length of time for service, and capacity of the proposed program

5

Implementation Plan: Training

Submission presents a highly organized and detailed plan that accounts for the comprehensive training needs of the essential personnel who will supply the services outlined in the intervention strategy and incorporates real-world examples as support

Submission presents a detailed plan that accounts for the training needs of the essential personnel who will supply the services outlined in the intervention strategy

Submission presents a plan that accounts for key training needs of the essential personnel who will supply the services outlined in the intervention strategy; this plan may lack the level of detail necessary to demonstrate full consideration of training needs

Submission lacks a plan that accounts for the training needs of the essential personnel who will supply the services outlined in the intervention strategy, or the plan as presented is minimal for meeting training needs for the selected intervention

5

Implementation Plan: Assessment

Submission provides a highly detailed plan for assessing the effectiveness of the program/intervention strategy and draws upon relevant examples to illustrate (an essential component of grant submission that allows for programs to be considered “evidence based”)

Submission provides a detailed plan for assessing the effectiveness of the program/intervention strategy (an essential component of grant submission that allows for programs to be considered “evidence based”)

Submission provides a general concept for assessing the effectiveness of the program/intervention strategy, yet it may lack clear direction or statistical concepts to meet the goal of the data collection

Submission provides a concept too general for assessing the effectiveness of the program/intervention strategy

5

Implementation Plan: Ethics

Submission evidences a comprehensive assessment of the ethical and legal considerations for implementing the intervention strategy that is grounded in real- world examples

Submission evidences a strong assessment of the ethical and legal considerations for implementing the intervention strategy

Submission evidences an assessment of the ethical and legal considerations for implementing the intervention strategy; this may lack attention to one or more elements necessary for a sound ethical approach

Submission provides minimal consideration of the ethical and legal implications; this submission lacks attention to two or more essential elements necessary for a sound ethical approach

5

Closing Statement

Submission evidences a closing statement which comprises the main points of the grant in a logical fashion

Submission evidences a closing statement which comprises the main points of the grant

Submission evidences a closing statement, but fails to comprise all of the main points of the grant

Submission does not evidence a closing statement

5

Articulation of Response

Submission is free of errors related to APA, citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format

Submission has no major errors related to APA, citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to APA, citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to APA, citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

5

Earned Total 100%

 
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