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Social Service Program Development

Assignment Overview
Based on your work in the Unit 3 Macro Analysis Paper and the Unit 6 Macro Analysis Presentation, you now develop a program that eliminates a gap you identified in your research surrounding the selected problem. You need to do additional research to support the social service program you develop. Additionally, you need to interview an expert in the problem area for guidance on strategies and skills in the development of a program.

Assignment Description
Prior to developing a program, you need to do the following:

Identify an existing gap in the strategies or skills used to address the problem you identified for your Unit 3 assignment. The gap could also pertain to the sustainability of the strategies or the improvement in the quality of social service delivery addressed in your Unit 6 assignment. You need to identify a gap in the existing strategies that you have read about and presented on.
Conduct additional research for peer-reviewed resources to determine an appropriate program. Your program needs to be based on peer-reviewed research, but can also be guided by your experience in the field.
Interview one social work leader who is an expert in your particular problem area to learn about strategies and skills that may address the identified problem.

Assignment Instructions
In your paper:

Identify and describe a problem that arises from a gap in the existing best practice strategies.
Assess this gap based on what you learned when completing your previous macro-level assignments in Units 3 and 6.
Explain how the problem emerged from your previous macro-level analysis.
Develop a social service program to address the identified problem, using multiple sources of knowledge, including research-based knowledge and practice wisdom. Use the following format:
Vision statement.
Mission statement.
Goals.
Objectives.
Methods and activities.
Implementation plan.
Evaluation metrics.

Identify the method of evaluating the program. Be sure it identifies how you know if the program is helpful or not, and how you measure change in your social service program.

Integrate technology into the program. Identify at least one technology (or way to use technology) in your program and support your chosen method with content from your literature review.

Integrate theory by using multiple sources of research and practice wisdom in the social service program.

Use this section as an annotated bibliography to show content you have learned about theory and how to use it in your program.

Reflect on the process of developing a social service program to target a specific problem. In your reflection:

Demonstrate how you integrated theory and practice when completing this assignment.

Write your summary from the annotated bibliography above as it synthesizes the literature more directly to address your identified problem.

Provide leadership in promoting sustainable change in service delivery.

Evaluate the feasibility and sustainability of the program. Support your assessment with peer-reviewed literature.

Discuss how you provide leadership in promoting sustainable change in service delivery and practice.