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My current position as a Residential Day Program Coordinator for nonprofit agency, requires me submit reports on consumer progress weekly. This information includes treatment plan goals, collected data on therapeutic group attendance, and consumer progress in relativity to accomplishing their goals.

The reports also include a note and/or report that summarize the consumer's comprehensive levels, participation skills, and affects during group facilitation. There are some visual aspects within my weekly reports. I include table charts that track goal achievement progress and group attendance weekly.

"Visual aids add richness to what are otherwise lean information channels.Proposals and reports can be augmented with various forms of visuals. The most important thing to remember about visual aids is that they should add value to the document by providing information, making a written point clearer, or by displaying and summarizing data (Baack, 2012)."

I feel as though the table charts that I include in my reports serve as a visual aid to the information of which I am submitting by making the content easier to follow and comprehend the data.

As Baack states, "Tables provide information in the form of numbers. Tables are less visually compelling, but often represent the best choice for providing statistics and raw numbers (2012)."

In my field of social work, there are so many details that go into our note taking process, therefore, when submitting a weekly report, a chart is easier for readers to quickly identify what progress is being measured and compare the reviews from previous weeks.

Baack, D. (2012). Management communication.