SNHU PSY 638 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric

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The topic is hunger and children not having money for school meals. So  plan is to provide free lunch to all students

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.

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

1.     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.

1.     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?

2.     What is the necessary service or program? How will it address the needs you have examined?

2.     Assessment of Resources: Evaluate available and needed resources in your community.

1.     Evaluate the resources available for providing a program or service such as the one you have identified.

2.     Determine necessary resources that are not available and explain their importance in providing the identified program or service.

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

the prevalence of the identified issue and the lack of community resources.

1.     Articulate how the lack of the identified program or service has an impact on the community.

2.     How is the lack of available resources exacerbating the issue?

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

1.     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?

2.     Theory Survey and Comparison: Survey current developmental theories.

1.     Identify the factors that contribute to the prevalence of the problem according to these theories.

1.     How do these different theories compare? What are their contrasting opinions in regard to prevalence and diagnosis of your identified problem?

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

1.     Efficacy: Analyze and critique at least two established intervention strategies for inconsistencies and effectiveness.

1.     Critically examine intervention strategies for consistency with current developmental theories.

1.     How effective were these strategies in addressing their respective issues? To what extent would these intervention strategies address the issue identified in your community?

1.     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.

1.     Ethics: Analyze the selected intervention strategy for possible ethical and legal challenges. Consider provider as well as client concerns.

1.     Implementation Plan: Construct a plan for implementation of the selected intervention strategy in your community (4–5 pages):

1.     Narrative: Compose a narrative to describe the setting, personnel, target population, length of time for service, and capacity of the proposed program.

2.     Training: Formulate a strategy for the training of personnel according to the selected intervention strategy.

3.     Assessment: Recommend an assessment plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention strategy.

4.     Ethics: Assess the ethical and legal implications for implementing the intervention strategy in your community.

1.     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	Seven	Graded separately; Milestone Three Rubric
	Plan Draft
	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	Submission provides	Submission provides published	Submission provides limited data	Submission lacks credible	5
Identification:	comprehensive research evidence	data that evidences the identified	to support that the identified	research data to support that the
Prevalence	of the existence and prevalence	problem is a prevalent	problem is a prevalent	identified problem is a prevalent
	of the identified problem/need	problem/need for the community	problem/need for the community	problem/need for the community
	for the community and provides
	real-world examples to support
	argument
Problem	Submission contains an extensive	Submission provides evidence in	Submission provides evidence in	Submission provides limited	10
Identification:	and comprehensive list of	the form of links, citations, and a	the form of links, citations, and a	evidence in the form of links,
Assessment of	community resources that may be	description of local resources for	description of local resources, yet	citations, and a description of
Resources	related to the services necessary	their limited capacity to address	it may lack in the examination of	local resources without
	for addressing the identified	the identified problem	the capacity of the resources to	addressing the capacity of the
	problem/need, as well as a		address the identified problem	resources to address the
	detailed description of the limited			identified problem
	capacity to address the identified
	problem and real-world examples
	to support claims
Problem	Submission provides research-	Submission provides research-	Submission provides research	Submission discusses the general	5
Identification:	supported evidence in a highly	supported evidence of how the	evidence of the general impact of	impact of the problem without
Impact of	detailed and professional manner	identified problem will have an	the problem without considering	considering the specific
Problem	that demonstrates the	impact on individuals, families,	the specific community	community or without providing
	comprehensive impact that the	and the community if the		research evidence to support the
	identified problem has been	problem is not addressed		impact of the identified problem
	proven to have on individuals,	proactively
	families, and the community and
	grounds claims in actual examples
	and relevant theory

Literature	Submission provides a	Submission contains substantial	Submission contains limited	Submission does not contain	10
Review:	comprehensive examination of	evidence that the identified	evidence that the identified	evidence that the identified
Problem/Need	the identified problem through	problem/need has been explored	problem/need has been explored	problem/need has been explored
	the use of current professional	through the use of current	through the use of current	through the use of current
	research publications and draws	professional research publications	professional research publications	professional research
	unique connections and insights			publications; research may be
	from the literature			substantially out of date, from
				non-credible sources, or absent
				from the submission
Literature	Submission provides a	Submission provides a review of	Submission provides a review of	Submission lacks a review of the	15
Review: Theory	comprehensive review of the	the literature that demonstrates	the literature that demonstrates	literature for demonstrating
Survey and	literature that demonstrates	professional consideration of	consideration of current	consideration of current
Comparison	professional consideration of	current developmental theories	developmental theories for their	developmental theories for their
	current developmental theories	for their approach to the	approach to the identified	approach to the identified
	for their approach to the	identified problem; this should	problem; the examination of the	problem, and the examination of
	identified problem; this should	include an examination of the	competing or conflicting	the competing or conflicting
	include an examination of the	competing or conflicting	theoretical approaches to the	theoretical approaches to the
	competing or conflicting	theoretical approaches to the	identified problem/need may be	identified problem/need may be
	theoretical approaches to the	identified problem/need	lacking in detail or absent from	lacking in detail or absent from
	identified problem/need and an		this submission	this submission
	illustration from a real-world
	example to support approach
Intervention	Submission evidences a	Submission evidences an	Submission evidences a basic	Submission evidences a selective	10
Strategy: Efficacy	comprehensive review of the	extensive review of the current	review of the current literature to	or minimal review of the current
	current literature to demonstrate	literature to demonstrate	demonstrate consideration of	literature to demonstrate
	professional consideration of	consideration of evidence-based	evidence-based intervention	consideration of evidence-based
	evidence-based intervention	intervention strategies for the	strategies for the identified	intervention strategies for the
	strategies for the identified	identified problem/need	problem/need; submission may	identified problem/need, and the
	problem/need (considers a	(considers a minimum of two	consider only a single	submission considers only a single
	minimum of two intervention	intervention strategies at a highly	intervention strategy	intervention strategy
	strategies at a highly detailed	detailed level)
	level) and uses real-world
	examples to illustrate claims

Intervention	Submission evidences a clear	Submission evidences a clear	Submission evidences a clear	Submission evidences a selection	10
Strategy:	selection of an intervention	selection of an intervention	selection of an intervention	of an intervention strategy that
Selection	strategy that has strong support	strategy based on theoretical and	strategy that may lack a clear	lacks a clear basis in theoretical
	from the theoretical and research	research support considering the	basis in theoretical and research	and research support, and it fails
	support as it relates to the age-	age-specific population and	support or it may not clearly	to clearly consider the age-
	specific population and	community	consider the age-specific	specific population and
	community through the use of		population and community	community
	specific, relevant details and real-
	world examples
Intervention	Submission provides a	Submission provides an extensive	Submission provides a review of	Submission provides a selective	5
Strategy: Ethics	comprehensive review of the	review of the ethical and legal	the ethical and legal implications	or minimal review of the ethical
	ethical and legal implications for	implications for using the selected	for using the selected	and legal implications for using
	using the selected intervention	intervention strategy that	intervention strategy that may	the selected intervention
	strategy that considers provider	considers provider as well as	only consider either provider or	strategy, and it only considers
	as well as client concerns at a high	client concerns	client concerns	either provider or client concerns
	level and provides real-world
	examples to support claims
Implementation	Submission presents a highly	Submission presents a detailed	Submission presents a narrative	Submission presents a narrative	5
Plan: Narrative	detailed narrative to describe the	narrative to sufficiently describe	that may lack detail to sufficiently	that lacks detail to sufficiently
	setting, personnel, target	the setting, personnel, target	describe one or more of the	describe two or more of the
	population, length of time for	population, length of time for	following key components: the	following key components: the
	service, and capacity of the	service, and capacity of the	setting, personnel, target	setting, personnel, target
	proposed program in a well-	proposed program	population, length of time for	population, length of time for
	organized and implementation-		service, and capacity of the	service, and capacity of the
	ready level, incorporating real-		proposed program	proposed program
	world examples as support
Implementation	Submission presents a highly	Submission presents a detailed	Submission presents a plan that	Submission lacks a plan that	5
Plan: Training	organized and detailed plan that	plan that accounts for the training	accounts for key training needs of	accounts for the training needs of
	accounts for the comprehensive	needs of the essential personnel	the essential personnel who will	the essential personnel who will
	training needs of the essential	who will supply the services	supply the services outlined in the	supply the services outlined in
	personnel who will supply the	outlined in the intervention	intervention strategy; this plan	the intervention strategy, or the
	services outlined in the	strategy	may lack the level of detail	plan as presented is minimal for
	intervention strategy and		necessary to demonstrate full	meeting training needs for the
	incorporates real-world examples		consideration of training needs	selected intervention
	as support

Implementation	Submission provides a highly	Submission provides a detailed	Submission provides a general	Submission provides a concept	5
Plan: Assessment	detailed plan for assessing the	plan for assessing the	concept for assessing the	too general for assessing the
	effectiveness of the	effectiveness of the	effectiveness of the	effectiveness of the
	program/intervention strategy	program/intervention strategy	program/intervention strategy,	program/intervention strategy
	and draws upon relevant	(an essential component of grant	yet it may lack clear direction or
	examples to illustrate (an	submission that allows for	statistical concepts to meet the
	essential component of grant	programs to be considered	goal of the data collection
	submission that allows for	“evidence based”)
	programs to be considered
	“evidence based”)
Implementation	Submission evidences a	Submission evidences a strong	Submission evidences an	Submission provides minimal	5
Plan: Ethics	comprehensive assessment of the	assessment of the ethical and	assessment of the ethical and	consideration of the ethical and
	ethical and legal considerations	legal considerations for	legal considerations for	legal implications; this submission
	for implementing the intervention	implementing the intervention	implementing the intervention	lacks attention to two or more
	strategy that is grounded in real-	strategy	strategy; this may lack attention	essential elements necessary for
	world examples		to one or more elements	a sound ethical approach
			necessary for a sound ethical
			approach
Closing	Submission evidences a closing	Submission evidences a closing	Submission evidences a closing	Submission does not evidence a	5
Statement	statement which comprises the	statement which comprises the	statement, but fails to comprise	closing statement
	main points of the grant in a	main points of the grant	all of the main points of the grant
	logical fashion
Articulation of	Submission is free of errors	Submission has no major errors	Submission has major errors	Submission has critical errors	5
Response	related to APA, citations,	related to APA, citations,	related to APA, citations,	related to APA, citations,
	grammar, spelling, syntax, and	grammar, spelling, syntax, or	grammar, spelling, syntax, or	grammar, spelling, syntax, or
	organization and is presented in a	organization	organization that negatively	organization that prevent
	professional and easy-to-read		impact readability and	understanding of ideas
	format		articulation of main ideas
				Earned Total	100%