Final Project: Community Intervention Program Proposal
The final project involves designing a new community intervention program
appropriate for implementation within an organizational (e.g., school,
clinic, NGO), system (e.g., school district, statewide community mental
health) or community setting, for the purpose of addressing a key social
issue of interest to you. Potential issues include but are not restricted
to marginalization, oppression, discrimination, immigration, power,
diversity, adaptation, or recovery. Proposed programs can be situated
within domestic or global contexts. This is a program proposal for
classwork only and you will not be directly contacting people who work in
your community.
In developing your program, be sure to attend to the key components
outlined and discussed by Nelson and Prilleltensky (2010):
1. The issues or problems addressed
2. The values reflected in the program approach and methods
3. The conceptual foundation of the program
4. The action and research tools (i.e., the “science of CP”)
Your program will reflect:
· values and principles that are consistent with the transformative goals
of community psychology (i.e., address liberation and well-being);
· reflect a holistic model (i.e., reflect the synergistic person-ecology
relationship and address personal, relational, and collective well-being);
· involves stakeholders in a participatory process;
· has a clear conceptual (theory/paradigm) foundation;
· and makes use of research and action/intervention tools relevant to the
project purpose and consistent with the conceptual foundation.
You may find it helpful to review the guidelines for program analysis
in Program
Critique document, to make sure that you have adequately addressed the key
components.
The final project consists of two parts: The Program Proposal and the IRB
Proposal
*Part I. * *Program proposal *The Program Proposal should be double spaced,
have a cover page, be in APA format, and include current sources. Always
find a way to weave in current peer reviewed journals into your work. Other
sources which talk about the need for the program might be from the CDC,
the WHO, the NIH, or other reliable sources of data and trends.
The *Program Proposal* should include the following sections:
1. Rationale and significance, which should address the following:
1. Theoretical (conceptual/paradigmatic) and empirical
(research) foundations
2. Importance of the topic (e.g., based on needs relevant to
general population or specific context)
3. Potential significance of the project with regard to
promoting personal, relational, and collective well-being
4. Current data supporting the need for this program
2. Review of relevant literature
3. Purpose of the program
4. Proposed context, environment, and setting for the program
5. Proposed participants/population in the program, including
relevant stakeholder groups involved in developing, implementing,
evaluating, sustaining, and/or institutionalizing the program efforts
6. Proposed action and research methodology for design,
implementation, and evaluation
7. Legal, ethical, sociopolitical, and economic considerations (and
plan for addressing potential challenges with regard to these issues)
*Part II. Program Proposal*
*IRB Proposal*
The *IRB Proposal* involves the considerations for protection of human
subjects and applies to the formative and evaluative research components of
the proposed project. If you want to get program funding each year you will
have to submit collected data to show the difference the program has made.
What data would you need to collect to see if the program was effective?
This would be the research questions under section #11. Use the Walden IRB
form *(*In the Course Info) for developing your IRB proposal (read sections
related to human subjects’ research). The IRB Proposal is submitted to the
course instructor, *not* to the university IRB. Complete and submit only
the “IRB application” form to the drop box. Complete and submit the form
for this assignment.
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