...Program Planning and Evaluation PEACE Domestic Violence Agency Program Planning and Evaluation Plan Introduction Program planning and evaluation are important to the grant writing process because it helps us lay out what the specific goals are for the program we are trying to fund. In this paper, we will do a comparative analysis of the planning and evaluation process and discuss how they relate to each other. Program evaluation is essential to the planning process because it is where we collect data which allows us to make necessary decisions about how the program should operate in order to achieve the best results in the most timely and cost effective way. Strategic planning can help identify the organizational goals to be achieved over a specific period of time and the resources needed to achieve those goals ( CDC's Evaluation Work Group ) The evaluation report will be useful to many parties involved with the program including core team members, grant organizations, and other social groups which use case study evaluations. Other benefits of program evaluations include: * Determining the impact of products and services on clients * Making program services more accessible and cost effective * Facilitating management of program staff members, including ensuring that they have the necessary knowledge to better serve our clients * The ability to access information from target areas in order to understand what their needs are, and what we can do to meet...
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...also discuss the goals and how they are measured.What are the measurement tools you would use? I chose to evaluate the Peace Domestic Violence Agency which is located in the Portland metropolitan area working with families affected by domestic abuse. Peace Domestic Violence Agency is a non-profit organization with in the major metropolitan of Portland. This agency is set up to help the abused, the family and the abuser. Peace’s mission states to reduce victims of trauma, empower survivors, and through direct services promote recovery. They also are committed through education to reduce sexual assault and domestic violence and to stop individual form condoning the behavior and stop making it the norm. According to the city of Portland domestic violence and youth violence assault and road rage have grown in the last five years. The National Foundation’s funding program strives to fulfill the following objectives. To help the young men, women, and children whose lives have been affected by violence whether domestic, or any other types. The National Foundation’s funding program strives to improve the quality of life in Portland through education and awareness of violence and to help individual who have been the abuser get education or rehabilitation if needed. The Target population that would be most impacted and valued by the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency would be women, children and other family members with-in the...
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...Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal The PEACE Domestic Violence Agency is the scenario chosen by for the remainder of this course. The agency is based out of Portland, Oregon. Portland is a large metropolitan city. Throughout the last five years there have been an increase in reports of domestic and youth violence, spousal and child abuse, assault and road rage incidents. The Organization Mission The PEACE Domestic Violence Agency’s mission is to reduce victim trauma, empower survivors and promote recovery through direct services. PEACE is committed to reducing the incidence of sexual assault and domestic violence through education and strives to challenge societal norms and beliefs that condone and perpetuate violence in the community. Funding Opportunities The National Foundation has two grant programs that provide to not-for-profit agencies. There is a Small Grants Program that can offer one-time grants up to $5,000.00 to registered charities that have an annual budget that is under $500,000.00. There is also an Investor Program. The Investor Program is an innovative funding program that is designed to support up to six organizations under each of the objectives of the Supporting Families Program. This is with up to $150,000.00 per year for up to three years. Grant Proposal Steps. Grants could be written for the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency to assist with funding. While there are several issues within the Portland area, PEACE would benefit greatly from gaining more...
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...Evaluation Plan PEACE Domestic Violence Agency’s main purpose is to provide victim support and shelter, victim advocacy and education, and empower those who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence. To continue helping the many who suffer from domestic abuse, PEACE Domestic Violence Agency will develop an evaluation plan to assess the program services and the effects those program services have on participant’s lives. The purpose of the evaluation is so PEACE can either show means for improvement on provided program services or show means for eradicating the program service all together. The decision to eradicate a provided service or implement improvements is the primary purpose of the assessment. The evaluation plan that PEACE Domestic Violence Agency will employ is a project-wide evaluation with empowerment approach. This particular evaluation plan compliments the domestic violence program offered by the agency due to the amount of concentration put upon the purpose of the program and also provides a structured framework for the programs future success. A project-wide evaluation plan involves the program staff in the evaluation development and implementation process, thus enabling them to feel empowered. The first step in developing a project-wide evaluation plan is to “identify the answer to the big question,” (Yuen & Terao, 2003, p. 53) which in regards to PEACE Domestic Violence Agency is whether or not the cycle of domestic violence can be reduced...
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...HSM/270 Scenario Evaluation Plan The purpose of the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency is to promote a sense of security, support, and empowerment for individuals and families who are affected by domestic violence. To continue helping those who suffer from domestic abuse, the PEACE agency will develop an evaluation plan using a simple framework design. This agency wants to assess the work it is performing, and the reason for evaluation is it wants to know the effects its services have on people’s lives. The program wants to improve upon those efforts, but does not want to continue to exert time and resources into efforts which are not helpful. The evaluation plan the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency will use will be a project-wide evaluation using the empowerment approach. This form of evaluation plan will work perfectly with the agency’s domestic violence program because it concentrates on the purpose of the program and provides structure for the big picture. In addition, it involves program staff in the evaluation development and implementation, which enables them to feel empowered. The first step in developing this type of plan is to “identify the answer to the big question” (Yuen & Terao, 2003, p.53) which, in the case of the PEACE agency, is whether or not the incidents of domestic violence can be reduced and how. Another question could be whether or not educating people about domestic violence can play a key role in preventing it. This evaluation plan...
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...Proposal The PEACE Domestic Violence Agency is a nonprofit organization based out of Portland, Oregon whose mission is to reduce victim trauma, empower survivors, and promote recovery through direct services based out of Portland, Oregon. Over the last 5 years there has been growing cases of domestic and youth violence, road rage incidents, and spousal and child abuse happening within the metropolitan city. PEACE wants to be able to reduce these cases by challenging the social norms and beliefs that condone the violence while also educating the community about the growing problem. PEACE has two separate programs that provide founding to nonprofits: • The Small Grants Program offers one-time grants of up to $5,000 to registered charities with an annual budget under $500,000. • The Investor Program is an innovative funding program designed to support six organizations under each of the objectives of the Supporting Families program, with up to $150,000 a year for up to 3 years. In order to address the growing problem in the Portland community, grant proposals for the organization should be written out in order to receive funding. Writing a grant proposal takes time and patience in order for it to be done properly. There are several steps that are involved in writing a grant proposal which would be from this list: 1. Abstract 2. Table of contents 3. Specific aims 4. Target population 5. Approaches and methods 6. Evaluation plan 7. Agency capacity...
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...will tell you if the programs missions and goals have been achieved or not. PEACE Domestic Violence agencies have a purpose, and the purpose of the Peace Domestic Violence Agency is helping provide the victims with support, shelter, advocacy and education. Giving the victims and those who are affected by domestic violence empowerment will also help them to break away from the abuse. There is a wide range of evaluations that can be used, and it would be best to do some research on the different types to see what works best for the agency or organization. The evaluation plan that would work best for the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency would be a project-wide evaluation with an empowerment approach. A project-wide evaluation will work with the agency's domestic violence program because it not only involves the victims it also involves the staff in the evaluation development and implementation processes. With PEACE being committed to reducing domestic violence and sexual assaults, they can do that by educating the victims and the community. Education will help make a difference in lowering the number of cases of sexual assaults and domestic violence in the community. When developing a project- wide evaluation plan one of the first things you would need to do is "identify the answer to the big question," (Yuen & Terao, 2003). 1. Can PEACE reduce the incidents of domestic and sexual violence? PEACE may also want to ask, Will education play a role in the...
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... PROGRAM PLANNING AND GRANT PROPOSAL WRITING IN HUMAN SERVICES DAKIRA STARKS-WALKER February 24, 2013 PROGRAM PLANNING AND GRANT PROPOSAL WRITING IN HUMAN SERVICES Program Scenario Three PEACE Domestic Violence Agency A written grant proposal for PEACE Domestic Violence Agency would start with the purpose of the grant in which the purpose of this grant would be to write a proposal for funding to help support the needs of victims that are abuse and traumatize from some sort of violence. There is a need for therapy, recovery and some assistance that will lead to empowerment for survivors. When getting started to write a grant proposal all the research and information need to be organized. There are many of different areas that need to be covered when writing a grant proposal. The grant starts by identifying the programs critical needs within the program. The best way to write a grant proposal is to follow the steps of going from section to section. A grant proposal should provide details of your background, your contact information, why you need the grant, introduction of your project, your experience and how the project will help the community. I would ask for $100.000 for two years of service, which would help fund the program PEACE Domestic Violence Agency. Proposal Summary *Limit to one page *State the organization making the request and link organizational background to the proposal purpose *State your project purpose *Briefly state how your...
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...The agency that I chose from Appendix B, is the PEACE domestic violence Agency. The mission for the PEACE domestic violence agency is to empower abuse Survivors, reduce the victim’s trauma, as well as promote recovery through their programs Direct services. In order to provide effectiveness for this agency, as well as succeed, Program planning should be used in correlation with the mission of the organization. There needs to be different components that the planning needs to provide, that includes Inputs, and the planning must also include a theory for its processes and for the Decisions of the program. Another component for this agency’s planning processes, is Program evaluations, to ensure that their services and delivery of services, are actually Providing correctly for their participants, and clients. By conducting consistent program Evaluations, the agency will be able to revise and improve their planning. I believe that finding out great information, is to ask a series of questions, the First question is asking how program planning and program evaluation describe, how the Two components of evaluation and planning are related. In my own opinion, I believe They are deeply related, because once you have a good plan in line, you have to Conduct an evaluation, to see ...
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...issue yet I believe that the commonalities are what includes many agencies to be human service agencies and the differences are what makes up the plethora of agencies still considered human service branches. The Human service agency I chose to work with this block is the Peace Domestic Violence Agency, I am pulled towards this agency because I can see not only does this help abused spouses in a relationship but also children who are most often times the unseen victim. an agency such as this opens up the spectrum for so many that may need to be reached, and on many different levels from basic needs to counseling, from children's delicate needs to protection of a whole family when necessary. let's take these proven statistics as an example[ Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten, and Studies suggest that up to 10 million children witness some form of domestic violence annually.] ("domestic violence statistics," 2012) these statistics are very powerful, and eye opening. let's begin by establishing the mission of the peace domestic violence agency, which is [to reduce victim trauma, empower survivors, and promote recovery through direct services. Peace is committed to reducing the incidence of sexual assault and domestic violence through education and strives to challenge societal norms and beliefs that condone and perpetuate violence within the community.] (Hsm/270 appendix B). agencies of this type where there are many victims or peoples affected generally...
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...purpose of the plan that is to be submitted. (Yuen & Terao, 2003). If there is not a plan, it is virtually impossible for this agency to have a favorable grant proposal. (Yuen & Terao, 2003). Grant proposals are set to have logic when thinking and have some enthusiasm when it comes to the objective. (Yuen & Terao, 2003). According to Yuen & Terao, (2003), stated that a program planning process involves the development and use of activities, such as setting up goals, objectives, activities, and evaluation. Many are familiar with the usage of terms such as what, why, and how in making plans. (Yuen & Terao, 2003). The purpose of PEACE Domestic Violence Agency mission is to reduce victim trauma, empower survivors, and promote recovery through direct services. (Yuen & Terao, 2003). According to Yuen & Terao, (2003), stated that PEACE is committed to reducing the incidence of sexual assault and domestic violence through education and strives to challenge societal norms and beliefs that condone and perpetuate violence in the community. The community that our target population is in, is the city of Portland which is similar to many other communities that are in our country. (Yuen & Terao, 2003). This is a large metropolitan city, and the region has experienced increasing reports of domestic and youth violence, spousal and child abuse, assault, and incidents of road rage over the past 5 years. (Yuen & Terao,...
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...Influences within Public Programs Paper Introduction There is a growing epidemic of domestic violence for women and their spouses or significant others that have been a debated issue for decades, one out of every ten women are reporting domestic violence incidents, from urban decay communities across the nation yearly. The minimalist versus maximalist theory’s has been the primary discussion for victimization in criminology where one perspective decides to look at more variations for the violence, and the other takes the crimes to the necessary degree to provide of government legislatures (NCVC, 2010). With today’s society modernized through time, Americans understand the existing problems of sexual exploitation and violence that is an ineluctable dilemma in society. The cases of domestic violence increase to more than fifty thousand lives which are from violent episode reports. Many victims are in urban communities that have subsidized housing that endure the abuse of their significant other to avoid being evicted if the landlord is alerted of any disturbances involving the tenant. This is a requirement of the public housing assistance program that women receive with low income called Section 8. These women fear reporting the violence against them because there are not many places to go, so they stay and, endure the domestic violence. For the women who do have the strength and courage to report these crimes they are forced to search for refuge in local homeless...
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...Grant Proposal about Domestic Violence Shannoya Jones University of Phoenix 4/12/15 Society only talks about women being abused and not men because it’s a trend man always the one in action. According to (help guide 2015), Emotional abuse includes verbal abuse such as yelling, name-calling, blaming, and shaming. Isolation, intimidation, and controlling behavior also fall under emotional abuse. Additionally, abusers who use emotional or psychological abuse often throw in threats of physical violence or other repercussions if you don’t do what they want you may think that physical abuse is far worse than emotional abuse, since physical violence can send you to the hospital and leave you with scars. But, the scars of emotional abuse are very real, and they run deep. In fact, emotional abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse sometimes even more so. Therefore domestic violence is left women, and men scar for life. First, women always become a weak link to man because they either grow up seeing it or afraid of being hurt. For example, domestic violence also called intimate partner violence that occurs between people in an intimate relationship. Men are sometimes abused by partners, but domestic violence is most often directed toward women and heterosexual or same-sex relationships. It might not be easy to identify domestic violence at first while some relationships are clearly abusive from the outset, abuse often starts subtly and gets worse over time. You might be experiencing...
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...Program Planning and Evaluation Program Planning and Evaluation In the article Peace Domestic Violence Agency, the mission and funding opportunity provide a relational base to tackle needs of domestically abused victims (Dunham, 2008). The document expounds on the necessities required, planning, and assessment, together with evaluation of the abused victims. Human service organizations take us through the urgent needs and requirements tackled when there is a domestic abuse case. There are two aspects involved during this development, that is, the program planning and the program evaluation procedures. Comparison of program planning with program evaluation Program planning, in the Peace Domestic Violence Agency article is a development process that coordinates and facilitates change in identified need and problems while program evaluation entails research purposes rather than involving research methods (Dunham, 2008). In addition, program planning involves an assessment of what has happened and what should have happened while program evaluation handles incorporation into the program planning process to provide a continuous program performance assessment, thus boosting efficiency in human service organizations (Dunham, 2008). In the article Peace Domestic Violence Agency, program planning is related to needs assessment and program evaluation (Dunham, 2008). Needs assessment mainly provides the basis of program development plans, which entail taking a program through...
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...PEACE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGENCY GRANT PROPOSAL Albert McCrae September 13, 2015 Amy Tardy Overview PEACE Domestic Violence Agency came about as the result of a friend that came to office after an abusive incident occurred in their home. After discussing the length of time the altercations had been happening, it was suggested that my friend get professional help. Being a guidance counselor, some phone calls were made and there was no type of shelter available nearby that would take my friend and her two small children in. They suggested she contact relatives to help. In this case my friend has no relatives nearby and was on her own. I decided to take her in until we could figure out what to do. In checking into what help was available in our urban area, the nearest shelter for women was over 50 miles away. Since my friend was working full time and could not commute that distance, it was agreed that she would stay with me until she could save funds to move out on her own. A lawyer was obtained and since the couple was unmarried, the relationship was dissolved eventually with visitation rights for the father a single weekend a month in a public place (mall, children’s play center, etc.) with a social worker nearby because of the violent tendencies of the father (Genesis Women’s Shelter, 2009). After going through this difficult and distressing situation with my friend, I decided to return to school and work on a degree in this area. Soon...
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