Program Planning and Evaluation
Carolyn Morris
HSM/270
November 24, 2013
Mrs.Dakira Starks-Walker

Program Planning and Evaluation Paper

Program planning is an organized process through which a set of planned activities or interventions is developed to address and enable change in some or all of the acknowledged problems. It is an ongoing process of development with intention of designing a set of activities the will tackle the identified need and problem. Such as the described program in PEACE Domestic Violence Agency. According to the text appendix B, “PEACE 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 disregard and prolong violence in the community”. (Yuen & Terao, 2003,) The program planning must meet the need of the population it mentions in the mission statement. Program planning is the beginning of the program development stage. Program planning is the process every organization goes through, it is the creating of a solution to an issue or problem. Here is where your goals, objectives, and activities are formed. The team is brainstorming what the goal of the agency will be this is the mission statement. The mission statement is the standards for which the organization will function also what the clients can expect the organization to be about what services they offer and what they believe can work for a client.
It is goal-oriented activities based on the assessed needs or problems the programs are attempting to resolve. The program planning not only involves apprehensions with what will happen or already happened. Program planning a test to produce a clear understanding of the problem that needs to be thoroughly examined, measuring client issue type and ruthlessness at entry to provide a applicable interference, to measure client issue type and ruthlessness at exit, and to examine selected signs in a follow-up study to determine long-range outcomes.
Program evaluation provides useful information for improving the programs and the service delivery systems. Program evaluation is to develop the program planning, usefulness, policy, and proficiency but very much alike in that they hold the same goals and mission. The evaluation process takes place after the planning of a program is complete. The plan will be evaluated for its value and competence.
The evaluation can also take place after a program planning has been established and was once evaluated previously. The purpose of program evaluation is to review and enhance the implementation and outcomes of a service or program. It is best for a program plan to be evaluated often for its helpfulness over the years to better serve their community. The general public changes often, so the program planning will have to change as well. Program planning and evaluation is what makes the program and its services effective. This is what will make them achieve their particular goal or mission.
Reiterating the PEACE’s mission proclaim, “According to the text appendix B, PEACE 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 disregard and prolong violence in the community”. (Yuen & Terao, 2003,) The political process is the means by which the organization gains power and legitimacy. I am guessing that at this point in the process the rules and regulations are set in place. What policies should and will be enforced in order to achieve the desired outcome concerning the clients as well to stand on the mission statement which is the goal of the agency. The economic means the process by which the organization gets resources such as clients, staff, and funding. At this point in the planning and evaluating comes the need for resources. Without a targeted population to serve there is no need to be met. The clients are our greatest need without the possible need such as violence, trauma, sexual assault, child abuse, and road rage there would not be a program. The resources are vital to the application of the programs planned activities in the attempt to intervene in an issue or problem. With PEACE we hold the repeated evaluation of our program in high priority in so doing we ensure to pass the evaluation and keep our agency on point to what is important with serving and maintaining an effectiveness of the program.
The technology of human services is the transformations that the program claims will take place if the program is implemented to a certain issue or problem as stated in the mission and values statement. Technology is a professional values-guided application of theories, knowledge, and skills to practice.

Conclusion
Now we have reviewed the components they are related and go hand and hand. The through which a set of planned activities or interventions is developed to address and enable change in some or all of the acknowledged problems. In conjunction with Evaluation which we understand Program evaluation provides useful information for improving the programs and the service delivery systems.

Reference

Yuen, ., & Terao, . (2003). Practical Grant Writing and Program Evaluation. Retrieved from The University of Phoenix eBook Collection database..