Category: Human Services

1. Create a Graph showing the practical approaches to address the social problem according to interviewers
• Bar Graph: This is ideal for comparing the frequency or magnitude of different approaches suggested by interviewers. Each bar can represent a different approach, with the height of the bar indicating how often that approach was suggested or its perceived importance.
• Bubble Chart: For three-dimensional data (e.g., frequency of suggestion, perceived effectiveness, and ease of implementation), a bubble chart can be used. The X and Y axes represent two variables, while the size of the bubble represents the third dimension
2. Create a Graph showing barriers to address the social problem, barriers in applying the three current theories, barriers using
• Heat Map: If you have data that involves cross-tabulation (like different barriers experienced in different theories or research areas), a heat map can visually represent this data where the color intensity indicates the severity or frequency of each barrier within each category.
3. Create a Graph showing the possibilities of positive change using the proposed theories ad recommendations of participants.
• Radar Chart: If you want to compare multiple theories or recommendations across various attributes of positive change (like impact, feasibility, scalability), a radar chart can visually display this multi-dimensional data in a comparative manner.
• Stacked Bar Chart: If there are multiple components or dimensions of positive change (such as social impact, economic benefits, environmental improvements), a stacked bar chart can show how different theories or recommendations contribute to each aspect of change.
• Pie Chart: To illustrate the proportion of each theory or recommendation’s contribution to overall positive change, a pie chart can be effective. This works well when you want to emphasize the relative significance of each component in a holistic view.
4. Create a Graph showing the differences/comparisons of the urban and suburban schools and their service and educational offers according to comparison. Graph showing the historical difference between urban and suburban schools.
• Stacked Bar Chart: If you want to show multiple data points (like different types of services or educational programs) within each school type, a stacked bar chart can be useful. This allows for a comparison of the composition of services and offerings in urban versus suburban schools.
• Scatter Plot: If you’re looking to explore correlations between two variables (such as school funding versus student performance), scatter plots can be insightful. You can use different colors or symbols to distinguish between urban and suburban schools.
• Heat Map: For a more complex dataset, like comparing a wide range of services across many schools, a heat map can visually represent this data. Different colors can indicate levels of service offerings, with one axis representing urban schools and the other suburban schools.
5. Create a Data/graph showing the consensus of the interviewer’s answers to the research questions. (open ended ones) and another graph showing the explanations to the open-ended questions.
• Word Cloud: This is a popular choice for visualizing open-ended responses. Words that are mentioned more frequently in the responses are displayed larger in the cloud. This gives a quick visual impression of the most common themes or topics in the answers.
• Thematic Bar Chart: First, categorize the responses into themes or common topics. Then, use a bar chart to show the frequency of each theme. Each bar represents a different theme, and the length or height of the bar indicates how many times that theme appeared in the responses.
• Pie Chart: Similar to the thematic bar chart, after categorizing the responses, you can use a pie chart to show the proportion of each theme relative to the whole. This is useful for emphasizing the relative significance of each theme.
For the second part, visualizing explanations to open-ended questions:
• Flow Chart or Mind Map: These can be effective for showing the relationship between different parts of the explanations. For instance, a flow chart can illustrate how one idea leads to another, or a mind map can show the central idea and how other ideas branch out from it.
• Hierarchical Bar Chart: If the explanations can be broken down into a hierarchy of themes and sub-themes, a hierarchical bar chart can visually represent this structure, showing how different aspects of the explanations are related and their relative frequencies.
• Stacked Bar Chart: If you can categorize the explanations into several consistent themes, and each theme has sub-categories, a stacked bar chart can show this breakdown. Each bar represents a theme, and the segments in the bar represent the sub-categories.
• Sankey Diagram: This is useful for showing the flow of themes or categories within the explanations. It can illustrate how different aspects of the responses are interconnected and the relative weight of different paths or themes.
6. Create a Graph showing historical data of crime, poverty, etc. from the 1950s to present as it relates to Black folks.
• Timeline Chart: To highlight key events or policy changes that might have impacted crime or poverty levels, a timeline chart can be integrated with your data visualization. This provides context to the data and helps in understanding how external factors may have influenced trends.
• Heat Map: For complex datasets, such as comparing multiple metrics across several decades, a heat map can visually represent this data. Different colors can indicate levels of each metric, with one axis representing time and the other the metrics.
• Scatter Plot: If you’re exploring correlations between two variables over time (for example, the relationship between poverty levels and crime rates), scatter plots can be insightful. You can use different colors or shapes to represent different decades.
• Line Graph: This is ideal for showing changes and trends over a long period. You can plot years on the x-axis (from the 1950s to the present) and the metric (like crime rates or poverty levels) on the y-axis. If you’re comparing multiple metrics (e.g., crime and poverty), you can use different lines for each, possibly with different colors for clarity.
7. Create a Graph that shows the correlation between historical data and the interviewees’ testimonies/experience/knowledge
• Scatter Plot: This is ideal for showing correlations between two sets of data. On one axis, you can plot a historical metric (like crime rates, poverty levels, or educational attainment), and on the other axis, you can plot a quantifiable aspect of the interviewees’ testimonies (such as their perceived social mobility, satisfaction with education, etc.). Each point on the scatter plot represents an interviewee’s response in relation to the historical data.
• Dual-Axis Line Graph: This graph allows you to plot two different types of data that have different scales but are related. For example, you could have historical crime rates on one axis and a measure of interviewees’ sense of community safety on the other. The two lines will help visualize how these different datasets may correlate over time.
• Stacked Area Chart: This can be used to show how different themes or aspects from the interviews (like sentiments or topics) stack up against each other over a historical timeline. This visual representation can help in understanding the relative prominence of different experiences or knowledge areas over time.
• Correlogram: If you have multiple variables from both historical data and interviewee responses and you want to show the correlation between all these variables, a correlogram can be used. This shows the correlation coefficients between each pair of variables in a matrix format, often color-coded for ease of interpretation.

Students will submit a PowerPoint Presentation in Module 5:Week 5.
• A 14-15 Slide PowerPoint directly related to Deal’s book and required sources.
o Title and Reference slides are not included in the total slides.
• Number of References: In addition to Deal’s book and PREPARE/ENRICH materials a minimum of 5 scholarly sources are required to be referenced and cited.
• Required sources: Deal’s book and five peer-reviewed articles published within the last five years related to the topic of single parents dating.
• Students will use the current APA standards citing and references resources. and present ideas in a professional (graduate level) writing and academic voice. Points will be deducted for failure to follow current APA Standards, which includes the use of correct proper citations, and references.
• Slides
o Title Slide to include your name
o Introduction
o Slide with at least 3 specific learning outcomes. Learning outcomes are essentially what your audience will gain by participating in the training. For example: At the end of this presentation the audience will be able to” (Example): discuss, identify, articulate, define, particular aspects that you desire for them to learn and gain from the training exercise.
o Slide with “Defined Audience and Location.” For example, the audience would be a group of single parents hosted by identifying the group such as a church or faith group.
 Date and Times of the Proposed Meeting
 Location of the Proposed Meeting
o Presentation Slides:
 Identify and integrate key concepts from Dating and the Single Parent (Deal), PREPARE/ENRICH, and scholarly research (five articles) for your audience that will assist them in understanding decision-making regarding dating as a single parent. Focus on creating a focused and integrated presentation versus repeating what is provided in any of the course or scholarly sources.
 Provide detailed subpoints which support your primary key concepts.
 Include “ice-breakers” or other activities that you use to engage your audience to build a sense of group cohesiveness and discuss the purpose of the activity.
 Include biblical references
 Cite sources in the Presentation Slides
 Limited graphics can be included as needed.
o Conclusion: Summarize key points addressed in the PowerPoint presentation.
o Reference slide
Link to book:
MBS Direct: Dating and the Single Parent: * Are You Ready to Date? * Talking With the Kids * Avoiding a Big M (vitalsource.com)
5 additional articles is needed to in addition to required book.

You are to select one leader that has been in the news related with how he or she has dealt with recent challenges such as the protests for police reform, gun violence, increase in crime, violence against gays and restrictions on transgender youth, etc. Examples include Trump, Biden, police chief in Fayetteville or Raleigh, mayors of cities in NC, Governor Copper, members of Congress, candidates running for president or some of the church leadership. You need to research specific actions and communication (actual quotes) that the leader has carried out. You then need to use concepts from Chapt 8 and 12 to describe their leadership style/strength and their communication skills. Be clear to state the concept from the textbook and define it. You may also find concepts from Chap 11 useful. You should end the paper with your assessment of the leader’s effectiveness. The paper should be a minimum of 3 full pages, double spaced. If you are below the minimum go back and find other news coverage of the leader.
Please properly cite in APA style all references used in this paper, including the textbook. If you need assistance preparing a paper in APA style please see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/10/ (Links to an external site.)

Professor recommendation: it is ok to use the same material from your midterm exam narratives, however you should build on it to write about 5 rather than three articles, make corrections based on comments I put in the midterm and put the discussion into a narrative form appropriate for a paper rather than in the midterm style where you had numbers and titles before the paragraphs for each article etc. At the end of the Needs Assessment you can put a Reference list in APA format with the references you used.
Student recommendation to writer: the paper and follow professor’s instructions which will be on the right of the paper

Choose a topic from the class or readings on “Communication”.
Define the chosen concept exactly in quotes, with an in-text citation. Provide three distinct reasons why this topic is important. Use complete sentences, not bullet points. Provide in-text citations for each sentence. Provide a References list at the end.
Use APA style throughout. Eliminate all errors of spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Use Word documents only. Other formats will not be accepted

Special Assignment #2:
Combine Topic Outlines (Decision Making and Managing Stress – see attached for outlines) into a more complete outline. It should address the question: What should effective mangers know about these three topics (spelled out in Topic Outlines #4-6)?
Provide distinct reference citations for each point. Use APA style. Word documents only. Label the outside of the document: LASTNAME-SA-2. Put your name and the name of the assignment on the inside of the paper as well.

Apply the steps in policy analysis to the problem identified for Constructive Action – The Constructive Action is Program Effectiveness for Asylum Seekers with Children
Public policy is what officials within government do to solve problems that citizens perceive to be unacceptable and require intervention. An important area in the study of public policy is the role of policy actors within our federal system of government. A second area is policy process (what steps we have to go through to determine policy). Policy analysts have developed a policy process model to identify the major stages of policymaking from agenda setting and policy formulation to policy change. A third important area of study is policy analysis. Analysts have identified the major steps in policy analysis such as defining and analyzing the problem, constructing policy alternatives, and assessing the alternatives. Policy analysis is both an art and a craft that includes empirical investigation and a normative assessment (notions of what is right and wrong, empirical) of options. Political ideologies (such as conservatism and liberalism play a role in the analysis.
Policy = Solution
In the paper explain Orientations to Policy Analysis (see attached)

Introduction
This week we will continue the process of compiling your edited and polished work for your portfolio, demonstrating your mastery of a selected learning outcome from your program.
Instructions
Select one learning outcome from your program of study, utilizing a different outcome than previously selected. Then, select two graded artifacts (i.e., written assignments, projects, papers, discussion posts, or responses) that you feel best demonstrate your mastery of the selected program outcome.
When selecting a previous work sample, you can review and retrieve your Waypoint assignments from previous courses from within Waypoint itself.
Utilizing the feedback you received on these artifacts from your instructor as well as the things you have learned since submitting this work, revise and expand on these artifacts to create polished and corrected examples you can add to your portfolio.
Utilize track changes to make additions, corrections, and changes to your work in order for the instructor to review the changes that were made.
Add two additional professional and current resources to support and improve your artifacts.
Utilize track changes to make additions, corrections, and changes to your work in order for the instructor to review the changes that were made.
Add two additional professional and current resources to support and improve your artifacts.

Compare and contrast the Democratic and the Republican parties. Identify at least three (3) ideological differences between the parties. What do the parties represent, what do they stand for?

Define, examine, and evaluate the Democrats’ and the Republicans’ platform/agenda current agenda. What is the Democrats’ agenda, and likewise for the Republicans, what do they hope to accomplish, and what are their major issues and concerns? Listen to the news, read newspapers, explore various websites, and determine how both the Democrats and Republicans are aiming to achieve their goals over the course of the next several years.

Of the items chosen in question #2 above, select any (3) three items/issues that specifically will have an impact on the area of human services. From your perspective, what potential impact will it have on the country if the proposed agendas are implemented or are carried out?
What can be done to engage more people in the process? To actually make the process more of a government for the people, by the people.

Conclude the paper by stating your feelings on this entire process. Including….In your opinion, are the parties on point and have a good handle on what is important to the masses, the majority of people in the country? What do you feel are the most important issues and why? Are the issues and concerns you have being addressed? If not, what other issues/concerns need to be addressed?

I. Problem Statement
• Describe how, with close discussion with your field supervisor, you identified a potential need. What is the need?
• Why is this need important for the organization to address?
• What will happen to the organization if this need is ignored? What evidence do you currently have that this is a critical need?
• How is this need related to the organization’s mission, mandate and services?
• What opposition or challenges do you expect in trying to resolve this issue?
II. Literature Review (Asylum Seekers and their families)
I attached a submitted literature review for your records/reference
• Review some of the literature that has been published about your identified need. Attempt to review critical works that contribute to your understanding of the need.
• Identify a minimum of 5- scholarly works that have attempted to discuss this need in the past. For each:
 What was the specific need/problem that the author discussed?
 What were the major points the author tried to communicate about this need/problem?
 What can you specifically learn from the author that can be used to address your own “organizational need”? What can you adapt? In what ways is this author’s work not helpful?
 Attempt to synthesize the material to demonstrate the continuities, strengths and shortcomings of the existing literature. Position how your own project will contribute to this body of work
 Describe the role of using research to establish the need. You may discuss material from your text.
III. Key Words
• Identify 3-4 key terms or phrases that are relevant to your need which the reader needs to understand
• Put the definition of the term including a citation showing the source for your definition in correct APA style