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PARAGRAPH ONE 250 WORDS
Your New Initiative
For the assignment in Unit 9, you presented your new initiative. In this discussion, present your
overall work in 250–500 words and support your work with literature.
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
Compare and contrast community outreach approaches.
Compare and contrast evaluation assessment approaches.
Align evaluation assessment approaches with chosen community outreach approaches.
FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING SCORING GUIDELINES
• Analyzes course concepts, theories, or materials co
ectly, using examples or supporting
evidence.
• Applies relevant professional, personal, or other real-world experiences to extend the
dialogue.
• Validates position with applicable knowledge.
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PARAGRAPH TWO 250 WORDS
Your Leadership Abilities in Interagency Collaboration
Throughout this semester, you needed to do a variety of different tasks in considering leading
an interagency collaboration for a new initiative. Present three strengths for this work and three
areas for improvement along with strategies to develop these skills to be comfortable, confident,
and successful in engaging in this work.
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
Evaluate personal skills in leadership, collaboration, and communication.
FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING SCORING GUIDELINES
• Analyzes course concepts, theories, or materials co
ectly, using examples or supporting
evidence.
• Applies relevant professional, personal, or other real-world experiences to extend the
dialogue.
• Validates position with applicable knowledge.
It is important that you and your instructor share a common
understanding of the expectations for this course.
As you continue with your Human Services doctoral education, this course moves you into the
Leadership and Organizational Management specialization. While you may already have
management or administration experience in organizations, this course furthers your
professional development in collaboration across agencies to address community social
problems.
Since some community social problems are larger than an individual organization’s scope of
practice, these problems require interagency planning and collaboration to address these
problems through community outreach and coordinated services. This work requires attention to
a widely diverse group of stakeholders, but also multiple levels and types of stakeholder
elationships. These groups and relationships tend to have a history with implications on any
new interagency initiative that would be undertaken. Related to these are issues of ethics, of
communication, and of the use of technology. This course will explore these aspects through the
equired readings and discussions. They will be applied through Rive
end City scenarios of
interactive media and through assignments relating them to your own community. Upon
completion of this course, you will have a greater understanding of what is required in
conducting interagency collaboration for complex community problems including specific
leadership skills and abilities that are required for this work.
Throughout your program, you will be strengthening your identity as a human services
professional. To view a special interactive tool that has been designed for you to document your
progress. This profile, which will appear in courses throughout your program, is a dedicated
space for you to journal your growth and personal effectiveness as a professional. It will also
provide opportunities for you to share your progress and accomplishments with your peers.
COURSE COMPETENCIES
To successfully complete this course, you will be expected to:
Apply concepts of diversity, ethics, and cultural competency to the decision-making process.
Examine the historical context of an organization in order to effectively engage stakeholders in
contemporary and future planning.
Collaborate using technologically mediated communications in virtual, global, and culturally
diverse environments.
Apply collaborative and communication techniques to develop relationships, partnerships, and
alliances.
Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity,
and integrity of others consistent with expectations for members of the human services
profession.
AN OVERVIEW OF THIS COURSE Unit 1 Getting to Know You and Your Community
INTRODUCTION
Throughout your life, you have been a resident and a member of multiple communities.
Engaging in a community as a resident or a member provides one perspective. Working in an
agency within a community requires a human services leader to have a deeper understanding
of the community. While the agency may provide most of its services on an individual or family
level, the community provides the context of practice.
This unit asks you to explore the concepts of community and community outreach in
elationship. The activity related to Rive
end City is an opportunity for you to get to know a city
and to determine potential information and resources that a human services leader would want
to access to better understand a community.
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
• Access various media sources that highlight the community’s history.
• Identify and access community Web sites.
• Utilize census data and other reputable sources of population statistics.
Rive
end City: Community Web Site
Complete a Rive
end City simulation in which you practice accessing and evaluating
community information. Consider how you can apply what you learn in the simulation to your
Unit 2 assignment and your course project.
Click Rive
end City: Community Web Site to complete the multimedia presentation.
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
• Access various media sources that highlight the community’s history.
• Identify and access community Web sites.
• Utilize census data and other reputable sources of population statistics.
What Is Community?
There are many ways to define and describe a community. Based on your personal experience,
describe a community in which you engage. How does that compare with the ideas from the
equired readings or other literature?
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
Identify and access community Web sites.
What Is Community Outreach?
In the studies, you are presented with a description and two applications of community
outreach. As a human services leader, your organization may regularly be mandated to engage
in some community outreach. What are some of the community outreach activities of your
agency or an organization that you are familiar with? Present at least one with a rationale as to
how it meets the criteria as community outreach.
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
• Describe the community outreach activities of a community organization.