Analyze two national programs that address your identified issue

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Discussion: Capella University Analyze two national programs that address your identified issue.

Question Description:

Final Project: A comparison of two national programs addressing a contemporary issue in studies in human behaviour.

From Units 1–4, you provided an evaluation of a community issue or program and researched its development, goals, and resources. In Unit 5, you expanded this evaluation by focusing on new resources to be integrated in a national response to the issue or program you reviewed. This final project integrates both assignments by asking you to analyze two national programs that address your identified issue.

Using your information from the local research and adding the bibliographic resources to expand that information, you are now prepared to provide an analysis of programs that may have used PAR in their development or may have emerged through more traditional methods. With your expertise in the local community issue, your additional research into national programs and responses to community challenges, your ability to decipher how various disciplines come together to respond to issues at a national level will demonstrate the collaborative responses we incur in the social and behavioral sciences field. Consider the theories, stages of development, diversity, cultural influences, and methods of communication these national programs describe. Focusing on the larger response and the vital components of national programs, you will see the interdependency of organizations and individuals providing sources to meet a common goal.

The project consists of a 15–20-page paper including abstract, table of contents and references, that compares and contrasts two national programs that have used multidisciplinary responses to a topic similar to the issue you defined in your local community. For example, if you chose to study teen programs in your community for after school support and presented your PowerPoint on that topic, your final paper will be a comparison of two national programs that do support teen after school programs.

Viewing the collaborative efforts from a multidisciplinary perspective your paper, comparing and contrasting two national programs that address this specific topic, will include:

The introduction, historical background, and literature review of the topic of concern (3–5 pages).

The composition of the programs—including stakeholders, leaders, developers, and participants.

The resources incorporated to address the problem including organizations, grants, advocates, structures, et cetera.

The integration of organizations responding to the need, including information on leadership, advocacy, and collaborative efforts and required to develop and maintain the program.

The cultural components of the programs and the specific services provided with a focus on diversity within the population, provided from psychological, sociological, and human development orientations.

The summative results of the national program and its level of success.

Your suggestions for improvement considerations in both programs based on a collaborative perspective.

Your paper will evaluate these programs, not merely list, and determine the similarities and differences in composition and service delivery focusing on the development of collaborative efforts that have responded to this need. Your consideration of leadership, advocacy efforts, organization of the program that addresses diversity and culture is important. In addition, viewing national resources as compared to those locally used for your topic should provide you with a great insight into the differences of opportunities available at different levels of implementation.

Work with the Capella Writing Center and utilize the Compare and Contrast Evaluation document that is linked in the Resources. This document includes links that provide specific information as to the construction and development of your paper that compares and contrasts two national programs addressing your contemporary issue in human behavior studies.

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Discussion: Capella University National Programs Addressing Poverty and Homelessness Paper

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.

Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.

One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.

I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.

In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.

Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).

Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).

Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.

I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.

As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.

It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.

Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.

Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?

Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.

Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.

If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.

I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.

As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:

Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.

Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.