Spring 2024 SOWK 460w Week 01 - Introduction to Social Program Evaluation

SOWK 460w Social Service Program Evaluation Jacob Campbell, Ph.D. LICSW Heritage University Spring 2024 Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash

Agenda Plan for Video Introduce the course Introduce myself

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Reviewing Syllabus The Document that Drives this Class SOWK 322 (2): Practice with Persons with Special Needs (3 credits) Jacob Campbell, Ph.D., LICSW Office Hours: By Arrangement Office Location: By Arrangement Course Hours: Asynchronous Spring 2024, Heritage at CBC Email: campbell_j@heritage.edu Cell Phone: (509) 392-1056 Class Location: Online Course Description • Spend time this week reviewing the whole syllabus • Some of the highlights This course provides the student with practical knowledge and skills to work with individuals, families, and communities with longer-term service needs. The student will be required to apply assessment and plan an effective intervention. The following is a listing of specific course prerequisites: None are listed. Course Purpose Social workers often work with vulnerable populations, and these vulnerable populations frequently include persons with special needs. Children with chronic healthcare conditions, developmental disorders, and congenital disabilities commonly access services done by social workers. This course builds on the knowledge and skills for working with individuals to gain further insight into research, applied services, and policy perspectives, reflecting the range of needs for persons requiring special assistance. Relationship to Other Sequences and Other Courses SOWK 322 is an online elective course offered to Toppenish and Tri-Cities Campus students. One of the 2022 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) described by the Council for Social Work Education (CSWE) is for students to engage in diversity and practice differences. Persons with severe disabilities and special needs require specialized services to meet those needs. This class is meant to introduce students to these needs. Land Acknowledgement Heritage University occupies its home on the traditional lands of the Yakama People. These ancestral homelands are the Yakama, Palouse, Pisquouse, Wenatshapam, Klikatat, Klinquit, Kow- was-say-ee, Li-aywas, Skin-pah, Wish-ham, Shyiks, Ochechotes, Kah-milt-pa, and Se-ap-cat, who today are represented by the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation [TREATY OF 1855] and, whose relationship with this land continues to this day. Heritage University, grounded in the vision of the two Yakama women founders, respects Indigenous peoples as traditional guardians of the lands and the enduring relationship that exists between Indigenous peoples and their traditional territories. We offer gratitude for the land itself, for those who have stewarded it for generations, and for the opportunity to study, learn, work, and be in community on this land. We acknowledge that our university’s history, like many others, is fundamentally tied to the first colonial developments in the Yakima Valley. Finally, we respectfully acknowledge and honor past, present, and future Indigenous students who will journey through this home

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􀝋 􁅀 􀐬􀷾 􀉅 􀫘 􁒯 Format & Learning In SOWK 460w Group Discussion and Peer Review In-class Lecture Real World Program Evaluation Asynchronous Weeks and Class time to Work on Evaluation Group Presentation Readings and Other Content Academic Writing & Feedback

Assignments Points 20% 10% 5% Break down of all the assignments this semester 5% A-01: Class Engagement and Attendance A-02: Chapter Reading Quizzes A-03: CITI Research Ethics and Compliance Training A-04a: Individual Weekly Journal Entries A-04b: Group Work Plan for the Program Evaluation A-04c: Agency Logic Model A-04d: Executive Summary for the Program Evaluation A-04e: Program Evaluation Group Presentation 20% 5% 20% 10% 10% A-05a Extra Credit: Review of a Published Program Evaluation A-05b Extra Credit: Descriptive Review of Groups Program Evaluation 10%