Based on your findings and assessment of your chosen community, you will develop a proposal that lays out a program/project description for addressing the problem you have identified.
The proposal should have the following elements:
I. Statement of Need: This section serves as a summary of the community assessment document you just created. This is where you should highlight the most important points of your needs analysis, being sure to also address specific cultural considerations.
II. Program Proposal Description: In this section, you will describe the evidenced-based program you think the community should implement and discuss how and why it will make a positive difference in the community.
III. Goals and Objectives: This section is an opportunity for you to offer a comprehensive description of what your program aims to do and how those goals will be achieved. Define potential measurable improvements in behavior, performance, and process, or highlight a tangible item that will result from the project.
IV. Method/Intervention: This section should include a detailed description of the activities required to achieve the project objectives. You will summarize them in the Intervention column in the logic model chart and then explain them in the body of your paper.
V. Staffing/Administration/Resource Needs: This section should cover the resources necessary to implement your program, such as staffing and overall budget needs (the resources column in the logic model chart). It should include a short description of the number of staff members needed, their qualifications, and a brief summary of what they will do. You will summarize the information in the provided chart template and explain it within your paper.
VI. Program Evaluation Plan: The logic model chart that you will add as an appendix represents your program evaluation plan. You now need to describe the data collection process. This section is a description of how the organization will know the project is a success. What methods will be used to evaluate success? What types of measures will be used? Who will do the measurement? What data will need to be collected? Who will collect the data?
VII. Guidelines for Program Implementation and Stakeholder Communication Tool: You will begin by creating an implementation plan using the provided Implementation Plan Chart Template, which will be placed in Appendix B and described in this section of your capstone project. You will also identify one
key stakeholder that you want to communicate with. Describe a communication tool that you determine would be most effective in gaining support for the proposed program from that one key stakeholder. A key stakeholder could be a mayor, governor, member of law enforcement, superintendent, legislator, or other person. Examples of appropriate communication tools include but are not limited to:
Professional presentation that is designed for a specific audience
Editorial for potential publication in the local paper in your community
A letter for potential distribution to local media, with the goal of getting the story published or featured on the local news
A letter for potential distribution throughout the community
Social media messages
Regardless of your chosen communication tool, you must build a solid communication plan for a specific target audience that aims to convince them and gain buy-in for your ideas. For instance, your presentation might be crafted to be given before constituents at a town hall meeting or community leaders that have influence on ensuring that your proposed program moves forward. Your choices essentially depend on your overall project: your community, the identified problem, the data that you gathered in your needs assessment, and your program proposal.
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