Social Work Your Program Flowchart

Social Work Your Program Flowchart

Purpose

This week’s Peer Exchange assignment is related to data collection. You will develop a Program Flowchart as illustrated in your readings on data information systems. This flowchart needs to address all areas indicated below.

Instructions

You will create an actual flowchart so that you can discuss it and refer to it as your visual aid. In your video, discuss each aspect of the flowchart, where data is collected in the process (this could be several places), and types of analysis that can be completed with this data. Explain to your board members how you will use this data to make program-level decisions about services being provided and illustrate this with an example from your evaluation.

Discuss each of these in the video you create.

Your video presentation needs to include:

A program flowchart for the program that has been evaluated.

Each place where data collection happens on the flowchart.

At least two types of analysis that can take place with this data.

An explanation of how the data can be used for program-level decision making.

An example of program-level decision making being guided by the data analysis from your evaluation.

Tender Love: Program Goal

Tender Love’s Grief and Loss support group serves the caregivers, families, and other loved ones as they begin the process of grieving. This program provides a safe space for families and individuals to share, connect, openly and confidentiality as they mourn for loved ones who are suffering with a terminal illness or who are no longer with us. It is our goal to support each participant through the grieving process by means of individualized counseling, connection to necessary resources, and ultimately, guide clients to a place of hope and empowerment. This goal encompasses the purpose of the program, highlights the population it will serve, and how the program will accomplish this task.

From a perspective that promotes positive change rather than recovery from grief, the program objectives were created to guide families and loved ones through the grieving process using methods such as psychoeducation, family, and individualized counseling. As well as to assist clients in achieving a sense of empowerment, normalcy and improved well-being and fostering healthy and supportive connections within the group where individuals can be vulnerable in a confidential and trusting setting.

This will be indicated by participants ability to return to daily functions and the ability to avoid unhealthy living patterns (i.e. sudden substance use, isolating, aggressiveness irritability, etc.). In addition, participation and completion will be indicated in the following options:

(1) Attendance to a maximum of three grief educational classes in a thirty-day period, (2) At least one individual grief counseling session on a biweekly basis every thirty days, and (3) Attendance of a grief support group on a weekly basis. These services will be offered for up to two years upon the commencement of services with the program. However, the overall indicator that the program as proven effective is participant satisfaction as evidenced by the clients partnering with support groups or other community-oriented programs as well as surveys provided upon completion or discharge from the program.

The selected objectives for the program were chosen to guide and provide grieving individuals the tools necessary to allow for a journey of healing, that consists of support, guidance, and knowledge so that the individuals can regain empowerment in a situation where control was out of their hands in the midst of loss of their loved one. The objectives are tailored to adjust to whatever the needs are of the loved one that is grieving and will attain long-term outcomes as individuals learn to cope with loss. The services as provided are all inclusive to fit the needs of the grieving individual as the process fluctuates between denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and acceptance. Awareness and understanding of grief and the spontaneity of its stages is crucial in providing assistance to participants that they can gain the tools to move forward with their lives. In addition to allowing our participants the options to choose how they want to go about the grieving process.