Your Program Design and Evaluation Narrativemust include the following components: A description of your community, including background and demographic information on the homeless population in your community A description of the currently available human services programs offered for the homeless population in your community A description of the needs assessment you would implement to understand the motivations and needs of the homeless population in your community (include questions you might ask as part of this assessment) and to understand the effectiveness of the services offered (if more than one, then select one to use for this project) An outline of the data collection procedure you might use: Explain whether the answers to the questions you created would elicit quantitative or qualitative results. Explain how the answers to these questions would inform an evaluation of the program. The motivations and normative, expressed, perceived, and relative needs of the homeless population in your community (use newspapers written by the homeless where possible) A logic model and evaluation strategies to deal with the homelessness problem in your community An explanation of the mission, goals, outcomes, and purpose of the program you would implement An explanation of how the program you designed would address social change in the community
What have you learned about identifying needs and creating effective programs and program evaluations? Using your Discussion and Assignment responses as a launching point, your narrative should include the motivations, needs, needs assessment, mission, goals, outcomes, purpose, logic model, and evaluation strategies to deal with the homelessness problem in your community. *Community is North Carolina
