Models For Proposal Development

Introduction

Divorce has a serious impact on the character of a child as if not checked. And with the rise of divorce, more children will have negative psychological effects in the aim of our program help these victims assist by building a strong level of confidence in them and to Encourage, teach and normalize positive feeling expression to the participants.

Methodology and Evaluation Plan

To ensure the success of any program, we must have a plan of both structure and execution and then to evaluate our every step of the way on how we are making progress during the program.

For the Structure and Evaluation (Methodology) plan, we will address them;

1. Project Description.

2. Design of the research.

3. Human subject.

4. Validity and Reliability.

5. Assumptions and limitations.

6. Timeline.

7. Non-personnel Resources

8. Personnel resources

9. Management Plan

For the Evaluation Plan, we will address the following;

1. Specific criteria.

2. Collection of data.

3. Data Collection Plans.

4. Evaluation of Instruments

5. Periodic Reports.

METHODOLOGY

Program Description A mental health service is created to help youths and children of divorced parents or in the process of divorce. These children go through a lot of pain and suffering and a sense of loss and without a constant watch; they may become a menace in life. These children are exposed to bouts of depression and anxieties, have problems with bullying, and peer pressure or drugs and alcohol. The most important thing is to have someone to turn to when you need help. This is where our service comes in.

Our program is to help these kids and youth that are victims to first of feeling comfortable about themselves that they are not the reason that the parents’ divorce.

We intend to bring these children together and make friends amongst themselves. We’ll hire a peer support specialist who has great experience in youth therapy to help with the education of these children in relating to peer pressure having a sense of social responsibility among other things.

Research design Quantitative methods are particularly useful in our design to measure changes that may likely occur during our program, such as change in a knowledge, intentions, behaviors or health status (impacts or outcomes) or we can be able to generalize results from a sample to the whole of the population group involved.

Our quantitative method will be the use of Surveys will be used to count responses, calculate frequencies, be able to make decisions, and compare different individuals and groups.

To achieve this, we intend to use closed-ended questions which will provide only a limited range of ways of responding to the questions. Such as questionnaires, numerical responses

Human subjects (sample) The human subjects consist of youth’s active of divorced families between the ages of 6 and 12. These youth were randomly selected for our study. The sample was stratified by service sector affiliation, race/ethnicity, and level of restrictiveness of care.

Validity and reliability Validity is defined as when an object measures what it is supposed to measure. Validity of the program was assessed using confirmatory factor analysis to determine whether the content areas truly represented distinct, although related, dimensions of satisfaction.

Preliminary exploration of the validity of the parent version of the Satisfaction Scales for outpatient services supported the existence of four dimensions of satisfaction including:

1. Access and convenience.

2. Child’s treatment process and relationship with the therapist.

3. Parent and family services.

4. Global satisfaction.

Reliability is when an object has been measured multiple times and the readings remain the same. The reliability of the program was accessed using Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths-Mental Health (CANS-MH) scale which is used to assess the type and severity of problem presentation, risk behaviors, functioning, care intensity and organization, caregiver capacity and strengths among children with protective and mental health needs

Assumptions and limitations

The assumptions of the research and program were examined:

· Whether adolescents with adequate coping skills are less likely to commit delinquent behavior or show psychosocial problems.

In our program, we enrolled participants in a 2 weeks workshop activity that will test their intellectual capacity.

The participants participated in creative, participatory research workshops. Seven parents completed short questionnaires. 2 clinical staff and 2 administrative staff took part in workshops to ensure deliverability of young people’s ideas. Young people were offered group work and individual work opportunities.

We discovered that these victims of divorced parents who feel a loss of care, anxiety BUT as we channeled their emotions to creative, it is realized that in the environment of love, which these kids seem to lack, they can actually thrive and be useful and positive to themselves in life.

The limitations of our research are limited to the validity and reliability of the information we receive. The limitations are divided into the following;

· Measure used to collect the data

Collection of data was done through questionnaires. In collating the questionnaires, we may likely find out that there were some questions we didn’t add to it that may be actually vital to our conclusion.

· Access to information

Our access to information depends on having access to people, organizations, data, or documents and, for whatever reason, access is denied or limited in some way, the reasons for this needs to be described.

This access is due to restricted access to information; people are not willing to release some details for privacy concerns etc.