The assignment is for the student to search program evaluation reports and complete the criteria that were provided by the instructor, such as identify the evaluation it illustrates, and identify the methodological strengths, and weaknesses. The article, “D.C. Department of Mental Health School Mental Health Program SY 07-08 Report”, discussed the limitations and barriers of learning opportunities provided to many helping professionals within the school districts, youths, and the parents. This program offers services that are individualized to the schools and provide adequate services that are evidence-based treatments. This program was implemented in multiple school districts to help the students and make the schools a safer environment. …show more content…
Therefore, the article evaluate the effectiveness of the evidenced-based services that was provided to the students. The outcome of the services that were most utilized are Good Touch Bad Touch, Connect With Kids, and Botvin’s Lifeskills were the most effective programs for the students. The Satisfaction Surveys were distributed among children and youth receiving services; however, there were limitations that affected the results. Also, the parents, teachers, and school staff completed the satisfaction survey to obtain their viewpoint on their satisfaction of the clinicians. The children, youths, and the parents filled out the survey on their positive experiences that they had with the clinician. The teacher and staff filled out their satisfaction survey that pertained to the effectiveness of the clinician when working with the students at the end of the year. At the end of the year, the surveys were distributed to the school administrators to be completed and returned to the School Mental Health Program. In addition, there were assessments that the principal had to rate their perceptions on the school atmosphere. Also, the School Mental Health Program clinicians provided workshops that were affiliated with the school. At the workshops, the clinicians distributed satisfaction forms that were provided to the respondents and collected by the clinicians. First, evaluation illustrates is the satisfaction of the participants that received
“Nearly 5 million children in the U.S. have some type of mental illness” (Goldberg). It is agreeable that there are many young children that deal with mental illness every day. Schools should be concerned for every student’s well being. Moreover, mental health is a part of a person’s overall “well being.” Therefore, schools need to make the mental health of students a stronger focus and implement plans to keep students mentally well and educated. To help create a positive, mental health aware environment where students feel open to seek help, high school students should be educated on how to be mentally healthy, be given a safe place to seek help, and be encouraged to monitor and maintain their mental health. Mental illness and mental health care need to be a more eminent priority in our society, starting with high schools.
The Comprehensive School Counseling Program Notebook which follows the ASCA National Model third edition was created in School Counseling Programs. This notebook is divided into four components as directed by the comprehensive school counseling program: foundation, delivery, management, and accountability. The Foundation section includes my core beliefs, my vision, my mission, rationale, description, and goals of the program at Mountain Home Junior School. Delivery, Management, and Accountability (AR 1.2).
For my informational interview I interviewed Hasty Elementary School Counselor Candace Thurman. Mrs. Thurman earned her B.A. in Psychology from Salem College and a MA Ed.S in Mental Health Counseling from Gardner Webb University. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed School Counselor. Her maternal grandfather suffered from mental illness and was homeless. Seeing the impact his condition had on him as well as her family compelled her to choose a career in mental health. Mrs. Thurman worked in the middle school setting for 11 years. This year is her first year in an elementary school.
Evaluating the Consultation and Education Department funding at the Greenby Mental Health Center is the focus of this paper. The centers funding has been reduced. Additionally the reduction in funding will cause the organization to consider closing down their consultation and education department. First I will describe one process evaluation measure as well as one outcome evaluation measure, which could be an optional recommendation for the Greenby Community Mental Health Center. These measures will help to show the
To ensure that my program evaluation is objective, credible and fair I would employ internal and external counselors or advisors as well as align my program evaluation with the standards and practices of the professional body of evaluators. These “advisors “may or may not include the program stakeholders, but would not negate the formal process of collaborating with key stakeholders. Rather, the purpose of my advisor team is to see and hear things I missed.
The Program Evaluation class at Delaware State University mandated that all students in the class of SCWR 651-60 (CRN 15732) conduct a Needs assessment of the practicum that they was attending for the semester.
The Greenby Community Mental Health Center is facing a huge dilemma. The Consultation and Education Department is about to go under. To display the program’s effectiveness and efficiency developing process evaluation measures as well as outcome evaluation measures are necessary. Developing the scope and the purpose of the process and outcome evaluation measures are important on the influence of the design of evaluating the organization. There are issues and challenges that may arise from evaluating the Greenby Community Mental Health Center. Because of the directors situation an evaluation may be helpful to Greenby Community Mental Health Centers Consultation and Education
The Greenby Mental Health Center funding has been cut back. The cut back in funding has caused the organization to look at possibly doing away with their consultation and education department. This paper will describe at least one process evaluation measure and at least one outcome evaluation measure that could be suggested for the Consultation and Education Department at Greenby Community Mental Health Center to display the program effectiveness and efficiency. The paper will also explain the scope and purpose of the chosen process evaluation and outcome evaluation measures and how they influence the design.
Nathaniel Bowditch is a school in the Salem Public school district. This school currently educates children from kindergarten through the eighth grade. Within the school, I volunteer my time with the adjustment counselor for students in kindergarten through fourth grade. Throughout this paper, I will be discussing the counseling services at Nathaniel Bowditch through a client’s perspective. I will be discussing this client under the pseudonym of J, to ensure the privacy of the client. All of the information I will be using throughout this essay is from the client herself or her counselor. The goal of this paper is to discuss a background of the client, why and how long
The purpose of this paper is to examine the current programing at The Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County (RCC), as well as the current measures it uses for evaluating the services they provide. The program will be described with an emphasis on the counseling and case management programs, which currently do not have a method of gaining the clients’ perspective of how well a counseling or case management session went. A needs assessment for the Counseling and Case Management Programs will be provided along with suggested improvements and an improved evaluation tool suggestion.
This paper is an overview of mental health professional with several years’ experience to be a consultant to a local district superintendent. Based on information gather from a phone call from the superintendent regarding three students and a teacher that was severely stabbed by a student. This has been in the media for about two weeks. During this time, the superintendent has been receiving complaints from people in the community, parents and teacher stating that security measures are not adequate and that discipline for the student are lax. My responsibility as a MHP consultant is to develop a plan of action, intervention and my recommendation to the superintendent. To help improve communication within the community about the school, student, teachers and administrate staffs.
There has been an increasing focus on improving the quality of mental health care provided to youths and their families (Kerig & Lindahl, 2001). Many different observational coding systems are being implemented in school settings, as well as in clinical research, to naturalistically capture the specific behaviors within mental health services. Observational coding systems can vary in their content and methodology. The ultimate goal is to better understand how adults and parents can help children achieve developmental success in family life and in school settings, in order to better prepare them for the future, and for health providers to improve care quality. In this review, I will outline several observational coding systems developed for mental health contexts that have been used in clinical research settings to illustrate the advantages and challenges of each. My discussion will include the following coding systems: Iowa Family Interaction Rating Scales (IFIRS), the Classroom Observation Code (COC), the School Observation Coding System (SOCS), EBP Concordant Care Assessment (ECCA), and Therapy Process Observational Coding System (TPOCS).
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service for young people aged 13 to 17 who require assessment and treatment for a range of multifaceted mental health difficulties. The service it provides for the institution are crisis care, home base treatment, early intervention, community mental health team, medication and occupational therapist in group. The similarities in of the treatment are the same in the Florida mental health
Impacting the lives of children must be approached from a team perspective to address all aspects of the child’s environment and relationships including caregivers, peers, teachers and school. Behavioral Counselors must collaborate with school counselors to understand the impact that school and teachers have on the child’s life. To appreciate School Counseling a review of the specialization’s history is important. School Counselors have evolved from vocational guidance and job-orientated counseling following World War I to educational guidance following World War II due to the passing of the GI bill as veterans were given right to education counseling (Minkoff, 1985). Today School Counselors support a wide variety of needs from a wide variety of student populations including but not limited to depression, college guidance, anxiety, oppositional disorder and developmentally delayed due to change in access to mental health care being more privatized (Lockhart & Keys, 1998). Lockhart states that because of the restructuring in access to care school counselors have been pushed to handle a wider variety of needs within mental health (1998).
The school has to collect data to track daily operations of the school. The operations of the school include any and all aspects of the school. Therefore, the operations of the school is the spine of the school and is critical in supporting educators. The school has a good handle on taking data on student achievement and determining which programs are working and which are not. Along with this information, it is important to take data on the operations of the school. Knowing the achievement of the student does not necessarily assist in finding out the needs and improvement needed for the operations of the school. Evaluating the school has become a necessity with all the new federal guidelines for schools. Thus, evaluation of the school cannot be based on the scores on reading and math. It takes the whole staff to determine how the school is doing and determine the tools needed for teachers to be successful. Hence, the school takes data on the operation of the school and diagnoses problems or show improvement where needed. Therefore, the school takes data on the daily operations of the school including custodian housekeeping by monitoring the daily cleaning. Accordingly, the custodian has duties including vacuuming, sweeping, mopping cleaning bathrooms, and emptying trash. The data is taken on the assignments being completed daily and how much cleaning supplies is used and is needed. This cost affects the present budget as well as the future budget.