Essay On Program Planning

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Program Planning and Evaluation Paper
From what I have read so far, I believe that program planning is the starting structure of a new program or starting blue prints or maybe even used to improve a program that is already in place. When dealing with program planning it involves making goals, research, setting up objectives in order to be sure to make goals and gathering some information. Information about the budget is also included in program planning, such as how much it will cost in order to provide the services that are intended by the program. Program planning helps in many ways, it basically tells us what the problem is, who is the problem’s targeted population, where is the demographic location of the targeted population, and also why is there a problem. A lot of thought and information is involved with program planning, collected by the staff and also the clients where available. The obstacles that the program may encounter along the way and the plans that will help to work around those obstacles is determined through program planning. Program planning should always be done thoroughly and carefully because as a blue print for a program we would all really like for the finishing product to be very well built, put together and organized with a great finished product. Basically program planning is a process that is in place to achieve a particular goal and/or mission. It will help to expedite change in an identified human service problem. Now, the ongoing collection of data in which the staff of the program can take into consideration when they are making some changes that are necessary improvements or future planning of the program is program evaluation. Program evaluations are what show the staff the strong points of the p...

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...any politicians that are in charge, supporting programs that wish to stop domestic violence, then more problems could arise. This could cause the people that are in charge of program evaluations to feel as if they have to lie about a program’s effectiveness to remain on the good side of a certain politician that may be the only one that is supporting the program. Also I believe that another political aspect of it would be going to congress and fighting for laws against domestic violence, making the abuser have to take full responsibility for their actions. The issue that could affect planning of the domestic violence program is there housing or a safe house for the victims that are trying to get out or away from an abuser, such as a victim protection plan. The question that would be asked next is will the victim stay in the program or go back to the abuser.

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