APSY2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Work

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY2240
• Professor: Julia Whitcavitch- Devoy

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Program theory: set of assumptions underlying how a program yields desired outcomes. Logic model: model presenting the relationships among the resources you have to operate your program, the activities you plan, and the changes or results you hope to achieve. Ex: program theory of transitional housing assistance at ccn. Activities: provide rental assistance to low income families. Outputs: rental assistance provided to 100 families. Impact: homeless reduced in lynn, other community benefits. Consider multiple stakeholder perspectives staff, consumers, funders, community. Using relevant standards of criteria to clearly define variables: Ex: prevent in example research question how do we define this: compare to other organizations in the area doing the same thing, compare with general homelessness rates in the community. Formative evaluation: what additional components can we add onto the. Class activity: reduce hunger and food insecurity. Stakeholders: seniors, staff of congregate facilities, staff, families inside and outside the home, home care aids, office of elder affairs.