SWK 115 Community Resources Spring 2006

Course No Course Title CL LB CLINIC CR
SWK 115 Community Resources 2 2 0 3
This course introduces community resources essential to social work practice. Emphasis is placed on awareness of and interaction with community service personnel. Upon completion, students should be able to identify resources and assess critical community needs. This course is a unique concentration requirement of the Social Service concentration in the Human Services Technology program. Prerequisites: SWK 110.

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SWK 115 Spring 2006 Syllabus

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 Class Activities Homework (in addition to BB assignments
  1. Monday, January 9, 2005
 1.  With a partner, answer question: You have been given a grant of $200,000 to improve human services in Person County.  Describe, in detail, what you would do with the money.  2. Discussion of syllabus and class projects. 3.  Discussion of meaning of conflict (ex. 2 p. 28).  4. Cat/dog debate (ex. 5 & 6 p. 29) 1. Read chapter one in Conflict resolution for the helping professions and the Grant Writing Help Book and then complete exercises 3,4,and 7, pages 28-29,  in Conflict resolution for the helping professions (Due in class on January 23, 2006). 2. Take quiz on the Grant Writing Help Book.
  1. Monday, January 23, 2005
 1.  Campus Scavenger Hunt.  2.  Discuss new grant information.  3.  Worksheet on proposal idea.

Lesson:  Look close to home for resources.

 1. Read chapter two in Conflict resolution for the helping professions and then complete exercises 1,2,3 and 4, pages 53-55.  2.  Review the Grant Writing Packet from Dr. Paula Butler. 3.  Review the Common Grant Application from the National Network of Grantmakers.   Complete the Worksheet on proposal idea.
  1. Monday, January 30, 2005
 1. Discussion of grant writing and group process.  2. Small group work.  3. Did exercise 10, page 30. 1.  Decide on a solution and start to justify choice.  2.  Complete work plan as a group.  3.  In Conflict resolution for the helping professions complete exercises 5,7,9 and Communication Skills Inventory, pages 55 to 58.
  1. Monday, February 6, 2005
 1. Role play 1.1, pages 32-33.  2) Page 55, exercise 6.  3) Grant writing process discussion. 1.  Complete the rough draft of the common grant application narrative as a group. 2. Read chapter three in Conflict resolution for the helping professions. 3.  In Conflict resolution for the helping professions, complete exercise 1, page 101 and exercise 3, page 102.

 
  1. Monday, February 13, 2005
 1.  Reviewed "I" statements.  2. Discussed narratives.  3.  Exercise 10, page 57.  4) Role play 2.1, page 58. 1.  Complete the rough draft of the common grant application narrative as a group. 2. Read chapter three in Conflict resolution for the helping professions (due Friday). 2.  In Conflict resolution for the helping professions, complete exercise 4,5,6,7 and 8, pages 102-103.
  1. Monday, February 20, 2005
 No one came due to poor weather! :-(

 

1) By Friday at 5:00 p.m., submit a rough draft of the evaluation section of the common grant application, as exemplified below:

Evaluation: Briefly describe your plan for evaluating the success of the project or for your organization’s work. What questions will be addressed? Who will be involved in evaluating this work—staff, board, constituents, community, consultants? How will the evaluation results be used?

4)  From Conflict resolution, pages 103-104, exercises 9, 10, 13, 14, 15 due in week eight class.
 
  1. Monday, February 27, 2005
 Discussion of grant process so far and review of submitted materials. For this week: 1 )You will read chapter eight in Successful community leadership and answer a discussion board questions by Wednesday at 8:00 p.m.  2 )You will respond to the other student’s posts by Sunday at 8:00 p.m. 3) By Monday morning (class), submit a rough budget.
  1. Monday, March 6, 2005
 Budget discussion. In Conflict resolution,  ex. 18 and 19, page 106. 
  1. Monday, March 13, 2005
 Chapter three exercises (role play 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 (do as a group) (pages 106-108)and grant discussion. 1) Submit redone narrative, evaluation, and budget 2) Read the first half of chapter four (p. 116 to 149) in Conflict resolution.  3) Page 169, ex. 1, 2, Page 170, ex. 3.

 
  1. Monday, March 20, 2005
 Discussion of redone grant sections. Hats exercise from Successful Community Leadership. 1) Read the second half of chapter four (p. 149 to 183) in Conflict resolution.  2) Submit attachment and auxiliary sections of grant application 3) Submit your portfolio to Kathy Oakley (via Lesley Williams) 4) Page 170, ex. 5.  Page 171, ex. 6.  Page 171 ex. 7.
  1. Monday, March 27, 2005
 Role plays 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and review of grant process thus far.

1) Submit any remaining sections of the common grant application, for review.  2) Page 171, ex. 8, ex. 9, p. 172, ex. 11, ex. 12.
  1. Monday, April 3, 2005
 Exercise 16 (page 172-173) and discussion. Role play exercises 4.5, 4.6, assignment 4B (page 181) and grant discussion. 1) Read chapter six.  2) Homework from chapter four:  Page 172, ex. 13, Page 173 ex. 17.  3)Homework from chapter six:  Page 239, ex. 2, ex. 3.
  1. Monday, April 10, 2005
 Discuss grant progress.  Page 239, discuss question 7, do activity on question 8 (page 240), and do activity in question 9 (page 240) as a group or individually.  1) Submit rough draft of grant for review. 2) Page 239, ex. 4, ex. 6, Page 240, ex. 10.
  1. Monday, April 24, 2005
 Class will meet in LRC.  Review grant rough draft and complete library assignment. Work on your final grant proposal.

 
  1. Monday, May 1, 2005
 Discussion of grant presentation.  1) At the beginning of class, submit four copies of your grant proposal, each in a notebook. 2) Submit your portfolio.   Review grant process.
  1. Monday, May 8, 2005
 Grant Proposal Presentation - PowerPoint (and videotaped)