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Review your list of local city and state agencies (or the two agencies you compared) and select a target population. Examples of target populations are the poor, unemployed, children, elderly, people with disabilities, persons with mental illness, substance abusers, criminals, homeless, and persons living with HIV/AIDS. Once you have selected a group, research a current issue or problem affecting this target population.

Identify the current and unmet needs of your chosen target population, and describe the possible obstacles that are preventing resolution of the problems. What human service programs addressing the problem currently exist, and how are they helping or hindering the problem?

Locate two credible sources from the University Library or the Internet that discuss the problems this target population faces and incorporate your findings into your paper.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in APA format, with references, summarizing your findings.

Submit your paper as a Microsoft® Word attachment. 

What are the features of No Child Left Behind that significantly affect students with LD?

Students very understandably confuse NCLB, IDEA, the ADA, and other ‘laws’ that have been enacted regarding education. Please make sure you are referring to what you understand, checking your understanding with non-judgmental/non-political sources, and really think about the fundamental basis for IDEA – what does it look to protect?

Minimum of 150 words with in-text citation(s) and reference(s).

Shortly after NCLB’s implementation, IDEA, which was enacted 13 years prior, was reauthorized (2004) to try and align more with NCLB as NCLB had direct contradictions to IDEA. Try and locate these differences as it may help you answer this prompt.

Evaluate instructional strategies and curriculum designs for students with learning disabilities. Which strategies are most useful in your classroom with the age group you teach? What elements of curriculum development and program design will help students with LD succeed?

Minimum of 150 words with in-text citation(s) and reference(s).

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In a separate document:

Interview a teacher of students with LD. Discuss skills necessary in organizing and planning strategies for effective classroom management, including:

Grouping

Scheduling

Lesson plans

Homework strategies

Record keeping

Selecting instructional materials

Observe the teacher’s classroom management. Discuss your observations with the teacher. In an essay of 1,500-1,750- words, summarize your learning experience and key insights gained in this visit. Be prepared to discuss your interview in class.

In a separate document:

Begin creating a reading lesson using GCU Student Class Profile provided.

For this week you are only expected to complete the standards, differentiation, objective, and assessment portions of this lesson.

Be sure to:

Use the standards from your state (common core is the default setting).

Explicitly address how to differentiate instruction for students needing extra assistance.

Address different learning styles (auditory, kinesthetic, and visual).

Make objectives observable and measurable.

Reflect upon the assessment: how will you assess students?  Why?

The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age

List and describe at least three (3) technologies that allow an individual to research citizens’ private data.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of public access to this information, both for the ‘researchers’ and those who are being “investigated”.
Determine what measures citizens can take to protect private information or information they do not want to be disclosed.
Discuss a federal law that grants the federal government the legal right to make private information on U.S. citizens available to the public, and whether or not you agree with this law.
Determine whether there are “electronic privacy laws” that can prevent others from having access to “private information” as well as how effective they are

Individual Assignment: Website Review and Summary There are many valuable web resources for researching public and community health issues or diseases. Researching some national, state, and local government health agency websites will help you become familiar with accessible information. This will help you conduct research for future assignments. •         Resource: Website Review and Summary Grading Criteria on the student website.•         Resource: Website Review Table on the student website.•         Find national, state, and local governmental health agency websites that address the issue from the Article Review assignment.•         Document your findings based on the University of Phoenix Material: Website Review.•         Write a 700- to 1,050-word summary of your findings that includes the following: o    How does the information overlap? o    What type of structure do you see between levels of government?o    What functions do you see at each level of government? o    How do the levels of government work together?o    How would you define public and community health? •         Include at least three references.•         Format your summary consistent with APA guidelines.

Final Project: Analyzing Financial Statements

Resource: Appendix A

Review the financial statements in Appendix D.

Calculate the following: Current ratio, long-term solvency ratio, contribution ratio, programs and expense ratio, general and management and expense ratio, fund-raising and expense ratio, and revenue and expense ratio for the years 2003 and 2004.

Include the current ratio, long-term solvency ratio, contribution ratio, programs and expense ratio, general and management and expense ratio, fund-raising and expense ratio, and revenue and expense ratio calculated in the Week Four Assignment.

Provide a 200- to 300-word explanation of the importance of each ratio for all three years listed in Appendix D. Include a statement of whether the organization’s financial picture has improved or not within the 3-year period specified in Appendix D.

Calculate the fixed cost, variable costs, and break-even point for the XYZ Corporation for the years 2003 and 2004 listed in Appendix D.

Include the fixed cost, variable costs, and break-even point for the XYZ Corporation for the year 2002 from the Week Six CheckPoint.

Discuss the purpose, advantages, disadvantages, and type of feedback provided by a line item, performance, and program budget in a 350- to 700-word essay.

Provide a 350- to 700-word response to the following: Identify and describe two types of traditional approaches to fund development, and two types of nontraditional approaches to fund development that are appropriate for the XYZ Corporation, and provide a conclusion of the organization’s current and future financial picture.

Format all written portions according to APA guidelines.

Compile all elements, including portions previously completed, and submit them as attachments to the same post.

Write a 1,050- to 1,200-word paper on personal ethics development that examines your personal ethical system and ground rules, including its origins and development.

    Incorporate the terms found in the University of

Phoenix Material: Key Terms located on the student

Web site.

Focus on the developmental aspect of your ethics

rather than on a particular position on any issue.

Define your underlying ethical system, its primary

principles, the sources that helped shape your

ethics—such as people, institutions, events, and so

forth—and the criteria and decision-making factors

you used to revise them.

Discuss the potential effect of your ethics on your

performance or use of them in your workplace using

a specific personal example.

Explain why ethics are needed in an organization

and how ethics are integrated into the organization

to achieve its direction and goals. What effect does

the application of these ethics have on individuals,

organizations, and society?

SubmitFormat your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

your paper to the Plagiarism Checker. Submit it

for review and provide a copy of the report to your

facilitator with your assignment.

For your Research Paper, you will choose one of the health care organizations listed below and conduct an analysis of their strategic planning and evaluation of the organization in an eight- to- ten (excluding title and reference page) paper.

You should utilize any and all information available about the organization. Examples of valid sources can include, but are not limited to, organizational websites, annual reports, personal interviews with organizational leadership, investigative reports, government reports, and conference transcripts. Your Research Paper must include a minimum of five of the key areas, concepts, and strategies outlined throughout the text. These include, but are not limited to:

a. Internal and external assessments

b. Competitive marketing analysis

c. Identification of stakeholders

d. Overview and assessments of services provided

e. Competencies and resource

f. Public entities and regulatory requirements

g. Demographics served

h. Strategic financial planning

i. Financial and operational outcomes

j. Current and future direction of the organization of choice, etc.

Health care organizations of choice are:

• Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)
• Tenet Health System
• Mayo Clinic
• Henry Ford Health System
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• Children’s Miracle Network
• Deborah Heart and Lung Center
• Medtronic
• Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Planned Parenthood
• Indian Health Service (IHS)
• Health Markets

Imagine you are working in an early childhood setting that cares for and teaches children ages 0–5. Two families in your program share a grandmother who has been an active and loving caregiver for their children—an infant, a toddler, and a preschooler. The grandmother has recently passed away and you want to support these families by helping them understand how infants, toddlers, and preschoolers grieve in order to help the children with this loss.

Before you create your Action Plan, consider:

• What does an early childhood professional need to know in order to understand the situation and needs of these children and families?
• What ideas and advice from experts may be useful in assisting children and families?
• What can early childhood professionals do to help, either directly, by suggesting activities and advice, or by referring the family to other community resources and professionals?

As you prepare this Action Plan, keep the focus on gathering and identifying the knowledge and ideas that you can best share with parents and other key adults. Remember that working directly with children as a grief counselor is an area of expertise that you may choose to pursue. However, as an early childhood professional, you are most qualified to help young children in this area by supporting the significant adults in their lives and remaining consistent, sensitive, and caring.

Follow these steps to create your Action Plan:

1. What You Need to Know: Learning About How Children at Different Ages Respond to Death

Naturally, children respond to situations in their own ways often based on where they are developmentally; sometimes based on temperament. Keep this uniqueness in mind as you read the following articles on children and grief. Although there is some overlap, you will find that all three help to clarify how young children of different ages respond to death. As you read, take notes on important developmental information and ideas that you think are important to share with parents/family members:

• Young Children and Grief (PDF)
  
• Magical Thinking: Children May Blame Themselves for a Parent’s Illness and Death (PDF)
  

2. Ideas and Advice: Checking Resources

Think concretely about how best to help the parents/family members of an infant, a toddler, and a preschooler. Check your notes from reading the articles above. As needed, skim the articles again for key concepts about how young children perceive death and specific ways to support each age to share with parents/family members. Access these articles below as additional resources:

• Infant and Toddler Grief (PDF)
  

3. Taking Action: Supporting the Whole Family in Responding to Loss

With knowledge and ideas in hand, you’re ready to suggest ways to support young children in dealing with a family loss. Use the information and advice from the articles to make your plan. Think of it as preparing a script for meeting with the parents or other significant family adults. Include the following in your plan:

Part I: Supporting an Infant

Explain in your own words:

• Developmental information about what an infant may feel or understand about a family death
• Possible ways that an infant may respond to a family death
• Specific advice from experts on how to help an infant through a family loss

Part II: Supporting a Toddler

Explain in your own words:

• Developmental information about what a toddler may feel, believe, or understand about a family death
• Possible ways that a toddler may respond to a family death
• Specific advice from experts on how to help a toddler through a family loss

Part III: Supporting a Preschooler

Explain in your own words:

• Developmental information about what a preschooler may feel, believe, or understand about a family death
• Possible ways that a preschooler may respond to a family death
• Three specific ideas or activities the family can do at home to help a preschooler through a family loss

As you write your plan, remember the following:

• Your goal is to help parents/family members understand how infants, toddlers, and preschoolers may respond to the family loss.
• Parents/family members are most likely grieving, too. Consider their feelings in explaining their children’s needs.
• Choose language that you would feel comfortable using—language that is respectful and sensitive—to create a model presentation for talking with adult family members.

Assignment length: 2–3 pages

How do policymakers evaluate which health care services should be financed through government programs?
Discussion: Financing of Health Care
With coinciding concerns about health care costs and the imperative to improve quality of care, health care providers and others face difficult decisions in the effort to achieve an appropriate balance.

Such decisions often are addressed in the policy arena. How do policymakers evaluate which health care services should be financed through government programs? How do ethics-related questions and other considerations play into this evaluation process? Is it possible to contain costs and provide accessible, high-quality care to all, or is the tension between cost and care inherent in the U.S. health care delivery system? These questions are central to health care financing decisions in the United States.

For this Discussion, you will focus on the policy decision-making process that determines what types of care are covered by public and private insurers and the ethical aspects of such financial decisions.

To prepare:

Read the following case study, “Hard Economic and Finance Choices in US Healthcare” (Milstead):
Case Study 1: Hard Economic and Finance Choices in US Healthcare
Applied economics is all about managing scarce resources. Economics is an amoral field of study: it is neither moral nor immoral. Morality and values are determined by individuals at the personal level and by group consensus or majority opinion at the national level. State and federal governments determine the ‘will of the people’ about how to use scarce resources for the good of a nation.

The U.S. health care system is an exemplar of scarcity: primary care physicians, substance abuse treatment centers, trauma centers, registered nurses, and the money to pay for goods and services. Finance is all about how to pay for goods and services. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is appointed by the Executive branch of the federal government to make decisions about what the Medicare program will and will not pay for. In this role, MedPAC makes decisions about medications, procedures and treatments. Examples of MedPAC decisions include coverage for left ventricular assistive devices as a destination therapy, coverage for bariatric surgery, and in 2010, coverage of the drug Provenge. By law, MedPAC is not allowed to use price or cost of any treatment in its decision-making processes.

Review the information in the Washington Post article “Review of Prostate Cancer Drugs Provenge Renews Medical Cost-Benefit Debate” in the Learning Resources.
Consider how policy decisions currently are made about what will and will not be paid for and what changes, if any, could improve the process.
Reflect on how the Washington Post example illustrates the tension between cost and care.
By Day 3
Post your analysis and assessment of the ethical and economic challenges related to policy decisions such as those presented in the Washington Post article. How does this type of situation contribute to the tension between cost and care? Substantiate your response with at least two outside resources.

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