Description
Depression is the topic Problem Identification: Research and identify resources for a specific developmental, behavioral, or diagnostic need for children or adolescents in your community (4 -5 pages): Prevalence: Determine a necessary program or service by examining the current needs of your community’s children or adolescents, using the standards established by the American Psychiatric Association. What issue have you chosen to address? Who is affected? What data will you use to point to the prevalence of this issue? Begin your paper with a clear and concise identification of the problem as it exists within your community. Support the problem identification with published data, links, or citations.What is the necessary service or program? How will it address the needs you have examined? Assessment of Resources: Evaluate available and needed resources in your community. Evaluate the resources available for providing a program or service like the one you identified. This is an essential part of justifying a grant request. You must clearly articulate the limitations of current services and describe the service gap your proposal would fill. Support your assessment of resources with published data, links, or citations.Determine necessary but unavailable resources and explain their importance in providing the identified program or service. Impact of Problem: Describe the impact of the problem on individuals, families, and the community. Construct an impact statement based on the prevalence of the identified issue and the lack of community resources. This section is where you will justify the urgency or need for your proposal by describing the potential impacts of not addressing the problem proactively. Articulate how the lack of the identified program or service impacts the community.How is the lack of available resources exacerbating the issue?
