Instructions
TWO community resource visits.
Interview & Visit: Early in the course, find two places in the community to visit that will work for your schedule! If you do not interview someone for any reason, you may still complete and submit this project. Earning an “A” grade will require a visit and interview.
Link to Sign-Up sheet for your resource so students are not contacting the same people.
Description of Assignment:
Identify and visit 2 resources in your community that support children ages birth to five and their families.
Interview a leader, manager, or licensed professional of the organization. Identify and describe everything listed in the grading criteria. (Create your own interview questions based on what the assignment requires.) Make sure you interview a person who works with programming or services related to Birth-5 children.
Interview Questions: Write your own questions, but here’s a tip. You only need the information in the grading criteria, so make those items into your questions.
If visiting a large organization with multiple programs, like Catholic Charities, choose just one program within that organization to focus on. Do not take up more than 20 minutes of their time.
Obtain flyers, brochures, pamphlets, etc. from each resource organization. Study their website. Call or email to set up an interview.
You may choose the method to display your information (Slides, written, video (less than 5 minutes total), charts.). The information should be well organized, look professional, and submitted via D2L in one of the accepted file formats.
Services offered
- At least 4 ideas about their services are listed and clearly described
- Cost/Funding: What do families pay or how is the program funded if families don’t pay?
- Qualify: How does a family qualify for services or “get in” to the program?
- Referral: If you wanted to refer a family to this service or program, how would you do that or what process would you follow?
- Must be specifically for families of children aged Birth-Five
Mission, successes, and challenges of the work
- Identify and describe these according to the person interviewed
- mission stated
- at least 3 successes and 3 challenges stated and clearly described
Information, Links, and contact information
- Name, Title & Contact information for the person interviewed
- The date you visited the community resource
- Link to the website
- Any other information you obtained and would like to include
