Throughout this course, you have learned about the different types of community programs. Many of the programs you have discussed started with an initial needs assessment. A needs assessment helps programs identify the problems faced by a community and then guides in the development of programming and interventions. As a human services professional, it is important to understand the importance of accurately assessing a client’s needs and then determining which interventions are critical to long-term success.

For this Assignment, please respond to the following:

• Identify two unmet needs or problems faced by families.
  • Provide a brief summary of each need or problem (e.g., demographic information, frequency of occurrence, and so on).
• Using the two unmet needs or problems identified above, create one long-term and two short-term goals that you could implement with a family to assist with meeting their needs or solving their problems.
  • Briefly discuss the specific changes you expect by implementing these goals.
• Based on your responses to the questions above, identify two interventions that could be implemented to assist a family with meeting their goals.
  • Briefly discuss why you selected each intervention and explain how it can lead to long-term success of a family.

Assignment Guidelines

Your Assignment should be a 3- to 4-page expository essay (not including the title and reference pages) and should include the following elements:

• Title page: Provide your name, title of Assignment, course and section number, and date
• Body: Answer all the questions in complete sentences and paragraphs.
  • Your responses should reflect professional writing standards using proper tone and language. The writing and writing style should be correct, accurate, and reflect knowledge of developing and delivering family services.

Select any four of the six questions of your choice. Each question should be at a minimum of two pages with all parts answered. No title page necessary, you can use any sources to develop your answers and you do not need to cite the sources. This first research set the foundation, parameters expectations for all other critical thinking assignments. Once completed submit as up load into canvas. Grader will be posted to the grade book. This first essay exam counts for twenty percent of your overall grade.

1. Define the origins of Renaissance. Why did the Italian Renaissance produce such a strong spirit of Humanism? Discuss the major contribution Leonard da Vinci? How was the Northern Renaissance in Northern Europe different from the Italian Renaissance?
2. Discuss the importance of the Maritime Exploration prior to 1450 and after 1450. Who opened up the Window of Exploration and what technological innovations did the Europeans employ?

3.Discuss the origins of the Protestant Reformation? Martin Luther and John Calvin were contemporaries of one another, but different from a religious theology, how?

4.Why was Oliver Cromwell important? Discuss the significance of the English Civil War and Glorious Revolution and the Bill of Rights.

5. Why caused the Thirty Years’ War and why did it become the first modern war and the treaty of the Peace of West Westphalia was the first modern peace?

6. Why is Machiavelli usually considered the “father of modern political thought “? Why was Machiavelli more interested in “what is “rather than “what ought to be”? According to Machiavelli what was wrong with Italy of his own day?

Assignment: Comprehensive Assessment

A comprehensive understanding of a client’s presenting problems depends on the use of multiple types ofassessment models. Each model gathers different information based on theoretical perspective and intent. An assessment that focuses on one area alone not only misses vital information that may be helpful in planning an intervention, but may encourage a biased evaluation that could potentially lead you to an inappropriate intervention. When gathering and reviewing a client’s history, sometimes it is easier to focus on the problems and not the positive attributes of the client. In social work, the use of a strengths perspective requires that a client’s strengths, assets, and resources must be identified and utilized. Further, using an empowerment approach in conjunction with a strengths perspective guides the practitioner to work with the client to identify shared goals. You will be asked to consider these approaches and critically analyze the multidisciplinary team’s response to the program case study of Paula Cortez.

For this Assignment, review the program case study of the Cortez family.

By Day 7

In a 2- to 4-page paper, complete a comprehensive assessment of Paula Cortez, utilizing two of the assessment models provided in Chapter 5 of the course text.

• Using the Cowger article, identify at least two areas of strengths in Paula’s case.
• Analyze the perspectives of two members of the multidisciplinary team, particularly relative to Paula’s pregnancy.
• Explain which model the social workers appear to be using to make their assessment.
• Describe the potential for bias when choosing an assessment model and completing an evaluation.
• Suggest strategies you, as Paula’s social worker, might try to avoid these biases.

1. In no more than 4 paragraphs: Write a critical assessment of how your topic for study this term relates to your own identity” Christianity and myth???????????NOTE: Identity – The conceptual equation between two entities. Identity can be ontological or conceptual. Idea of who you are in relation purpose as a Christian / your expectation. Your ideas are not also value judgment.

1. In an essay of about 6-8 full paragraphs (6-8 sentences each):
2. Use reliable, 5 scholarly sources from UMUC’s library, when possible, to help you choose five sources you will be using in your final project.
3. Write a one-paragraph summary for each source explaining its relationship to your topic “Christianity and mythological theme”
4. Rely on the information we have covered in class meetings to focus your research.
5. Cite your sources using MLA format.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_births https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_comparative_mythology

1. Outline your contents (introduction, background, Reference’s) in relation to Christianity and myths, don’t forget to Crate a PPD workshop on Myth in the World. Your goal is that of UNESCO, which is to help the world “grow and live in a cultural environment rich in diversity and dialogue, where heritage serves as a bridge between generations and peoples and where interconnections and diversity must serve as opportunities to build peace in the minds of men and women.” As such, your presentations must be scholarly and useeffective presentation strategies as outlined in the learning resources. You should have a robust and engaging dialogue centered on your mutual discoveries of “Myth in the World.”
2. Ask questions and answer them

3. Cite your sources using MLA format.

1. What is the method of inquiry adopted for this study? What is eros? what does it do? Why does it act in such a manner? What is the “golden rule”? Who are “the philosophers”?

2. What does the lover want and why? Is it a universal desire? Do all want happiness and the same good things?

3. What is it that love truly wants? Why does love involve both conception and birth?

4. What is it, in fact, that the various types of humans pursue?

5. What is the final revelation of the mystery of love?

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6. What does the “greatest study” study? (184f) why does one study this subject? What do “the many” say the good is?What does Socrates study in place of the idea of the good? And why? (186f). What assumptions are they to accept before the inquiry begins formally? (187)

7. What is the “divided line”, explain how it is constructed and what it is supposed to relate. It begins on 509a p. 190. Review the sketch of the line on BB.

8. Describe the situation of the cave. (193f0 What is the stated purpose of the allegory? Who are these residents? Who frees them and why? Why does the prisoner ascend? What does he find outside of the cave? Why does he desire to go back into the cave? What good can he accomplish?

9. What is the task that Socrates begin at 521c? Describe the course of studies, where they start and where they end. What is the right use of “distinguishing the one, the two and the three”?