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Paper #3 Instructions
Paper #3: Community Intervention
As the Director of Human Services in your community, you have been appointed Chair of a committee that must
propose a well-rounded set of community prevention services. The other members of the committee are leaders
of various social service agencies and community representatives. Choose a set of programs that you can justify
to the rest of the committee and to members of the community. However, you must include at least one program
for each area (pre-kindergarten education, child welfare / home visitation, youth development, mentoring, youth
substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and juvenile offender programs). You should also include programs that serve
youth from early childhood through adolescence.
Assignment
First, find the Aos et al. (2004) article on the course reserves. Using the information on pages 6-7 of that article,
choose a combination of programs that address the full range of community needs while staying within your
budget. Use the costs and benefits information and program descriptions contained in the Aos et al. (2004)
article. Use the spreadsheet provided to keep track of your choices and how much money is being spent. Identify
where on the intervention spectrum each program falls (universal, selected, indicated), as well as the number of
people that will be served by each program, and the total costs and benefits of each program. When you enter
the number of people who will get a program, as well as the cost per person and benefits per person, then the
total will be calculated automatically for you).
Second, justify your prevention strategy and proposed programs in a brief report that you must submit to the City
Council. For the report, download this document
(https://psu.instructure.com/courses/2043297/files/108888888/download?wrap=1)
(https://psu.instructure.com/courses/2043297/files/108888888/download?wrap=1) and type your answers right onto
the document itself. Based on your report, the Council will decide whether or not to fund your efforts. For this
report, you should strive to convince the Council:
1. How the community will benefit from this investment
2. How the needs of all community members are being met (poor & affluent; low-risk & high-risk; various ethnic
groups)
3. Why you are spending more money on some programs than on others
4. Why some programs are being offered to only some members of the community and how you would select
those individuals
5. Why you chose more than one program for some problem areas and why you omitted some well-known or
popular programs.
In your justification, you should draw upon any ideas or material from the semester to make the best case
possible for your proposal.
Format
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Fill in the Paper 3 guideline document (https://psu.instructure.com/courses/2043297/files/108888888/download?
wrap=1) (https://psu.instructure.com/courses/2043297/files/108888888/download?wrap=1) – please use 12pt
font. You will also submit your completed spreadsheet showing the names and types (universal, selected,
indicated) of programs you selected, number of people served and total costs and benefits.
References
On a separate page at the end of your paper, please include a References page. It should include any sources
that you cite in your paper.
Community Details for Paper #3
Budget: $4, 500, 000
City demographics:
Population: 110,000
1500 children of each age (e.g., 1500 youth who are 3 years old; 1500 youth who are 7 years old)
20% Poverty rate (i.e., 300 children in each grade are below the poverty line)
125 infants born to poor, young, first-time moms each year
100 children (from 80 families) in Foster Care
200 youth per grade from ages 12-18 with a history of juvenile delinquency (i.e., a total of 1400 adolescent
youth in your community with a history of juvenile delinquency)
900 youth in the community experiment with cigarettes and/or alcohol each year
50% White; 30% African-American; 10% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 3% Native American
READ THIS BEFORE STARTING: Helpful suggestions for Paper #3
The purpose of this paper is to create an overall prevention/ intervention program for your community. Unlike
the previous two papers, you won’t be focusing on just one intervention program; you will choose many
intervention programs that will work together to address all the needs of your community (details about the
community are listed in the paper assignment). You can choose programs from the list in the Aos et al.
article on the course reserves website. The article breaks down the programs by category and also
provides all the budget information that you need, so be sure to read the article first – it is a great source of
information.
When you’re filling out the budget worksheet, make sure that you indicate whether the program is universal,
selected, or indicated. But be careful with this – even if a program is designed to be universal, but you’re only
offering it to 500 students, then it’s not a universal program anymore. The only thing that makes it universal
is if everyone (or everyone in a certain age group) gets to participate. If you’re only offering it to a select
group, then it’s either selected or indicated and you’ll need to explain that in the paper itself (and include how
you chose who gets the program and who doesn’t).
Also for the budget sheet: you don’t need to have a program for every single category. For example, you’re
using NFP in the “Home Visitation” section, so you could potentially make the argument that you don’t need a
different substance abuse program down the line because NFP, even though it’s implemented early, deters
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kids from using substances. So you’re welcome to skip some of those categories so that you have more
money for other programs, just as long as you justify it in your paper. If you can get a program in for every
single category, that’s great. But if you think that there might be some “carry over” from a program designed
for one category in such a way that it will also impact another category, just point that out in your paper. It’s
up to you how you decide to address all those different areas.
Remember, just because a program sounds good when you read the description does not mean that it works or that it is
cost-effective. A program with benefit = $0 has no effect. A program with a benefit that is smaller than the cost will be
very hard to support.
There are 150 youth per year between the ages of 12 and 18 (i.e., 1050 youth total) who engage in
delinquency or juvenile offending. Services for these youth are expensive and it may be hard to serve all of
them. If you cannot serve everyone, explain why you can’t serve everyone and explain how you will
choose the individuals who will be in your program.
There are 300 low-income youth at every age, so that means that there are 300 3-year olds and 300 4-year
olds in the community.
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