Effective Use of Analytics Human Services

Model Building

Introduction

In data analytics, model building refers to assembling the needed data and analyzing it to address your identified problem. For this second course project assignment, you will complete one statistical analysis for your quantitative data and one content analysis for your qualitative data from the previous project assignment.

Statistical and Content Analyses

Work with your group on developing the following analyses based on the data from your previous project assignment. You can schedule a time to work together in real time, or work on the analyses individually and provide each other with feedback.

• Statistical analysis:
  • Identify the specific analysis type (such as an independent samples t test, paired sample t test, or one-way ANOVA) and explain why it is appropriate.
  • Assume that you have a sufficient sample size for your analysis (normally, you would need to conduct a power analysis to ensure this).
  • Conduct the analysis in Microsoft Excel or comparable software. Note: If you use software other than Excel, make sure the files that the program generates can be read in the courseroom (PDF, JPEG, XLS, and PNG formats should be acceptable).
  • Present the results and explain if they are statistically significant or not.
• Content analysis:
  • Explain the purpose of content analysis.
  • Identify the qualitative data that you are analyzing and present the analysis.
  • Identify at least one theme from your data, present quotes from the transcripts as examples, and explain the theme and how it helps you better understand the experiences of the teens.

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Instructions

Once you have completed your group analyses, prepare this assignment individually.

While most of this assignment should be written in paragraph format, it is appropriate to present some information (such as the results of the analyses) in tables. You should also present exploratory analyses and descriptive data (for example, a description of the group included in your analysis by race, gender, etcetera) in visual formats such as charts, graphs, and tables.

This paper should include the following sections:

• Identification of the Problem: This should just be a brief recap from the first assignment.
• Quantitative Analyses:
  • Identify the data and variable type (continuous or categorical).
  • Identify the specific type of statistical analysis.
  • Present your results.
  • Present the significance testing.
  • Discuss possible implications of these findings.
• Qualitative Analyses:
  • Identify the data.
  • Present the results of your content analysis.
    • Identify theme(s).
    • Provide illustrative quotations for the theme(s).
  • Discuss possible implications of these findings.

This assignment should be 3–5 pages long. It should be written in narrative format with tables, charts, graphs, and so forth included as well. Writing should be well organized, free of mechanical errors (in grammar and punctuation), and in correct APA format.

Examine the assignment scoring guide to be sure you have addressed all of the evaluation criteria.

In this paper, this writer, along with this writer’s project group, has identify a specific issue to focus on for our project and has plan how to use the data to examine it. We choose a problem from the scenario of the Homeless Teen Program run by the Riverbend City Community Action Center (CAC) and imply the identify problem to the linear regression model. We have decided to focus on the question/problem #6: “Is there a relationship between participation in individual mental health treatment and family tension?” (Riverbend City, 2020). It is important to learn more about teen mental health and family tension because mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood to old age. But mental health treatment in young adult is extremely important and it can be examined as a very sensitive subject.  Edidin et. al (2012) stated, youth homelessness is a growing concern in the United States. Despite the difficulty studying this particular population due to the inconsistent definitions of what it means to be homeless and a youth, the current body of research indicates disruptive family relationships, family breakdown, and abuse are all common contributing factors to youth homelessness.

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According to EMC Educational Services (2015) stated data analytics lifestyle is the process used for incorporating data. It is also organized process that provides arrangement to the whole process of data analytics, which starts before the actual data is analyzed and connected. The data analytics lifestyle assist individuals to ensure there is an identified reason for collecting data, which data is available, and muse about the model using the data before collecting and analyzing the data. The lifecycle has six phases, and the project work can occur in several phases at once. The six phases are discovery, data preparation, model planning, model building, communicate results, and operationalize. Phase three of the data analytics is model planning, where the team has to determine the methods, techniques, and the workflow that tends to follow the subsequent model building phase (EMC Education Services, 2015). The best model chosen imply the identify problem is the linear regression model.

The linear regression model assumes that there is an immediate relationship between the outcome and input variables. As a group, we imply that an individual’s homelessness is can be expressed by two variables, which are family tension and mental health. Mental health and family tension is the input variables while homelessness is the outcome variable. We are focusing on the possible issue between family tension and mental health treatment, and analyze the data provided from the Homeless Teen Program scenario. This model is appropriate for this specific problem due to it is trying to tie in what is the possibility causing homelessness and if the need for family tension and mental health services can be worked on to change the outcome of homelessness specially teens.

The identification of data needed is both quantitative and qualitative data. Both data are used for research and statistical analysis. Although, they have different approaches, they can both be used for the same thing. In order to collect the appropriate information for quantitative data, I will use possible data from the needs in the community. How many community members are currently receiving mental health services, family services, and how many community members are on a community service waiting list for those services. By collecting data this way it can determine the demand of services community members are currently lacking. On the other hand, to collect data using the qualitative data, I can pass out  surveys the program participants to gather data on their opinions on whether they had family issues linked into their mental health services what they believed their outcome were.

In the Homeless Teen Program scenario, a case manager name Heather stated, they gather enough basic information but gather specific background information that digs deeper into each participant family situation. The data can provide a better understanding of what the home was like for the teenagers (Riverbend City, 2020). Heather’s method of collecting data is another way of collecting qualitative data. However, once all of the data is gathered, as a group we can determine how many participants utilizes mental health service if the reason why teens are utilizing mental health services due to family issues. Or, if  there a mental health diagnosis that is hereditary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References:

 

Edidin, J.P., Ganim, Z., Hunter, S.J. et al. The Mental and Physical Health of Homeless Youth:

 

A Literature Review. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 43, 354–375 (2012).

 

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-011-0270-1

 

EMC Education Services (Eds.). (2015). Data science and big data analytics: Discovering,

 

analyzing, visualizing and presenting data. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley.

 

Riverbend City: Data Analytics Internship Introduction (2020).

https//:medic.capella.edu/CourseMedia/HMSV5316.

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Mate Selection Reflection Paper

After reading the chapter(s) from Lamanna, Riedmann, and Stewart (2018) and Balswick and Balswick (2014) (provided in learning activities > week 3), how does the sociological view of mate selection compare to the Biblical view? Discuss both similarities and dissimilarities using both the textbook and the supplemental reading. How has this impacted your personal view of the mate selection process? Papers must be 2-3 pages (not including title and references) and in APA format.

Note: You are required to utilize both your textbook and the Balswick and Balswick (2014) reading (located as a pdf in Blackboard this week) to write your paper this week or it will be considered incomplete.

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HHS 201 Human Services

Cultural Competence in Human Services Work

[WLO: 3] [CLOs: 1, 3, 7]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the required chapters from the Woodside and McClam text, as well as the article The Culturally Competent Counselor: Issues Specific to Four Minority Groups. Then, use the following outline to discuss issues of cultural competence pertaining to the human services profession, being sure to use at least three resources (e.g., Week 3 readings, online credible or professional, or articles from the Ashford University Library) to support your thoughts:

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• Understanding cultural competence. In one page,
  • Identify what being a culturally competent professional means in the human services field, discussing three necessary characteristics you believe make one culturally competent.
• The role of the human services professional. In one page,
  • Explain how significant “multicultural human services” is in working with diverse clients and in diverse settings.
  • Explain challenges that exist in a multicultural context and resources available to support human service professionals, such as the Ethical Standards for Human Service professionals(Links to an external site.): National Organization of Human Services Adopted 2015.
• Improving your cultural competence. In one page,
  • Examine two to three strategies that you would utilize (or have used) as a human services professional to increase your own cultural competence, reflecting on some of your strengths and areas to improve.

The Cultural Competence in Human Services Work paper

• Must be three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style(Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice(Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions(Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
• Must use at least three credible sources.
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources(Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper(Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List(Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

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Organizational Change Case Study Submit Assignment

Directions

Consider this case study of Fremont, California featured in your textbook and answer the following questions:

When Jan Perkins became city manager of Fremont, California, in 1992, Fremont like many other California cities, was suffering from both economic difficulties and the state’s efforts to pull back the property tax as a source of local government revenue. Yet while city employees were being laid off and services were being reduced, citizen demand for quality public services remained high. More important in Perkins’ mind was the fact that citizens had lost confidence in their government. For both of these reasons, Perkins and other city officials in Fremont recognized that something dramatically different had to be done.

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The change process started early in Perkins’ tenure, as one of her council members proposed bringing in an outside consultant (at a cost of $500,000) to diagnose what might be done. Especially because a neighboring city had just done the same thing and failed to adopt a single recommendation, Perkins believed that greater benefits could be obtained by working with those within the city to figure out how the quality and productivity of the city might be improved. A facilitated workshop session involving top elected and appointed officials was devoted to understanding “what we do, how we do it, and why we do it.” From there, the question became, “How can we do it better and how can we become fast and flexible, customer oriented, focused on results, and engaged in important partnerships internally and externally?”

During the 5 years following the workshop, Perkins led a dramatic change in Fremont’s city government – a change built around delivering high-quality services to citizens, creating an internal culture built around continuous and employee-driven improvement, using a highly collaborative approach to decision-making and problem-solving, and building partnerships within the city and with surrounding communities.

The city’s interest in customer service was given initial priority as complaints regarding service quality were heard loud and clear. Perkins and her senior staff began to concentrate on developing a serious philosophical and practical commitment to service quality. The message to employees was that if they saw a way in which the citizens of Fremont could be better served by city government, then they should take action. In addition, the city’s capacity to innovate was aided by a much more collaborative approach to decision-making and problem-solving which cut across traditional organizational boundaries. Whatever their positions, employees were encouraged to think of themselves as representatives of the city and to do what was necessary to provide citizens with the answers they need. This attitude was also supported by a strong emphasis on partnerships and collaborations at many different levels in the organization. Early in the process of labor negotiation, Perkins created joint labor-management committees to consider “quality of work life” issues through a structured problem-solving process known as interest-based bargaining. This collaborative process encourages participants to identify their basic interests (before jumping to solutions) and then to engage in collaborative problem-solving to find a way of accommodating the varied interests represented. Interest-based bargaining was so highly successful in labor-management relations that the same approach has been encouraged throughout city government. Training in the process has been offered to all employees of the city, and interest-based bargaining has become a standard way of doing business in Fremont.

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The same approach to building partnerships through collaborative efforts is used as the city relates to citizens and to other nearby governmental entities. City employees do not just inform citizens about what is going to be done to them. They also go out and ask citizens what they want and then balance those interests with those of the city. Beyond that, city employees and citizens engage in interest-based problem-solving even around issues of how to design a process to involve the public. The city engineer commented, “We do more than tell them what we are going to do. We go out now and involve them in the design of the process itself. The process is laid out by the people involved.”

1. What apprehensions or resistance to change do you find present in this case example? Provide specific examples from the textbook and case study.
2. Of the approaches to bringing about change discussed in our assigned textbook reading, analyze the leadership strategies and techniques that Perkins employed in bringing about successful organizational change. Provide specific examples from the textbook and case study.
3. Reflecting on the differences between not for profit and for profit organizations, do you think that Perkins would have been as successful in creating a highly collaborative, employee-driven change if the organization was a private, for profit entity? Why or why not?
4. Complete the attached self-quiz for your own records and reflection, Orientation Toward Change Self-Quiz. What did you discover about your own orientation to change? How will you use what you have learned about yourself to effectively lead others toward change?

Format

Students should use the following format for their written assignment.

• Your paper must include three to four pages of written content.
• Use APA format and cite sources, as necessary.
• In addition to the 2 to 3 pages of written content, please include:
  1. Title Page
  2. Appropriate Headings and Sub-Headings
  3. Reference Page (minimum of 2 scholarly references)
• Use a minimum of 2 scholarly references—scholarly references can include peer-reviewed articles, textbook, journals, and included supplemental resources.

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Human Service Professional Practitioner/ The Dangers of Nonempathic Response

To Prepare

• Using the Walden Library or internet sources, research a current or historical example where leaders or decision makers did not demonstrate sufficient empathy or empathic skills related to trauma, culture, and confrontation.

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By Day 7

Write a 2-page paper analyzing a current or historical example where leaders or decision makers did not demonstrate sufficient empathy or empathic skills related to trauma, culture, and confrontation. Be sure to do the following:

• Describe the event.
• Provide specific examples that illustrate the absence of empathy-related skills.
• Explain what leaders or decision makers could have done differently. Justify your response.
• Explain the potential consequences of a human services professional practitioner displaying a similar lack of empathy. How might that impact the service user they are working with as well as the larger society?
• Use the Learning Resources to support your analysis.

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