Prevention/Intervention Paper (15%) – 5 page paper
Evaluate an existing prevention or intervention program related to family violence.It will need to include all of the following components:-Description of type of program (primary, secondary, tertiary)-Name the Goals/Objectives-Name the targeted audience-List the Program activities-Identify the Theory of Change-Research-based findings related to program outcome (citations and references)-Cost-effectiveness-Strengths and Weaknesses-Long-term and short term outcomesThe program I chose: http://www.fviplafayette.com/The clients in the 26-week educational program are provided with a curriculum and practicaltools they can use to modify the values and beliefs individuals use to justify their violent andabusive behavior. Once they learn to accept responsibility for their behavior and the effects it hason their personal relationships, then trust, respect, and love have a chance to grow in therelationship.
Theory of change: Half of the clients will learn to accept responsibility for their behavior andrebuild their relationships with the family without any reported instances of violence after the26-week educational program.Professor’s Feedback on my theory of change: Measuring instances of violence is really trickybecause a person can be threatening even with a bad mood if there is a history of violence there.Also accepting responsibility is hard to measure too. What you can measure is participantknowledge or stress. There are parenting scales too if you are talking about parent-childinteractions.For example, After X amount of time participating in the program, Y will be reduced/increase byZ% as measured by Q
