The grant is a respite care of
military families having children with special needs. This care seeks to
allow for the funder to care for such children with things such as
shopping, movies, counseling services, group therapy, classes or just a
mental break considering that their parents are away for military
missions. The military families are supposedly living in uncomfortable
conditions unlike other families whose breadwinners do other civil
services. Hence, those families having children with special needs need
to have attention to help them overcome feeling neglected. The issue
that this part seek to address is providing the needs statement and the
objectives of the grant. This portion will address who the families are
that qualify to participate, the necessary resources for this program
and how the families benefit rom this program.
Part 1: Needs Statement, Goals and Objectives
Needs Statement
Hampton Respite Relief is intended to reestablish comfort to military
families having children with special needs. Those families need to
live comfortably like other families without having a feeling of
stigmatization. Turchi and Mann (2012) argues that military families
feel isolated since their main source of income comes from undertaking
military missions and their supporters are mostly out for various
missions. Hence, there is a need to help the families restore their joy
by providing support to the children with special needs to make them
feel like others.
According to Choppala-Nestor and Riley (2013) raising children with
special needs is one test of happiness in a marriage. Military families
have strong foundation where they can work, but the members who are
depended on are always away from their children. Children with special
needs need to have indoor and outdoor fun like others. However, since
the members serve at military missions, most of those children are
isolated and they feel neglected by the parents and the society. Also,
Choppala-Nestor and Riley clarifies that children with special needs
need to have services such as education and healthcare. When a military
child has special needs, then the advocacy should grow to include
learning the legal provisions and finding extra resources to represent
that child to special program.
Family members have said a substantial child care provider is a
concern of every military member even while undertaking the mission
(Parent, 1). On the other hand, those members will uncomfortably
undertake the operations rendering the missions in jeopardy. According
to Eddy (2013), how military service members are treated determines the
success of the mission which include security matters. Hence, lack of
care providers for their children with special needs compromises their
effort to comfortably undertake the mission. Also, the military service
members feel neglected by the state if no one is concerned with taking
care of their families. Hence, they jeopardize their service provision
leading other challenges in the entire state such as insecurities.
Hollar (2012) proves that military families with children who have
special needs face a lot of challenges. Also, military families face
more challenges than other families having children with the same
special needs. For instance, such families feel isolated since due to
their distance from the extended families and other close people who
could possibly help them. Secondly, those families feel it is difficult
to navigate complex system of care and services considering the
complexity in the military. Thirdly, the military members have to start
from scratch to find service providers when they are relocated and have
to piece together the plan of care upon reaching new locations.
Also, unlike the civilians in the state, the military members have to
take much time learning that the availability of care services can vary
form one installation to another (Parent 1). According to Eddy (2013),
the military service members need to adjust to deployment since they are
not practically able to help the families in day to day activities.
Hence, their children with special needs do not have an opportunity to
have fun and other services such as shopping, movies, counseling
services, and group therapy.
The challenges noted are expected to be solved by the Exceptional
Family Member Program (EFMP) which is designed to assist the children
with special needs in military families. This funder will be expected to
collect the data and take appropriate actions to assist those families.
Also, this project is helpful in meeting the needs that are currently
missing through providing the methodology of identifying those families
and how the data will be analyzed to contain all details of the needs of
those children. The two funder I will seek for this program are Brand
USA and Respite Care Association of Wisconsin (RCAW). These two funders
provide full support towards the respite.
Goals
Goal #1 – Provide support
through provision of basic needs such as health services, therapy
session, shopping, counseling services, to families with children who
have special needs.
Objective 1 – 50 families will be served by the program and each will receive 10 hours a month of respite care for 36 months.
Evaluation Criteria 1 –Each family will take a survey to determine how beneficial the program has been for them.
Objective 2 – Provide support to spouses of deployed service members while the active duty service member is away on active duty.
Evaluation Criteria 2 – Each spouse will complete a survey to
determine how will the program worked and if there where any suggestions
on making the program more efficient.
Objective 3 – To improve the quality of life of family member with children with special needs.
Evaluation Criteria 2 – Parents will complete a monthly log of the services that
wereprovided during the month.
Objective 4 – To ensure that every need of the caregiving spouse is meet while the
service member is away.
Evaluation Criteria 1 – Parent will complete a monthly log of all classes
therapies or activities in which they participated during the month.
Part 1
There has been much concern about how military families with special
needs children live and whether they have the necessary resources.
Various bodies have proposed to investigate the matter of several of
these families having children with special needs. Such children deserve
to live comfortably like other children especially considering that
their breadwinners are serving the country in military missions. This
application seeks to provide the procedure of helping such families
including providing them with non-basic items and services including
child care, shopping, counseling services, group therapy, classes or
just a mental break.
Part 2: Methodology and Evaluation Plan
This report seeks to evaluate the procedure that can be used to
provide a grant to military families having children with special needs.
Some parts that will be explored include the methodology, research
design, human subjects, the credibility of the study, assumptions and
limitations, and evaluation plan.
Methodology
Program Description
The program is intended to reestablish independence to military
families having children with special needs. Those families need to live
comfortably like other families without having a feeling of
stigmatization. Many of the military families feel isolated since their
main source of income comes from undertaking military missions and their
supporters are mostly away for various missions. Hence, there is a need
to help the families restore their joy by providing support to the
children with special needs to make them feel comfortable. Some services
that can be provided to them include counseling services, group
therapy, classes or just a mental break.
Research Design
This research design will be quantitative research since there is a
need to quantify different supportive aspects such as the number of
military families having children with special needs and the exact
number of children per family. The survey quantitative design is the
most appropriate considering that the researcher will have to collect
data based on direct visit to those families or using the military
records in every given region to ascertain the number of families and
children. Oakshott (2016) states that survey means is a statistical
method involving the study of sampling of individual units from a
population using means such as questionnaire. Hence, this technique is
suitable for collecting the family information that needs support.
Human Subjects
The participant population will consist of adults between the age of
20 and 50 years. One key requirement is the knowledge of the community
that they will be surveying. Secondly, there is a need of basic
knowledge of special needs since the families may need some guidance
pertaining the issue. Also, an additional requirement will be that those
who have the same families having children with special needs will have
an added advantage in joining the team.
Study Validity and Reliability
The validity of the sources is examined using various means. For
example, the articles which are peer reviewed are considered valid since
they have been evaluated by the scholars in the same field. Hence, any
source in the field of special needs or military that has goon through
scholarly review is regarded as valid and can be used in this study.
Secondly, recent sources which with around nine years after publications
are regarded as valid since their content is up to date as opposed to
those that have completed many years with old information.
On the other hand, reliability of a given source is defined as its
ability to be present when needed for either reference or when there is a
clarification to make from it. According to Guest, Namey and Mitchell
(2012), the sources’ reliability does not imply validity since
non-scholarly source can as well be available ones that serves
quantitative research. Hence, the sources that will be used in this
study need to be credible and reliable.
Assumptions and Limitations
An assumption refers to an unexamined credence which researchers use
while conducting a given study. Researches cannot be efficiently
undertaken without making the assumptions but, those assumptions does
not need to affect the conclusion significantly (Guest, Namey, &
Mitchell, 2012). Some assumptions that this study will make include
length of time that will be taken to conduct survey and the services
that participants will be accorded during the activity. For instance, it
could be difficult to quantify the exact time required to conduct a
survey considering other factors such as the availability of members
expected to contribute to the survey, but an approximation need to be
provided.
Limitations are anything that limits the research for the program.
There can be limitations for the length of time, the place, getting
participants to return or remain in the study. The time required to
acquire full information about the families and the type of special
needs may be longer than the designated time. Also, the sources of
research are assumed to be credible regardless of the author’s opinions
despite using the scholarly sources.
Timeline (sample below)
Activity
Time Frame
Instrument/Survey Development
Weeks, months, others
Pilot Testing
5 weeks
Subject Recruitment
1 month
Application of therapy or service
1 month
Other possible services
6 weeks
parental education
7 weeks
Counselling
1 week
Da
ta Entry and Cleaning
5 weeks
Data Analysis
1 week
Report Generation
1 week
Analysis
The analysis of data will be done in phases. Firstly, all data from
given regions will be compiled as a preparation for analysis. Secondly,
data will be analyzed based on those regions before combining the
results at a more hierarchical level. For instance, the results from
every state can be compiled and analyzed and later combine them for
final outcome.
Non-personnel Resources
Some non-personnel resources required for this study include rooms,
computers, files, chairs, and foodstuff. The rooms will be rented in
every location near the place where data will be collected. Files and
other writing materials will be used by the participants to enter
details of the families that will survey before recording them in
computer. Every non-personnel response will be gathered for by the
organizations that will fund the study.
Personnel resources
Some people who will work for the program include the following:
· The surveyors– these people will collect data from the military families that submit them to the analysts.
· The analysts: these people will analyze data upon receiving and they are distributed into different levels.
· The counselors– this group comprise of people who will
accompany the surveyors and recommend to the analysts the appropriate
actions to be taken.
Management Plan
I am the principle investigator in this project and my main role is
to recommend the steps that needs to be taken while undertaking the
activity (Perrewé, 2011). Also, I will be responsible for the actions
that the three therapists; family, cognitive-behavioral and
emotion-focused will be doing to ensure that the process is successful.
For instance, I will confirm that those therapists will provide services
that are appropriate to both children with special needs and their
guardians. Furthermore, the two human service professionals focusing on
substance abuse and addiction treatment will be responsible for focusing
and providing treatment and prevention and I will be overseeing the
process.
Also, I will manage different players during the survey and ensure
that they will be undertaking their work as expected. The project
director will plan all the procedure that will be used in the study and
ensure that it is followed to the end (Perrewé, 2011). The assistant
therapists will provide support to the main therapists or represent them
in case of absence. Also, I will oversee the work done by the
clinicians perform their duty upon recommendation. Their role will be
treating the children upon any need as recommended by the analysts
before providing other special services to those children. Other parties
that I will be in charge of their services include volunteers or
interns and the statistician.
Evaluation Plan
Description of Specific Criteria
The participants must undergo some criteria to ensure that this
process is successful. For instance, there is a need to ensure that
every surveyor has a background information about the region they will
be surveying while the analysts must have basic knowledge of special
needs. Also, the counselor must be able to respond to the family’s
queries pertaining the special issues that are studied.
Explanation of Data That Will be collected
The survey quantitative design is the most appropriate considering
that the researcher will have to collect data based on direct visit to
those families or using the military records in every given region to
ascertain the number of families and children. Oakshott (2016) states
that survey means is a statistical method involving the study of
sampling of individual units from a population using means such as
questionnaire. Hence, this technique is suitable for collecting the
family information that needs support.
The children’s past and present mental, psychological and emotional
health will be collected to assess how well the family, emotion-focused
and cognitive-behavioral therapy works to increase their well-being
(Oakshott, 2016). There may also be information needed at pre and post
the program. Information can come from several sources such as
therapists, quantitative data on how many participate, academics, test
scores, qualitative data on how participants feel or how therapists rate
progress.
Explanation of the Data Collection Plans
To collect the above data, the children will go through mental,
psychological and emotional testing at the beginning of the project,
while academics will be collected from the children’s schools and
discussions will take place with teacher (Mertens & McLaughlin,
2004). There are some steps that will be used to collect data in those
families.
Firstly, after identifying that the issue to be studies pertains the
children with special needs from military families, then internal
assessment is done to understand what is happening in and out of the
organization undertaking research. Secondly, the organization will
select the specific issues in every family and set an objective to
achieve after a given time. This action will ensure that appropriate
data will be collected once data is collected (Mertens and McLaughlin,
2004). Planning an approach and methods that will be used to collect
data is the third step that will involve making decisions about specific
families that will be surveyed and the data collection methods.
Collection of data involves consulting the key stakeholders both in
the military sector and the organization before establishing a steering
committee who will undertake various roles. The people who will collect
data include are representatives and teachers (Mertens and McLaughlin,
2004). For instance, the targeted children are expected to go through
mental, psychological and emotional testing as the data collection
commence. The children identified to be having special needs are then
recorded in files and all the family information noted as well. The
process will be repeated in all the schools in the region before being
compiled for analysis and conclusion.
Evaluation of Instruments
Interviews and surveys were chosen as the evaluation instruments as
we are going to be implementing this program throughout a long period of
time, 36-month and we expected many participants for credibility of
data. The survey method will involve using schools and direct visit to
military families to ascertain the children with special needs. Hence,
mental, psychological and emotional testing will be conducted before
seeking the guardians’ advice on the same. Hence, a simple questionnaire
with some questions shall be included. Simple and open-ended questions
will be used for efficiency and more accuracy. For instance, ‘Has this
child been behaving normally without signs of stress?’
Periodic Reports
Some periodic reports that we will gain in addition to the larger
evaluations we are focusing on include the periodic reports on program
and structure and the effectiveness of the personnel. These reports will
guide the leading teams to recommend the appropriate changes that may
need to be taken to arrive at a successful completion.
Conclusion
This report examined the methodology and the evaluation plan for
grant application for military families having children with special
needs. The quantitative research is recommended since there is a need to
quantify different supportive aspects such as the number of military
families having children with special needs and the exact number of
children per family. Also, various personnel and non-personnel resources
have been evaluated and the result shows that there is enough of them
to run the project successfully. Also, the criteria that the
participants are expected to follow are evaluated before evaluating the
data collection instruments.
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