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Community: what do we mean? -- Practicing occupation in the community -- Identifying trends and forecasting futures -- Program development: what skills will i need? -- Developing a time line for program design, planning, preparation -- Implementation, and evaluation -- Getting started: developing the design -- Profiling the community, targeting the population, and assessing the need for services -- Researching the "evidence," finding experts, and developing program goals -- Staffing and personnel -- Space; furnishings, equipment, and supplies -- Costs and projected funding needs -- Funding your program -- Marketing and promotion -- Program evaluation: how will outcomes be measured? -- Programming to support meaningful occupation and balance for the disenfranchised and homeless: the development of a proposal -- Intervention and support programming in day camps, sleep-away camps, and "adventures" -- Prevention and wellness programming within existing or newly formed clubs: collaboration and partnering -- Shelter programming for homeless persons with hiv/aids and mental -- Illness: exploring prevocational and vocational skills -- Programming for the homeless adolescent in transitional shelter: -- Film-making for high school credit -- Promotion of health, well-being and community: an intergenerational program for older adults living in a senior-care facility. |
