TRENTON-MERCER CONTINUUM OF CARE PROGRAM

Write a paper of 3000 to 4000 words (12 to 15 pages) in which you develop an Academic Community Impact Project Proposal that meets a need defined with a community partner organization.

Final Project Outline

The final project should be structured as follows:

Introduction/Overview: Provide a 1-page overview of your project.

Needs Overview: Discuss the need of the community or organization that this project will address. ***LOOK AT PROJECT DESIGN ATTACHED****

Partner Overview: Summarize the history, values, and services of the organization you selected, and explain how and why they address the need discussed in the previous section.

Project Design: Include the project design.

Community Engagement Values: Discuss the community engagement values that this project embodies and represents.

Self-Assessment: Discuss how this project builds on your own skills and experiences, as well as how it meets your personal, professional, and/or academic goals.

Reflection: Discuss what you have learned through the development of this project.

In particular, answer the following questions:

  • How, if at all, has developing this project changed how you see your academic work in relationship to social change?
  • How, if at all, has developing this project changed how you see yourself as being able to create social change?
  • How, if at all, has developing this project changed your personal, professional, or academic goals or pathway?
  • What, if anything, have you learned through developing this project that you did not anticipate learning?

Conclusion: This should be a brief overview of the project and its potential impact on the community and/or organization.

Assignment Instructions
To create this final project, you will take material from previous assignments and connect these pieces into a coherent and well-structured single paper. To do so, follow these steps:

Review the final project outline, provided above. Think about what you will be able to use from your previous assignments for each section.

Review the following assignments from the perspective of the final project outline:

  • Personal, Professional, and Academic Self-Assessment
  • Community Engagement Values Exploration
  • Community Partner Exploration

Project Design

Borrowing from the previous assignments, begin to assemble the final project, using selected material from the previous assignments. You will be able to use some material directly from the previous assignments, but you will have to edit and revise the material so it fits the structure and flow of the final project.

Read through the feedback you received on your Final Project Draft to see where you need to edit and revise for consistency and flow, and revise the paper accordingly.

Write the Reflection section.

Reread your entire final paper, editing and revising along the way.