What is the goal, mission, or philosophy of the agency? Describe the funding sources of this agency. Describe the population served by this agency. What types of services are provided by this agency?

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SOC230 DATA FORM for AGENCY INTERVIEW/ONLINE AGENCY SEARCH

Use this form to record the results of your interview or online search of an agency, and limit your responses to no more than two pages. Share your research with your classmates through the Discussion area, and be sure to comment on at least two other learner’s reports.

Submitted by: Name of Agency: Address including city and state:
Web address and/or name of person interviewed: Date of interview or online search: What is the goal, mission, or philosophy of the agency? Describe the funding sources of this agency.
Describe the population served by this agency. (ethnic, age, religious, gender, socioeconomic status)
What types of services are provided by this agency?
Why did you choose this agency to interview or research? What are your impressions of the agency and the work that it does?

Complete the Agency Information Form. Use complete sentences where appropriate, and be sure to include your overall impressions of the agency on the form.

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Human services assignment and agency interview

You are ready to become familiar with a Human Services agency or organization of your choice (Disabled American Veterans).  Learners are sometimes surprised at how many people are flattered when asked to be interviewed about the work they do.  Most learners are surprised at how much they enjoy and learn from the next assignment.  Many people have a limited idea about what Human Services are, who provides them, and who benefits from them.

This assignment will provide you with an opportunity to learn more about human service delivery in general, and one agency specifically, as you choose one agency to learn about in detail. Learners are asked to either make a personal visit to interview someone at a human services agency OR to complete a detailed report about an agency learned about through an online search. You may also participate in a skype/video call since it would be very much like an in-person interview.

AGENCY INTERVIEW or ONLINE AGENCY SEARCH

To begin, review both project descriptions below and select one of the two assignment projects to complete. Then complete the assignment according to the details provided.

  1. Agency Interview

Learners will make a personal, on-site visit to one Human Services Agency or Organization of your choice and interview an employee about the work that he/she does and the agency that employs the interviewee.
For the visit, you should take the printed Agency Information Form to fill in and make notes of all the required information.

After the visit:

  • Complete the Agency Information Form. Use complete sentences where appropriate, and be sure to include your overall impressions of the agency on the form.

OR

  1. Online Agency Search

Learners will choose an agency that provides Human Services in the community you now live in (Disabled American Veterans, website: About Our Charity – Disabled American Veterans – DAV) and complete an online search about it. Please use the Agency Information Form to document what you have learned.

After the online search:

  • Complete the Agency Information Form. Use complete sentences where appropriate, and be sure to include your overall impressions of the agency on the form.

Your post should be at least 300-500 words, and must substantively address the assignment language above and any citations with proper style formatting.  Remember to attach a copy of your Agency Review Form along with your post.

 

As you reflect on the meaning of this quote, explain how it relates to the generalist human services professional as he/she helps clients with their “problems in living.”

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Quote Reflection: The Impact of Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.” – Albert Schweitzer

Explore Schweitzer’s biographyLinks to an external site.

Read the quote and then the biography of Albert Schweitzer. Based on your integration and application of the chapter readings, module notes, professional experience, and external sources, compose a thoughtful response to the following discussion prompts:

  • As you reflect on the meaning of this quote, explain how it relates to the generalist human services professional as he/she helps clients with their “problems in living.”
  • What personal meaning, if any, does this quote have for you in your life?

 

Label each of their current positions relative to the characteristics in the far-left. If their current level is not satisfactory, label the necessary level for a successful project with an O.

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Open Excel with the QI Macros add-in.

  1. Click “Planning & PM Tools” in the QI Macros menu. Then, click “Stakeholder Analysis” as shown below.
  1. A grid will appear with generic roles populated, similar to the grid below:
  2. Obviously, this current grid is not tailored to this project so it will need to be further edited and customized.
  1. Remove all existing Os and Xs.
  2. Clear out the groups “Sales,” “Management,” and “Customer.”
  3. Add two more columns to the matrix. The grid should now look like the one below:
  1. Open the original case study briefing document: Week 2 – Manufacturing– Initial Reading for Case Study.doc. This document is required to provide some background on the stakeholders.
  1. Populate five stakeholders (either people and/or groups) in the top row of yellow cells.
  1. Label each of their current positions relative to the characteristics in the far-left.
  2. If their current level is not satisfactory, label the necessary level for a successful project with an O.

 

Provide examples of how the Six Sigma methodology can be applied to improve processes in car manufacturing. When, where and who introduced the Six Sigma Concept? And what is Six Sigma used for in a organization?

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Video Review A – Six Sigma

  1. Watch the video A: Six Sigma in 9 minutes. What is Six Sigma?
  2. Answer Questions #1 thru #7:

Q1. Provide examples of how the Six Sigma methodology can be applied to improve processes in car manufacturing.

Q2. When, where and who introduced the Six Sigma Concept? And what is Six Sigma used for in a organization?

Q3. What is Six Sigma used for in an organization and what is the maximum allowed level of defects in a Six-Sigma process?

Q4. Describe the DMAIC method and describe what is done at each of the 5 stages of the method.

Q5. Describe the DMADV method, when it is applied and what is done at each of the 5 stages of the method.

Q6. In your own words, what is the Lean methodology?

Q7. In your own words, what is the focus of the Lean Six Sigma methodology?

  1. Watch the video B: Lean Six Sigma in 8 minutes
  2. Answer Questions #8 thru #10:

Q8. What is waste, according to the Lean methodology?

Q9. What are the 8 categories of Waste? Provide a brief description of every category.

Q10. According to the video, what is JIT, 5S and Kanban methodologies and describe what they are used for?

 

Install XAMPP on your laptop/computer. Create database in MySql. Create an HTML form. Write PHP script for connecting to XAMPP and MySQL database.

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Project Description 1 (Student Information System):

This project is about the creation of PHP and MySQL based web application in which you will be required to save data into MySQL database using PHP.  You are required to fulfill the following requirements.

Download the XAMPP server by following the link.

Download XAMPP (apachefriends.org)

 

  1. Install XAMPP on your laptop/computer.
  2. Create database in MySql.
  3. Create an HTML form.

 

  1. Write PHP script for connecting to XAMPP and MySQL database.
  2. Execute MySQL query from php using HTML form.
  3. Run the Project and store the data.

 

Project Description 2 (Class Registration Form):

This project is about the creation of PHP and MySQL based web application in which you will be required to submit the html form into MySQL database using PHP.  You are required to fulfill the following requirements.

Download the XAMPP server by following the link.

Download XAMPP (apachefriends.org)

  1. Install XAMPP on your laptop/computer
  2. Create database in MySql
  3. Create an HTML form.
  4. Write PHP script for connecting to XAMPP and MySQL database.
  5. Execute MySQL query from php using HTML form.
  6. Run the Project and store the data.

 

Project Description 3 (Employee Registration Form):

This project is about the creation of PHP and MySQL based web application in which you will be required to submit the html form into MySQL database using PHP.  You are required to fulfill the following requirements.

Download the XAMPP server by following the link.

Download XAMPP (apachefriends.org)

  1. Install XAMPP on your laptop/computer
  2. Create database in MySql
  3. Create an HTML form.

 

  1. Write PHP script for connecting to XAMPP and MySQL database.
  2. Execute MySQL query from php using HTML form.
  3. Run the Project and store the data.

 

 

Discuss habits that can be used to enhance team success. Summarize the advantages of teams and benefits of teams in relation to the organization, manager, and employees.

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Roles and Behaviors of Teams

As the leader of this problem-solving team, you are tasked with assessing types of teams, benefits, and determinants of successful teams. The company has asked you for a two-page report outlining issues and recommendations for team interventions.

In your report, you will want to:
Compare the types of teams and how they are utilized within an organization.
Discuss habits that can be used to enhance team success.
Summarize the advantages of teams and benefits of teams in relation to the organization, manager, and employees.
Provide your recommendations of key determinants that contribute to successful teams and how they can be implemented in an organization.

Create a 750-1,000 word essay that describes literacy theories, instructional approaches, and reading and writing strategies to support literacy and content area teachers.

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Cross-Curricular Instructional Theories, Approaches, and Strategies

The foundational elements of content area instruction rest upon research-based instructional approaches, literary theories, and reading/writing strategies. As lifelong learners, reading specialists/literacy specialists apply these elemental concepts while also being informed about ongoing research that may offer additional insight for educators.

Create a 750-1,000 word essay that describes literacy theories, instructional approaches, and reading and writing strategies to support literacy and content area teachers.

Include the following in your essay:

Description of reader response theory, new criticism theory, and critical literary theory, and how they can be applied to current literacy curriculum.
Description of basal/anthology, literature-based, individualized reading and writing workshops, and integrated instructional approaches. Provide a brief analysis of how each relates to the literary theories above when creating a balanced literacy program.
Discuss at least two evidence-based reading strategies that support the literary theories described. Include an explanation of how to support culturally responsive learning in the classroom.
Discuss at least two evidence-based writing strategies that support the literary theories described. Include how each inform writing instruction and support reading across content areas.
Support your essay with a minimum of 3-5 resources.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is/is not required.

Identify the major hardware and software components of your hypothetical e-commerce company’s information systems infrastructure. Design your e-commerce company’s hardware and software from a size, scale, type, and interoperability standards perspective.

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Project Management – Infrastructure Design

This is the third in a series of five sequential assignments (the course project) in which you continue to act as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a hypothetical e-commerce start-up company of your design.

You have been working on delivering an information technology project plan in anticipation of the company relocating to a new facility.

In the first course project deliverable, you created a project plan inception document and supporting Gantt chart.
In the second course project deliverable, you developed the business requirements to be incorporated into the information systems design you are creating. You also updated your original supporting Gantt chart based on major and minor tasks identified in the business requirements document.
In this third course project deliverable, you will create an infrastructure design that considers the key elements of software, hardware, security, and business process flow for your e-commerce startup company. You will also use graphics tools to create a supporting data flow diagram (DFD) for your infrastructure design. The infrastructure design provides an opportunity to visualize the key elements and how they are connected for maximum effectiveness.

This assignment consists of two-parts:

Part 1: Infrastructure Design
You will create an 8–10 page infrastructure design document to include key technical elements for your hypothetical e-commerce company’s information systems infrastructure.

Part 2: Updated Gantt Chart
You will use Microsoft Project to again update the supporting project Gantt chart begun in your first course project deliverable:

You are not creating a new Gantt chart, only updating the one you created in the previous assignment with the major and minor tasks uncovered while creating the infrastructure design document.

Note: You are to create or infer all necessary assumptions to successfully complete this assignment.
You must submit both parts as separate files to the assignment area. Label each file name according to the appropriate part.

Instructions

Part 1: Infrastructure Design Document
Write an 8–10 page infrastructure design document in which you:

Identify the major hardware and software components of your hypothetical e-commerce company’s information systems infrastructure.
Design your e-commerce company’s hardware (database, proxy servers, network equipment) and software (analytics, big data, API, content management) from a size, scale, type, and interoperability standards perspective.
Document the potential security vulnerabilities and a security design for your e-commerce company.
Use graphics tools to create a data flow diagram (DFD) for your e-commerce company.
Use three sources to support your writing. (Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. Access the library or review library guides for help with research, writing, and citation.)

Part 2: Updated Gantt Chart
Use Microsoft Project to:

Update the previously created Gantt chart with the major and minor tasks identified in the infrastructure design document

Analyze and evaluate the significant points of your case study for research to write your analytical essay. Use your time to develop a deep understanding of your topic to explain your stance on the topic fully.

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The principles of mission command in Operation Anaconda.

Analyze and evaluate the significant points of your case study for research to write your analytical essay. Use your time to develop a deep understanding of your topic to explain your stance on the topic fully. You are required to give an in-depth introduction to your topic. Provide transitional sentences from one topic to the next. Then develop the body of the paper entirely using no less than three total pages and no more than five pages, this does not include the APA format title and references page. Finally, provide a summative conclusion. Provide a total of two references for your references page. Ensure you use Times New Roman 12-point font and the current APA Writing Style.