Option #1: Technology Improvement Plan

Community development increasingly relies upon the Internet to bridge divisions and to forge linkages between disparate communities. From Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, to instant messaging and e-mail, communities across the United States have turned to the Internet to not only connect communities but also to provide core government services. It is not an exaggeration to claim that the Internet has transformed the way that communities do business.

As the Planning Associate, you have been asked to submit a plan to the City Manager’s Office on strengthening your efforts in the area of technology. In an 8- to 10-page plan, reflect upon what strategies community developers could enact that would capitalize on the Internet to not only provide government services to citizens, but also to spark renewed development and interest in local communities. You may wish to focus on the following considerations:

• Do all citizens need Internet access? If so, how can communities provide greater access to broadband Internet access to their citizens? How would this enhance responsible community development?
• What government services can be transmitted to citizens via the Internet? Which should not? Why?
• Are social networking sites an effective mechanism for communities to link citizens and to encourage community development?
• What dangers, if any, confront community developers as they seek new technological means to provide linkages between citizens and between government and citizens?

You may, and indeed are encouraged to, support your arguments using strategies that you have either read about in the news or that you have seen enacted in your local communities. Use this as an opportunity to brainstorm about ways that community development can be enhanced in this, the Internet age. You also can visit the Urban Institute (Links to an external site.) for ideas or your local community development website.

The paper is due at the end of week 8 and must be:

• 8-10 pages in length,
• A minimum of five (5) outside sources including at least three (3) peer-reviewed journal articles,
• Set to Times New Roman 12-point black font,
• Double-spaced, and
• In CSU-Global APA format (Links to an external site.).

Make sure you include headings, per APA guidelines. Include a minimum of five (5) outside sources as well as course material. Sources should be adequately chosen to provide substance and perspectives on the issue.

Option #2: Communities of Interest Briefing

A community of interest is a group or community of people who share a common interest or passion. These people exchange ideas and thoughts about their given passion but may know (or care) little about each other outside of this area. Participation in a community of interest can be compelling, entertaining, and create a lot of emotion about the fairness of a topic or an issue. Frequently, they cannot be easily defined by a particular geographical area. In other words, a community of interest is a gathering of people assembled around a topic of common interest. Its members take part in the community to exchange information, to obtain answers to personal questions or problems, to improve their understanding of a subject, to share common passions, or to play. A “community of interest” is defined not by space or by a specific location but by some common bond (e.g., feeling of attachment) or entity (e.g., farming, church group, water quality, or the right to bear arms).

The sense of community that many Americans have no longer necessarily translates into interacting with people that live within a town, village, or city. This development—as one might expect—can lead to severe challenges to local community groups who seek to galvanize the population to work behind local initiatives, all the while realizing that many people who live in communities today consider not only their state but indeed—the world, as their community. Whether this is a good thing, or a bad thing, overall is best left for individuals to decide on their own.

As a Planning Associate, you have been asked to prepare a Community of Interest brief to the City Manager. In an 8- to 10-page paper, identify an issue or problem in your community that resulted in either citizen action or community development. Discuss the history of this situation and identify the factors and social forces that influenced some type of community development that you are aware of, or interested in, that you will focus on in your Portfolio Project for this class. Keep in mind that your response must focus on a community of interest. You also can visit the Urban Institute (Links to an external site.) for ideas or local community development website.

The paper is due at the end of week 8 and must be:

• 8-10 pages in length,
• A minimum of five (5) outside sources including at least three (3) peer-reviewed journal articles,
• Set to Times New Roman 12-point black font,
• Double-spaced, and
• in CSU-Global APA format (Links to an external site.).

Make sure you include headings, per APA guidelines. Include a minimum of five (5) outside sources as well as course material. Sources should be adequately chosen to provide substance and perspectives on the issue.

 Read the “Jed Assessment Case Study” and imagine that Jed is your client. Complete the relapse prevention plan worksheet by developing a relapse prevention plan for Jed. Use third person (i.e., Jed will or the client will) and assume that the two of you have formulated the plan together.

  

PCN-501 Relapse Prevention Plan

Read the Jed case study and create a relapse prevention plan for Jed. Keep in mind that you would typically create a relapse prevention plan in collaboration with the client to ensure the greatest chance for success; however, in this instance, you will create one for Jed based on what you can glean from the case study. 

Client Name: __________________________  Age/Date of Birth: _____________________

Date of Plan: __________________________  Next Date of Review:* __________________

 *This can be 30, 60, or 90 days.

Biopsychosocial Summary: 

Provide a brief description of the client’s presenting symptoms. 

  

<Add the client’s presenting symptoms here.>

Part 1: Harmful/Destructive Behaviors Chart

Complete the chart below by including a minimum of three behaviors as well as associated rewards and consequences related to relapse and abstinence behaviors. 

  

Harmful/destructive behaviors that the   client will need to avoid to prevent a relapse

Possible rewards for not maintaining   abstinence to prevent relapse

Possible costs for returning to use and the   associated consequences 

 

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Part 2: Current Risks of Relapse

In this section, you will identify the steps to reduce the risk of relapse. Describe how you might assist Jed to identify high-risk situations, and specific triggers leading to relapse.

1. What steps has the client already taken to reduce the risk of relapse? What is the client’s agreement to abstain from substance use/misuse? 

2. What are some high-risk situations that may trigger a relapse for the client? List three specific situations that may lead to relapse. 

3. What are some high-risk behaviors or irrational thinking that may create the urge to return to previous harmful behavior leading to relapse?

Part 3: Relapse Response Plan

In this section, you will create a response plan to use when the client is faced with triggers and urges to lapse into using behavior. Complete the chart below and include coping strategies, client’s skills to redirect thoughts, and immediate actions to take before using substances.

  

List three people that the client identifies   for a supportive network

List three new activities that increase   coping skills and strategies to assist in replacing high-risk thoughts and   behaviors

List three actions for new activities the   client indicates will be taken if a pattern of negative behaviors emerges 

 

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Part 4: Continued Health and Well-Being

1. Describe community and support resources that are available to the client. Identify how often and the amount of support group meetings the client will participate in (any type of recovery support meeting) to improve health and sobriety. 

2. Identify at least two strategies the client can do to improve his family relationships and describe how this is important to the success of the relapse prevention plan?

3. Describe how the ethnic and cultural aspects of the client may impact the relapse prevention plan?

4. Develop with the client an emergency contact sheet that the client may carry with them. Create a contact card with the client to list the people and resources to have available to use prior to a lapse or relapse to use substances.

  

 

Client Signature

Date

 

 

Counselor Signature

 

Research fixed and growth mindsets in scholarly peer reviewed journals. Write 500 words explaining what each is.  Evaluate yourself, do you think you have a growth mindset or fixed?  This assignment allows you to use first person.  You can say things like “I have a fixed mindset because I focus on grades rather than on mastering the material.” If you find that you are in a fixed mindset, what can you do to shift to a growth mindset?

For all paragraphs that do not include your opinion, self-assessment, or steps that you plan to take to shift your mindset, you must use references and citations.

Ensure you use citations and references to avoid plagiarism. Do use any sources other than those which you include in your references.  Ensure that all references are cited. 

Use APA 7th edition.

Be aware that if you plagiarize during this assignment it will be dealt with as outlined in UC’s policies.

 

Hello,

 Please find the attached assignment read it and follow the instructions of the assignment Rubric and the sample from an ex-student of the same class. 

Another thing, please, in my papers, can you minimize the use of PASSIVE VOICE all over my papers. For example, being included, are located, be considered, be accomplished, and the use of too many that, the & more in a sentence.

Thanks