Overview:

In Milestone One, you selected an agency and developed an issue statement regarding a need of that agency. In this milestone, you will incorporate your Milestone One work into the Overview of Community and Need section and then research the need described in your issue statement and produce a literature review that lists the resources you consulted. There will be research to be performed for this milestone. This will be the second of three milestones that lead to a successful capstone completion. Once you have researched, identified, and located the articles for your literature review, you need to analyze them and organize them before you begin working on your outline. You should organize these articles to best help you formulate evidence-based recommendations that will make a positive difference in the agency.

Prompt:

You will submit your agency needs assessment, which includes a literature review with a brief synopsis of each resource you plan to use for the findings and recommendations report. You should use both primary and secondary sources, evaluate how these sources relate to your issue, develop criminological theories, discuss any ethical impact, describe any technological impact, and provide a review of the literature on the issue. Your findings and recommendations report (Milestone Three) will include the statement of need, program recommendations, goals and objectives, staffing/administration/resource needs, and evaluation plan.

Make sure to include the following in your paper:

Capstone Component 1: Agency Needs Assessment

I. Overview of Community and Need:
This section should serve as the foundation for presenting your agency needs assessment; it is your opportunity to comprehensively describe the selected agency and its identified need. Overall, it is important to include any information that is pertinent for comprehending the agency and need. It is up to you to establish a robust context for understanding and responding to the agencys need.

II. Communication with the Agency:
This section should include a summary of your research in addition to any correspondence between you and your selected agency that has occurred up to this point in the term. This will include the agencys description of its need and why it is a need, as well as the research you conducted with the agency to obtain additional information about the need, such as why the need is present and what resources were previously used to attempt to address the need. While conducting interviews with the agency, use the interview consent form provided in the course materials. Remember: If you are not able to get in contact with an agency, you may use the agencys website and the agencys mission and vision for the foundation of your project.

III. Gathering Community Information (Methodology):
Your methodology for this project is a brief systematic literature review. In this section, discuss how you collected your information and provide justification for your chosen method(s). Describe step-by-step for the reader how you conducted your brief systematic literature review so that the reader could follow your methods if they wanted to replicate the study.

IV. Literature Review:
Using primary and secondary sources, provide a brief review of the literature and an evaluative review of the topic. What does the literature say about the topic, and how will you utilize this information? Through a review of the literature, your evaluation should include but not be limited to the relationship of the following to your topic:

A.  The application of criminological theories B.  Ethical impact C.  The impact of the organizational culture D.  The impact of technologies E.  Previously attempted interventions in other agencies around this issue and their success (or lack thereof)

V. Need Analysis: This section should include your analysis of the data you gathered on the agency need. This will provide your conclusions drawn from the raw data you described in the preceding section. Referring to your assessment of the agency and comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the problem, address the following: A.  What is the magnitude of the problem in the agency? B.  What resources and interventions currently exist in the agency? C.  Provide a description of the impact the current resources and interventions are having on the agency. Are they effective? Why or why not? D.  What obstacles exist in the agency that prevent impacting or addressing the problem?

Guidelines for Submission:
Your paper must be submitted as a 3- 5 -page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.