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Develop a proposal for your identified organization based on your previous assignments. There are several sections in most proposals. While they may be different, they have very similar content, generally in a similar order. Use the template provided. Provide information in each of the categories, even if you don’t have much information in some of them. Be sure to cite data and information sources. Use the Needs Statement, and the budget information you started on in 6.1.
organization :Charlotte Bridge Home
Please look at the feedback offered by the instructor about the PowerPoint presentation assignment from last week. Make the necessary changes and use that information to complete this week’s assignment
Instructor’s Feedback
Pauline,
We talked about this during supervision. You first talk about adding technology then your proposal states you want to add mental health services.
Did you talk to anyone at Charlotte Bridge? How do veterans receive mental health referrals now?How does Charlotte Bridge Home provide assistance? You need to introduce Charlotte Bridge and tell about their services. You also will need to talk about what exactly you propose to do. How much money will it take to budget? What exactly will be the proposal?
Prof. O
ProposalPresentation 1
Proposal Presentation
Description
For this presentation assignment, you will prepare and deliver a 15-20 minute original problem-solution
persuasive speech.
The ideas in your presentation must be supported by evidence. A minimum of five appropriate,
relevant, timely sources is required; one of these sources may be a personal interview with a credible,
relevant authority.
Process
Viewing
Watch the following before you begin work on your speech. The first link takes you to a short review of
the problem-solution format. The second link takes you to a good example of a problem-solution
speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QLOOZez_h8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReZYWVEW4xw
After completing the reading and viewing assignments associated with the speech, follow the key steps
to design and present your speech. Complete the Persuasive Speech Worksheet based upon the key
steps.
1. Consider your audience.
2. Select and narrow your topic.
3. Determine your general and specific purposes. The general purpose in this assignment is to
persuade. The specific purpose of a speech identifies what you want your listeners to be able to do,
remember, or feel at the end of your speech.
4. Develop your central idea. The central idea summarizes your identified need in a single sentence.
5. Generate the main ideas. The main ideas are the key points in a speech; these are derived from the
central idea.
6. Gather supporting material. Supporting material includes facts, examples, definitions, and
quotations from others. Remember sources must be acknowledged in the speech. An oral source
citation typically includes the author, title, and year of publication.
7. Organize your presentation. Every pesentation, including the persuasive speech, should have an
introduction, a body, and a conclusion. The introduction gains audience attention, previews the major
Proposal Presentation 2
ideas in the speech, and provides audience members with reasons to listen to the speech. The body
presents and supports the main ideas. The conclusion summarizes the main ideas and restates the
central idea.
Veterans In Charlotte Bridge Home
Implementation of Technology Systems to help Veterans
Introduction
All soldiers are impacted by their experiences in war.
For many, surviving the challenges of war can be rewarding, maturing, and growth-promoting (e.g., greater self-efficacy, enhanced identity and sense of purposefulness, pride, camaraderie.
The demands, stressors, and conflicts of participation in war can also be traumatizing, spiritually and morally devastating, and transformative in potentially damaging ways.
The impact of which can be manifest across the lifespan.
The psychological, social, and psychiatric toll of war can be immediate, acute, and chronic. These time intervals reflect periods of adaptation to severe war-zone stressors that are framed by different individual, contextual, and cultural features (and unique additional demands), which are important to appreciate whenever a Veteran of war presents clinically.
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Purpose Statement
The purpose of Charlotte Bridge home’s project is to implement technology systems to ensure that in the long run, information about service, illnesses and any family related sensitive matter of different soldiers is well handled to cope up with Post Traumatic Stress.
The project will see more education centers established and additional educators hired to offer the veterans a transitional education and knowledge after participating in war.
The transition from military to civilian life was often difficult for men and women who had been away for years. Soldiers lobbied for greater financial benefits and forms of recognition while adjusting to civilian lives. Governments sought to remain financially responsible while still treating veterans appropriately. Post-war social and economic unrest affected the prospects for both.
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Project Implementation
The project in question is the implementation of technology systems at Charlotte bridge home.
The project is aimed at looking into the issues that veterans suffer from.
After war, veterans will be required to enroll for the program.
This will help to regain their lives back to adjust to the civilian life.
The organization will be taking at least 500 veterans per program
Officers routinely use post-battle “debriefing” to allow soldiers to vent and share their emotional reactions. The theory is that this will enhance morale and cohesion and reduce “battle fatigue”. Even if soldiers manifest clear and unequivocal signs of severe war-zone stress reactions that affect their capacity to carry out their responsibilities, attempts are made to restore the soldier to duty as quickly as possible by providing rest, nourishment, and opportunities to share their experiences, as close to their units as possible. The guiding principal is known as Proximity – Immediacy – Expectancy – Simplicity (“PIES”). Early intervention is provided close to a soldier’s unit, as soon as possible. Soldiers are told that their experience is normal and they can expect to return to their unit shortly. They are also provided simple interventions to counteract “fatigue” (e.g., “three hots and a cot”). The point here is that soldiers who experience severe war-zone stress reactions will have likely received some sort of special care and treated humanely. On the other hand, it is without question stigmatizing for soldiers to openly share fear and doubt and to reveal signs of reduced capacity. This is especially true in the modern, all volunteer, military with many soldiers looking to advance their careers. Thus, it is entirely possible that some Veterans who present at Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers will have suffered silently and may still feel a great need not to not show vulnerability because of shame.
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Cont…
More psychiatrists and social workers will be hired to take care of the veterans after enrolment.
Veterans will be trained on how they can live in the normal society.
The people who are close to the veterans will also be reached to engage in collaborative efforts to ensure that the program is as effective as possible.
In the war-zone, soldiers are taxed physically and emotionally in ways that are unprecedented for them. Although soldiers are trained and prepared through physical conditioning, practice, and various methods of building crucial unit cohesion and buddy-based support, inevitably, war-zone experiences create demands and tax soldiers and unit morale in shocking ways. In addition, the pure physical demands of war-zone activities should not be underestimated, especially the behavioral and emotional effects of circulating norepinephrine, epinephrine and cortisol (stress hormones), which sustain the body’s alarm reaction (jitteriness, hypervigilance, sleep disruption, appetite suppression, etc.)
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Analysis
Wartime propaganda had promised veterans a “land fit for heroes,” but the fragile U.S. economy has difficulty supporting hundreds of thousands of demobilized soldiers.
Some veterans return to pre-war jobs, which had often been held for them by patriotic employers.
However, others struggle as industries gear to military production reducing their workforces or closing altogether (John, 2017).
Despite downward trends in unemployment across the country, veterans who served during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars still have difficulty finding work, according to government jobs data issued Thursday. About one in 11 of them — 9% — were jobless in 2013, lower but not statistically different than the 2012 rate for this group, according to the report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Within that generation, veterans who actually deployed to either or both wars had the highest jobless rates of 10% or more, according to a snapshot of unemployment for one month, August, 2013. Analysts say finding work is toughest on those who served on the front lines: infantry.
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The government developed a progressive, if complicated, pension and benefits scheme, but not all veterans are equally eligible.
Those suffering from poison gas, chronic illness, or mental trauma, for example, often had difficulty convincing pension adjudicators that their symptoms were war-related.
This is a prerequisite for a successful claim.
Veterans with certain diseases that presented themselves after discharge from military service may be eligible for disability compensation. This includes certain diseases that were not incurred in or aggravated by military service, but which VA presumes are related to military service if shown to exist within a certain time period after service. Examples include: hypertension, arthritis, diabetes mellitus, and peptic ulcers.
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Soldiers without arms, legs, or eyes are difficult to refute.
But those with disease, debilitating illness, or psychological ailments encounter greater skepticism and more frequent rejection.
This makes the difficult to easily cope up with the civilian life.
This project will ensure there are more education centers and educators to offer the veterans a transitional education and knowledge.
Veterans may have been exposed to a range of chemical, physical, and environmental hazards during military service. Veterans may be entitled to disability compensation if exposure to these hazards resulted in a disease or injury. Examples include exposure to radiation, mustard gas, and asbestos, permanent injury such as loss of body parts among others.
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Unemployment for veterans from 18 to 24 hit 21.6 percent in 2009, slightly higher than the unemployment rate of 19.1 percent for their civilian counterparts.
This is according to the report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Of all the veterans from past wars, soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have experienced higher rates of joblessness.
any veterans have skills in specific areas that can translate into success in private industry. For example, some might be experts in supply chain management, personnel management or tactical operations.
According to a report from Texas State University, it’s translating those accomplishments into language a civilian can understand that is important. It’s also important for veterans to network. Almost every veteran has a group of fellow soldiers – who themselves are highly skilled – that they keep in contact with. That’s networking at its most basic.
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Unemployment rates among young veterans have increased because members of the National Guard and Army Reserve are serving longer stints abroad.
Some military experts say they believe some companies are reluctant to hire people in the National Guard or Army Reserve because they may leave for duty again.
Companies cannot afford those kinds of abrupt changes in an economic downturn.
Most military operations require a great deal of planning, as do those in the business world. However, what the military also emphasizes is the ability to change plans on the run and reacting to ever-shifting conditions. Again, this is something very valued in the business community, particularly with so much business moving online where things can change very quickly with instantaneous communication.
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Cont…
The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act was passed in 1994 to ensure that soldiers would have their jobs when they returned.
However, some employers have found loopholes around the law.
Veterans have trouble translating some of their military skills into the civilian workplace.
The military puts an emphasis on duty, honor and responsibility – all important traits for leading in the business world, as well.
The military puts an emphasis on duty, honor and responsibility – all important traits for leading in the business world, as well. In fact, many learn in the military a far higher level of professionalism than what other students learn in college.
Many military leaders are forged in situations that require strategic planning and competitive intelligence. As noted by the Harvard Business Review, this had led to a number of successful CEOs who came from the military, including Foot Locker’s Ken Hicks, from Proctor and Gamble CEO Bob McDonald and former Acxiom CEO John Meyer.
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Cont…
In many cases, all the skills and knowledge the veterans need to get a job in the civilian world are already there.
They just need to know what those skills are and be able to communicate them in a way potential employers will understand (Dick, 2014).
This project will ensure that veterans are taught on the ways to reestablish contacts with people they have met both in and out of the military.
A recent study indicates that many veterans find one of the biggest transition challenges to be explaining how their military skills translate to a civilian work environment. Some great news from the same survey is that nearly all veterans believe they have the skills needed to land their ideal job. So it is just a matter of communicating those skills
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Cont…
The first step in preparing for a civilian interview is to recognize these skills.
The second step is to value them.
One way of valuing them is helping them management Post Traumatic Stress after war.
Charlotte Bridge home’s project purposes to take care of the adjustment period as they integrate back into the civilian culture.
For those just coming out of the military, it is important to understand that there will be an adjustment period as you integrate back into civilian culture. The standard modes of military thinking and behavior can be vastly different from those of the civilian-workforce world, but once you recognize these differences you will be able to adapt to them more easily—after all, service members are excellent at adapting to new situations
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Cont…
Some of the differences between military and civilian-workforce culture include attire, language and word choice.
The formality of verbal and nonverbal communication also vary in both settings.
Other areas that this program focuses on include receptiveness to opinions, leadership styles, the focus on responsibilities versus results, and even possibly the definition of success that vary in the two worlds (Miley, 2017).
Veterans have just come from a structured environment in which they were trained to develop responses and take initiative to accomplish a mission. These traits will be welcome in the civilian workforce, and they will have many opportunities to use them, just in different ways. While in an interview, they want to spotlight how veterans can adapt to new surroundings and how this means you will be able to fit with the company’s culture. They need to be trained on how to present themselves in ways that make sense for the civilian workforce but still let their personal strengths and qualifications shine through.
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Cont…
It is important to understand that for soldiers who may be in a war-zone for protracted periods of time, with ongoing risks and hazards, the acute adaptation interval spans the period from the point at which the soldier is objectively safe and free from exposure to severe stressors to approximately one month after return to the U.S.
This corresponds to the interval defined for Acute Stress Disorder (ASD).
Many U.S. veterans from the Vietnam War and early Iraq wars are aging and experiencing multiple physical and mental health issues. Clinical nurse specialists shine in this sort of complex chronic illness management. They’re adept at handling these problems and helping patients learn to be good self-managers of complex health problems.
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This distinction is made so that a period of adaptation can be identified by social workers and psychiatrists to discern how a soldier is doing psychologically when they get a chance to recover naturally (Coll, 2013).
The project will see more healthcare practitioners in health care centers subscribing to providing health care services to these service men.
Everyone agrees that we should do all we can to improve the care we provide our veterans. But not everyone understands the barriers that exist that prevent patients from receiving quality care, namely access to health care. As more and more physicians move to specialty practices, quality primary and outpatient care are falling by the wayside, and veterans are among those paying the price. That’s why the proposal by the Veterans Health Administration to expand the role and authority of nurses is laudable. The proposal would amend the Department of Veterans Affairs’ medical regulations policy to allow their patients to receive care from qualified advanced practice registered nurses, or APRNs
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Proposal
The social environment that has awaited veterans after their service is different today than it was for some previous generations of veterans.
By and large, the civilian population is now accepting of veterans and thankful for their service.
In contrast with the experience of Vietnam veterans, today’s returning soldiers and recently discharged veterans should received a warm welcome home.
One of the greatest challenges for veterans is navigating the benefit and support system for veterans (53%), followed closely by the basic transitional steps of “figuring out what’s next” (50%) and readjusting to their social lives outside of the military (48%).
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Cont…
Veterans should be subjected to counseling and therapies as the most strategic methods to address Post Traumatic Stress.
This will help them to forget their experiences at war and adjust the civilian life (Dick, 2014).
The project will help solve the problem by providing psychological help to the veterans.
American combat veterans have a much higher prevalence of PTSD than American civilians. Between 11-20% of veterans from Operations Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Enduring Freedom (OEF) experience posttraumatic stress in a given year. Approximately 12% of Gulf War (Desert Storm) veterans and 15% of Vietnam veterans are affected by PTSD on an annual basis. The lifetime prevalence of PTSD for Vietnam veterans is 30%.
Military personnel are at higher risk for developing posttraumatic stress because service members are intimately involved in wartime incidents that may be frightening, horrifying, and at times, life-threatening. One emotionally overwhelming incident may be enough for PTSD to develop, but combat often facilitates prolonged and repeated exposure to traumatic events.
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Summary
The estimated cost of the project is $28000.
The project will start by recruiting 500 veterans in the first phase.
Veterans have offered great service to the country hence need not to struggle to get jobs after their return.
Veterans offer a unique set of skills, experiences and leadership abilities developed and honed during their years in the military and in the crucible of combat, yet unemployment rates highlight the difficulties returning veterans are facing in their search for new careers.
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Veterans need better employment.
They should have good jobs after the military work to help continue providing for their families.
This project aims at having a huge base of potential employers who are ready to absorb the veterans after the expiration of their military service.
Aside from the difficulties of the current job market, one of the greatest challenges veterans report in finding a job is explaining how their military skills translate to the civilian workforce. Nearly all believe they have the skills needed to land their ideal job, but the majority express concerns about how to translate their skills to a business environment. Half are specifically concerned about employers not understanding military culture. Employed veterans are more likely to feel valued, while unemployed veterans are more likely to believe their experience is not respected nor understood by employers.
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Conclusion
Charlotte Bridge home has a moral obligation to provide the best quality care to those who have put their lives on the line to defend us.
Just as planes and tanks and guns are a cost of war, so is taking care of the men and women who we sent off to fight the war.
Charlotte Bridge home will operate an innovative outreach program to provide pre-deployment and post-deployment support to family members and service members.
By shining a light on veterans’ transition experience, this project serves as a source of actionable information for the range of programs—military, nonprofit and private sector—that support the goal of putting veterans on the path to employment, and ensuring that as a nation we continue to benefit from all that service members have to offer in their new careers.
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References
Coll, J. E. (2013). Handbook of military social work. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Dick, G. L. (2014). Social work practice with veterans. Washington, DC: NASW Press.
Dick, G. L. (2017). Social work practice with veterans. Washington, DC: NASW Press.
Ife, J. W. (2018). Human rights and social work towards rights-based practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
John, J. (2017). War veterans; party policies on legislation in the interest of ex-soldiers. Columbus, Ohio?: Publisher not identified.
Miley, K. K. (2017). Generalist social work practice: an empowering approach. Boston: Prentice Hall.
