Introduction & Assessment
The mission of the organization concerns ensuring that every refugee child is given the much-needed care and support. The organization promotes the vision of a world where no child is left without vital resources. The organization’s current values include empathy, integrity, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and prioritizing human life. The organization is structured functionally, with a shift toward a decentralized and team-based approach. Currently, the organization positions itself in the target community as a charity, also providing education on the issues at hand.
It is believed that internal factors such as the lack of cooperation among the staff members and mismanagement of information, and external ones such as legal changes and economic constraints, may affect the organization. To assess the impact of the organization, the iCAT tool will be used (Lewin et al., 2017).
Implementation Plan: Area, Goals, Timeline
The goals of the organization include providing refugee children with vital resources, ensuring that the rights of the target demographic are met, and advocating for these rights. Specifically, psychiatric treatment for refugee children as patients who have experienced severe trauma and are suffering from PTSD is seen as the main area of concern for the organization. A timeline of one year will be applied, with the milestones of setting the project, raising $200,00 for the necessary resources, and assisting at least 60% of affected children introduced.
Financial Impact & Resources
The organization seeks to raise $200,000 to reach out to and provide essential support to refugee children by using common digital platforms such as JustGiving and CharityNavigator (“Leadership & adaptability,” 2021).
Federal and State Regulations
Notably, ensuring that the plan in question complies with the current federal laws will be necessary. Specifically, the legal standards for refugee admission and resettlement will have to be taken into account since they will define the vulnerable population’s accessibility to the services provided by the organization, as well as the organization’s opportunity to reach out to them.
Ethical Challenges and Plans for Monitoring
Since the target population is represented by highly vulnerable children, it will be vital to ensure that their rights are properly protected and that they are completely safeguarded. Namely, potential ethical issues may involve exposure of refugee children to mistreatment as a result of a poor assessment of the organization’s employees. The described ethical concern can be avoided by enhancing the criteria for participation in the organization’s project.
Communication Plan: Communicating Change
The proposed change will be communicated to five key stakeholders, namely, the organization’s staff, the state authorities, the general audiences, the potential investors, and, most importantly, the vulnerable groups in question. For instance, the essential changes will be introduced to the target audience by charting a path toward the new goal, with the key milestones marked and explained extensively. Moreover, crucial values will be promoted to the staff members with the help of personal storytelling.
Keeping People Informed
Keeping people informed must be one of the key priorities for the organization to meet. The described goal will be achieved by introducing digital tools for maintaining connection, as well as using social networks as a powerful communication channel. While the latter will be used to address community members, the former will be utilized for staff members to communicate and transfer information within the organization. Most importantly, hotlines for notifying the organization about refugee children in need will be created.
Evaluation Strategy
Several milestones need to be established. Specifically, it will be vital for the organization to reach the goal of raising $200,000 to obtain vital resources and hire experts. In addition, the vulnerable population will need to be located and assessed. Afterward, strategies for helping children to cope with trauma will be developed. Finally, the assessment of the results will represent the fourth millstone.
To evaluate the progress to be made, an analysis of data on refugee children prior to the implementation of the project and after its completion will be conducted. Additionally, the children that will have been provided with the necessary services will be assessed, with their levels of PTSD compared (Rizzo & Shilling, 2017).
Stakeholder Satisfaction: Data Collection and Analysis
In turn, the levels of stakeholder satisfaction will have to be assessed with the help of a Likert-type scale in order to gauge the extent of perceived change. Namely, refugee children as the main stakeholders will be provided with Likert-type tests designed according to their age so that their answers can be as accurate as possible (Cornelius et al., 2018). For younger children, the rates of satisfaction (1-5) can be represented as images corresponding to each level of satisfaction, such as a discontent face of a character.
Conclusion
Addressing the needs of refugee children with severe PTSD requires proper care and support, which is why it is vital to provide them with the needed resources, particularly with the help of professional psychologists and counselors, as well as emotional support. The project developed by this organization is believed to assist refugee children in their need to overcome PTSD and live fulfilling life.
References
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Rizzo, A. S., & Shilling, R. (2017). Clinical virtual reality tools to advance the prevention, assessment, and treatment of PTSD. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 8(sup5), 1-20. Web.