If you have not already done so, read the course project overview and all of the project assignments and their scoring guides.

For this discussion, choose and share a potential topic of interest for your course project, based on the following prompt: Describe a problem that requires human services intervention, in which organizations representing the for-profit, nonprofit, and government sectors participate in a collaborative effort to benefit a selected community or population. This can be a real past event, current situation, or a hypothetical case (such as a natural disaster, a community crisis situation, or a significant need identified for a community). Explain the rationale behind your selection of this particular problem.

A Collaborative Case Study Presentation

The culminating course project is a full case study presentation, as it would be presented to a donor organization or another entity, to secure funding, partnership, or support for a project to resolve a human services problem. You will apply theories and principles of collaborative governance, negotiation, mediation, and communication to the process of intersector collaboration based on the example of a specific human services intervention. You will discuss how the integration of theories supports successful outcomes for collaboration among organizations. The final presentation should be a synthesis of the three previous assignments and result in a scholarly, professional presentation with audio.

Read each of the course project assignments as well as their scoring guides to develop a full understanding of what this project entails.

Understanding Community and Organizational Problems

Assignment Overview

In your work as a human services leader for an organization, you will often be called upon to make presentations to stakeholders, such as a board of directors, to secure funding or support, or propose partnerships. In any of those situations, you will want to be fully prepared with a well-researched statement of the problem, an analysis of the community affected, and identification of the key partners that can be engaged in finding a solution. Think about what you would be looking for as an audience member for this kind of presentation and what would make the message engaging and sticky.