Agency Memo – Draft

Purpose

For this assignment, you will complete the second installment (full draft) of your agency memo assignment (see Instruction section below).

Instructions

Complete ALL of the sections below by downloading and using this Memo Outline form. Note that sections 1, 2, and 3 should reflect your response to any requests for clarification and/or additional information made by the course instructor resulting from a review of your Week 3 agency memo assignment.

1. Population

Describe your target population and problem or issue experienced by members of that population (see examples below). In all likelihood, the information you will use to describe your target population will come from some government source such as the U.S. Children’s Bureau (Child Welfare Information Gateway), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), or the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), or some advocacy organization such as the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), or the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF). Be sure to include appropriate citations in your response.

Examples of target populations and presenting problems:

MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT – individuals with end-stage renal disease who have been on dialysis for a long time and who are experiencing severe depression (problem or issue here is severe depression).

2. Available interventions

Identify at least three and no more than five evidence-based interventions that could be used to address the problem or issue faced by members of your target population. Be sure to document the evidence for intervention use in your response.

3. Evidence for intervention use

Select two interventions from the group identified in the previous step that show particular promise for addressing the problem or issue experienced by members of your target population.

4. Recommendation for intervention

Select the intervention with the most promise for addressing the problem or issue experienced by members of your target population. This is the intervention that you will be recommending to your agency supervisor.

5. Single subject design

Describe the steps you would take to implement a single-subject study of the efficacy of using the selected intervention to address the problem or issue for a single member of your target population. Be sure to follow all of the procedures used in implementing a single-subject design, including the charting of results.