1.
Describe
what your
vision is for yourself as you move toward your goals of becoming a
professional clinical mental health counselor. Please address: professional goals, the type
of services you see yourself providing, what are your credentialing and licensure goals
and where ethics and multiculturalism fit into your future professional goals.
2. Based on this class and on your own life experiences, what does this community need and
how do you intend to respond to these needs?
3. What do you intend to do now to implement this
plan?
4. What do you perceive to be possible loopholes to your plan and how do you intend to be proactive?
5. Identify one community based agency that might assist you in working toward this
vision/plan. Identify how you could get involved with that agency now
–
do they have a volunteer program, community action group, etc. If you are unable to find an agency in this area, are you aware of an agency/resources in another location that would meet this need?
6. What symbol, song or quote best represents your professional vision/potential professional journey?
7. What do you want your future clients to say about you?
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Added on 08.12.2015 13:56
I live in New Orleans, so you can base the paper on the sources for this city. Also, I would like to work with eating disorders. Please expand on that.
The paper should include multiculturalism FOR NEW ORLEANS please. I don”t need any basic information regarding mental health profession. Just answers to specific questions.

Part 1.

Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft you will complete next week.

 

Part 2. 1600 Words

A regional bank has decided to open an office overseas for serving those businesses that are expanding internationally. Choose a country with a large financial center that you believe would be helpful to your customer base.

• • What are the cultural, ethnic, social, and educational characteristics?
• Describe the political and legal systems.
• How much does the government intervene in the private sector?
  • How will that affect your financial institution?
• What type of economic system does it have?
  • What is the history of that economic system?
• How is the country involved in international trade?
  • How does the government get involved in trade issues?
  • Will that help or hurt your financial institution?
• Will your presence in this country be helpful in your attempts to invest in other developing countries?
• Is this country involved in any regional integration efforts? How so?
• Why did you choose this location for your bank?
• As a manager, what would be your overall assessment about whether you want to pursue opening an office there?
  • Are the financial risks worth taking?
  • Will it be beneficial to all of the stakeholders?

In pursuing this, what type of presence do you think would be best suited to your objectives?

• How should the plant be financed?
• Should they hedge foreign exchange or something else? Explain.
• Identify 3 foreign exchange instruments you would recommend?
• What, if any, government regulations that would affect earnings and cash flow should they be aware of?
• Include the need to be aware of inflation and interest rates and how it affects exchange rates.

This is a two part written project that will focus on the marketing aspects of your start up business. Please submit as one written assignment.

Part 1:

In three to four pages, address the following areas:

Part 2:

In five to six pages, address the following areas:

You should have used the same company for all five of Jack Welch’s Five Slides. To construct the practicum’s Assessment Slides:

1) Make any necessary changes in the first four Jack Welch Slides.

2) Add the content for the fifth slide.

3) Present them in one video.

What’s Your Winning Move?

• What can you do to change the playing field—is it an acquisition, a new product, globalization?
• What can you do to make customers stick to you more than ever before and more than to anyone else?

Practicum Presentation

• Submit the Practicum Presentation video file.

 

Develop a 12- to14-page marketing plan (not including the title and reference pages, charts and/or graphs) for any product of your choice. Your marketing plan must:

• Analyze the specific marketplace situation in detail, including organizational strengths, weaknesses, environmental opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis).
• Develop an organizational mission statement, and forecast performance goals using your situational analysis.
• Design a marketing strategy based upon your objectives.
• Create an appropriate integrated marketing mix, which will include your ability to effectively appeal to the specific market segments you will be targeting.
• Develop a written summary and specific recommendations for the implementation of your plan.

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

• Must be 12 to 14 double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and reference pages, charts and/or graphs) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Students name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
• Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
• Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
• Must use at least four scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library, in addition to the text.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center

Employers have been coming up with innovative employee rewards to boost morale and acknowledge employee needs for creativity and personal goal accomplishment. Some of the latest potential employee rewards include using the Internet at work for personal reasons such as shopping, communicating with friends, or personal finances; bringing a pet to work; instituting a controlled napping policy, and the sports and office betting pools.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1. Determine how innovations in employee benefits can improve the overall competitive compensation strategy of the organization.
2. Explain how innovative benefits could be tied to specific jobs.
3. Critique the effectiveness of equity-based rewards systems versus those with more creative approaches.
4. Discuss the key elements of integrating innovation into a traditional total rewards program.
5. Recommend a process that optimizes an employee-based suggestion program to continually refresh the total rewards of the organization.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze an organization’s strategy and integrate pay-for-performance plans and total rewards into a compensation strategy that will motivate desired behavior and improve job performance.
• Explain a benefit plan as part of an overall competitive compensation strategy and the policies to administer the benefits.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in total rewards.
• Write clearly and concisely about total rewards using proper writing mechanics.

In this assignment, you will evaluate the research methodologies used in a particular study to apply the knowledge you have gained in the course. This will be your opportunity to explore a research study in depth and gain a stronger understanding of both conducting the research and also reporting the outcome of that research.

Tasks:

Read the following article from the Argosy University online library resources:

• Multicultural development in human services agencies: Challenges and solutions

Then, in a 5- to 6-page paper:

• Evaluate the research methodologies used. In your evaluation, make sure that you:
  • Examine the theoretical framework used in the study and assess its appropriateness for the selected research question.
  • Evaluate the way in which the literature review portion of the article informed and supported the research.
  • Analyze the instruments used in data collection and discuss how they were an appropriate selection to achieve the desired outcomes.
  • Evaluate the results and conclusions drawn and discuss the extent to which they supported the research question.
  • Evaluate the ethical considerations that the researchers kept in mind regarding multicultural diversity in data collection, analysis, and interpretation.

• Review the Meyer article, “Nursing Services Delivery Theory: An Open System Approach,” in this week’s Learning Resources. Focus especially on the information presented in Table 1 (p. 2831) and Figure 2 (p. 2833).
• Reflect on your organization or one with which you are familiar. Within a particular department or unit in this organization, identify a problem the staff is encountering.
• Using Table 1 in the Meyer article as a guide, analyze the department or unit, identifying inputs, throughput, output, cycles of events, and negative feedback. Consider whether the problem you have selected relates to input, throughput, output, cycles of events, and/or negative feedback.
• Think about how you could address the problem: Consider what a desired outcome would be, then formulate related goals and objectives, and translate those goals into policies and procedures.
• Research professional standards that are pertinent to your identified problem.
• Reflect on the organization’s mission statement and values. In addition, consider how addressing this problem would uphold the mission and values, while improving the organizational culture and climate. (Depending on the organization you have selected, you may have explored these in the Week 1 Discussion.)

To complete:

Write a 3- to 5-page paper (page count does not include title and reference page) that addresses the following:

• Describe a department or unit within a health care organization using systems theory terminology. Include a description of inputs, throughput, output, cycles of events, and negative feedback.
• Describe the problem you identified within the department or unit using an open- systems approach, and state where the problem exists using the systems theory model (input, throughput, output, cycles of events, or negative feedback).
• Based on this information, explain how you would address the problem as follows:
  • Formulate a desired outcome.
  • Identify goals and objectives that would facilitate that outcome.
  • Translate those goals and objectives into policies and procedures for the department or unit.
  • Describe relevant professional standards.
• Explain how your proposed resolution to the problem would uphold the organization’s mission and values and improve the culture and climate.

Compare and contrast homophobia and heterosexism. Provide detailed examples. List and discuss the five factors that characterize minority groups and their relations with dominant groups in society. Provide examples. Answer these questions, 2 pages for each and provide examples from the book, “Our Social World” Condensed version. References Ballantine, J., & Roberts, K. (2010). Our social world: Condensed version (Condensed version. ed.). Los Angeles, Calif.: SAGE/Pine Forge Press This is the reference of the book. Only use 2 quotes from the book for each question. This is due Thursday at 1