Family Service & Guidance Center Evaluation
Family Service & Guidance Center Program Evaluation
Angie Staiert
Friends University
Non-Profit Leadership
LEAD 304-Z1
Mr. Bobby Burcham
Abstract
Family Service and Guidance Center (FSGC) is a nonprofit organization that helps children deal with mental health illnesses and support the families involved in caring for those children. They have many programs that are designed to help children and families deal with mental health wellness in their families and have several successful ways they use their resources to do this. Over the years FSGC has evaluated the needs of the community and changed their programs and structure to meet those changing needs. I have included a logical model and outcome evaluation for the Youth Development …show more content…
3) They did this to make sure that all their families would be able to get the services they needed with their new Medicaid providers. Their process was internal and something they needed to do in order to keep clients. This shows that they are keeping up with current procedures within the State in order to keep seeing clients that may not be able to go to other organizations to get the help they need.
The last way that they showed their effectiveness was with the stakeholder approach. “FSGC served 12,027 children, adolescent and families from over 40 Kansas counties with direct services, outreach and education in 2013.” (Family Service & Guidance Center, 2013, p. 3) Showing how many stakeholders they serve each year and how many counties they are in shows that they are helping a lot of families. They give measurable numbers with this approach.
Recent Changes or Environmental …show more content…
As stated before their mission statement is “Family Service & Guidance Center provides quality behavioral healthcare for children and families.” (Family Service and Guidance Center, n.d.) This seems very general to me, our textbook states “the mission statement should convey the nonprofit’s essential purpose, approach, and values, distinguishing it from other organizations.” (Tschirhart & Bielefeld, 2012, p. 45) Per this definition I don’t think it’s a good mission statement as it doesn’t have the values, approach, nor does it distinguish itself from other organizations. I believe they could have a better statement that would allow them to show effectiveness within their evaluations and show that they do have values and approaches that are consistent with what they are providing to the
Angie Staiert
Friends University
Non-Profit Leadership
LEAD 304-Z1
Mr. Bobby Burcham
Abstract
Family Service and Guidance Center (FSGC) is a nonprofit organization that helps children deal with mental health illnesses and support the families involved in caring for those children. They have many programs that are designed to help children and families deal with mental health wellness in their families and have several successful ways they use their resources to do this. Over the years FSGC has evaluated the needs of the community and changed their programs and structure to meet those changing needs. I have included a logical model and outcome evaluation for the Youth Development …show more content…
3) They did this to make sure that all their families would be able to get the services they needed with their new Medicaid providers. Their process was internal and something they needed to do in order to keep clients. This shows that they are keeping up with current procedures within the State in order to keep seeing clients that may not be able to go to other organizations to get the help they need.
The last way that they showed their effectiveness was with the stakeholder approach. “FSGC served 12,027 children, adolescent and families from over 40 Kansas counties with direct services, outreach and education in 2013.” (Family Service & Guidance Center, 2013, p. 3) Showing how many stakeholders they serve each year and how many counties they are in shows that they are helping a lot of families. They give measurable numbers with this approach.
Recent Changes or Environmental …show more content…
As stated before their mission statement is “Family Service & Guidance Center provides quality behavioral healthcare for children and families.” (Family Service and Guidance Center, n.d.) This seems very general to me, our textbook states “the mission statement should convey the nonprofit’s essential purpose, approach, and values, distinguishing it from other organizations.” (Tschirhart & Bielefeld, 2012, p. 45) Per this definition I don’t think it’s a good mission statement as it doesn’t have the values, approach, nor does it distinguish itself from other organizations. I believe they could have a better statement that would allow them to show effectiveness within their evaluations and show that they do have values and approaches that are consistent with what they are providing to the