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[u02a1] Unit 2 Assignment 1
Identifying a Chosen Issue and Its Background
This is the first assignment in your Action Research Project. Before you begin, review the course project description and all of the project assignments at this time. Pay particular attention to the elements needed for the final project assignment in Unit 9. Also, examine the Identifying a Chosen Issue and Its Background Scoring Guide in order to familiarize yourself with the requirements for this assignment.In this assignment, you will build the content for the Introduction and Background for the Study sections of your final report.Assignment Instructions
Choose a human services issue that has been examined in a study for a program within a human services organization. You will use this issue as your focus throughout the course project. You may choose to base your project on a program and organization presented in the Riverbend City multimedia scenario for this course, or on an existing study that you must acquire on an issue in a real-world program at your current organization or the organization where you wish to do your future doctoral research.

If you choose to base your report on an issue presented in the Riverbend City scenario, you will need to work with the data and background from the Riverbend City scenario to develop an analysis of your own that would be equivalent to a study that has been conducted on the issue. You may find you need more information for the project than is provided in the scenario. If so, create realistic information, using your own local city or community population or data.

If you choose to base your report on a study that has been conducted on an issue at a real-world organization, you must be able to access sufficient information about the study, issue, program, and organization to complete all of the project activities.

Important: Consult your instructor before submitting this assignment if you wish to use a real-world issue and organization.

Once you have chosen the issue for your project, examine the associated study (or the Riverbend City multimedia scenario) thoroughly. Conduct research that addresses or relates to your chosen human services issue, including its history and previous work that has been conducted on it in the field. Apply theoretical frameworks and systems thinking to your chosen study (refer to your Unit 1 readings).Write a paper in which you provide a detailed profile on the issue and the study from your chosen organization. Include the following components:Introduction

• Briefly describe the human services organization and the program being examined.

Explain the focus of your chosen study.

State what the study is attempting to learn and understand about the issue.

List the specific research questions of this study. (Note: You will outline them further in the next section of the paper.)

Identify your overall goals for the issue, program, and organization. (Note: You will define them further in the next section.)

Background for the Study

Discuss research that addresses or relates to your chosen human services issue, including the following:

Explain what you have learned about the research.

State the history of the issue and how the history is relevant to the current state of the issue. 

• Describe the previous work that has been done on this issue.
• Analyze how other research relates to this issue.