The document describes the "Super Kids" program which provides services to children and youth with special needs and disabilities. The target population includes those with cognitive impairments, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, or developmental disabilities. The program's mission is to promote inclusion and equal opportunities. Services include counseling, therapy, after school activities, and employment assistance. The program applies an open systems theory and uses an information system to track client progress and outcomes.

1. Martina Stanchi
HSV405
"Super Kids"

2. Target population
The target population is children and youth with special needs and disabilities. Children with special
needs have been born with a syndrome, terminal illness, cognitive impairment, or psychiatric
problems. They may have food allergies, anxiety disorders, or learning disabilities. Also, they may have
physical disabilities as well as developmental disabilities. A child with special needs has been
determined to require special attention and specific necessities that other children don't.
The program doesn't serve a large population, since the staff is small, and the services are specific and
personalized.

3. Mission and goals
"Super Kids" is a non-profit program that promotes and protects the rights of children and youth with
special needs and disabilities. It offers services to ensure their full inclusion and participation in the
community and equal opportunities for their personal and professional fulfillment.
Children and youth with special needs and disabilities are special and unique, and the program wants to
empower them and increase awareness and knowledge within the community.
The focus is on them as individuals to evaluate, and on their families.

4. Services
• Support group for families;
• Counseling and therapy one-on-one;
• After school activities;
• Group therapy;
• Group activities;
• Employment and career services.

5. Environmental factors
There are environmental factors that impact the target population and the community.
• Political factors are policies implemented by the government, financial and social accommodations,
and trends such as social responsibility and accountability for one another.
• Economic factors are related to economic downturns and limited public sector resources and growth.
The program needs to be ready to adapt to economic ups and downs and support the population.
• Social factors are related to cultural diversity and cultural competence. Also, our society requires to
involve everybody, so it's important to find ways to actively involve everybody in the community.
• Technological factors are related to how the program can get the desired outcomes. So, the program
needs to plan on both short-term and long-term models to make a positive change now and then
make it last.

6. Culture and diversity
One of the goals of the program is to actively support the full inclusion and participation of children and
youth with special needs and disabilities in the community.
One of the core values is that everybody is special and unique the way he or she is. It's important to
enhance diversity and takes the best from it. The program offers services to people of all cultures, races,
genders, religions, and beliefs. I strongly believe that diversity and differences can enrich the individuals
and the community as a whole.

7. Organizational Theory and Design
Program features:
• Innovative
• Original
• Flexible
• Adaptive
Main focuses on:
• Human relations
• Positive interactions
and environment
• Team-work
• Effective communication
and leadership

8. Open Systems Theory
The program applies the Open Systems Theory. This theory acknowledges the presence of internal and
external factors that affect the program and its performance. We live in an environment that influences
us as much as we influence it. It's a two ways interaction with the environment, and this theory explains
that systems interact with each other. Also, professionals can feel part of a bigger network that can
serve the clients in a coordinated way.

9. Social Worker
2 Community
Coaches
Counselor Therapist
2 Managers

10. Line-Item Budget
Non-personnel costs
• Rent office (included wifi, furniture,
electricity) $1300 per month.
• Supplies (music stereo, papers, pens,
toys, tablets) $800 per month.
• Snacks, beverages, sweets $200 per
month.
• Renters insurance $250 (cover up to 100k
of damage).
Personnel costs
• 6 Human Services Workers (1 licensed
counselor, 1 licensed therapist,
2 community coaches, 1 licensed social
worker, 1 social worker aide with at least
BSW or BHS) $3800 per month.
• 2 Managers (MBA with/or Human
Services Background) $7000 per month.
• Business consultant (MBA with/or Human
Resources Background) $5800 per month.
• Medical insurance $220 per month per
staff member.
Annual Budget: $525.000

11. Information System
The program needs an effective information system to track progress, program implementation, and the accomplishment
of objectives. An information system aims to guide staff performance and measure and evaluate performance.
The data needed are:
• Clients' demographics and characteristics.
• Staff tasks.
• Nature of service provided and service delivery model.
• Clients' outcomes.
For every client served, I want to have:
• Profile with all the demographics and characteristics.
• The types and number of services provided.
• Short-term goals and long-term goals.
• Client's evaluation of the services.

12. Program Evaluation
The accomplishment of objectives can be measured with a checklist, a rating scale, and self-evaluation.
It's also important to see how everyone responds to feedback and analyze the development and
the change of every case along the way. As a human service program, it wants to change the quality of
life of the clients and the community as a whole.
Methods:
• Qualitative (questionnaires, checklists, rating scales to gather clients' thoughts, feedback, and
actual changes in their lives).
• Quantitative ( collecting data such as numbers, tests, analysis).
Then, I would determine the desired outcomes and assess the actual outcomes, and eventually
determine the gap between the two.
I would measure the results in terms of how the program impacted the clients' lives and their families,
how they were able to identify the desired career path and find a job, how clients worked on
themselves and how therapy and the other services impacted their lives.

13. Why "Super Kids"?
"Super Kids" acknowledges and enhances the unicity of every individual in the way he or she is. It
evaluates all children and youth and their differences. Our society labels and categorizes us but being
unique makes everyone special. We all deserve the same rights and opportunities. Those children
with special needs may be seen as different, weird, or weak only because they aren't like most
children. They may be marginalized and left out, but their differences are their strengths.
"Super Kids" wants to make a change in these children's lives and spread awareness and knowledge
within the community about their conditions.