Career Development Program Plan Project

Your site supervisor at RCCC wants your help to secure agency funding for a career development program to serve your clients and community. You will design a career development program plan to be reviewed by the administration at the RCCC for funding consideration.

In this assignment, you will identify a diverse population for whom you need to design a career development program.

The following are examples of populations that may be used:

Specific racial minorities or ethnic groups.

Individuals from specific religious affiliations.

• Different generations in the workforce.
• Veterans or military families.
• People with a particular disability or mental disorder.
• LGBTQI+ individuals.
• People who were previously incarcerated.
• At-risk youth.
• International refugees/asylees.
• People with limited English proficiency.
• Be creative and explore a population about which you know little and/or want to learn more. Your population can be situated in a hypothetical agency, school, or counseling center.
• Using the Career Development Program Plan Template [DOCX], address the following:

Define the diverse population, its characteristics, and its needs related to career development (one page).

Career Development Program Planning (one page).

Program goal: What is the overarching goal of your program?

Objectives: Write three measurable objectives to meet the needs of your population.

• Address how the program will be delivered (face-to-face or online/group or individual/frequency [how many sessions] and duration [number of days/weeks/etc.] of program).
• Define personnel and budget needs.

Describe how you will promote the career program to target relevant participants.

• Career Development Program Implementation (1–?2 pages).
• Detail the timeline for your program, session topics, and specific strategies/activities.
• Use? the table in the provided template to ensure all aspects of program implementation are met.
• Career Development Program Evaluation (0.5 page).
• How will you measure the effectiveness of your career development program?
• Process-oriented data: Include an objective assessment that clients would take to measure progress towards your identified objectives. Utilize information from Week 4 on Assessment. (School counseling learners – ASCA refers to this as perception data.)

Outcome data: Include how you will measure results on a larger, long-term scale