Course Code: COMU 4100
Academic Year: 2024-2025
Coinciding with the era of accountability, contemporary program design and management in child and youth care reflects system pressures for well-supported program plans that, when implemented with fidelity, produce measured results demonstrating a clear return on investment. As system designers/operators/evaluators, child and youth care professionals are responsible for maintaining an up-to-date awareness of program management principles that they can apply in their professional practice and demand of the organizations to which they are a part. Students in this course work through key phases of program design, management and evaluation in child and youth care settings. Relying on an evidence-based orientation to program design, students learn rational program planning logic while attending to trauma-informed service delivery principles. Students are expected to routinely apply program management principles to program plans rooted in their project-based and internship field experiences. At the conclusion of this course students will be able to independently design and evaluate project logic models, program designs, work process maps, needs assessments, trauma-informed service delivery plans, and utilization-focused evaluation program activities.