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Building Capacity: A Cycle Of Change For A Non-Profit Clinical Service Organization, Sarah Drexler
Building Capacity: A Cycle Of Change For A Non-Profit Clinical Service Organization, Sarah Drexler
The Dissertation in Practice at Western University
Families of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) need clinical behavioural services. A lack of capacity within non-profit agencies results in children and families often waiting for long periods of time to receive services. This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) aims to address a Problem of Practice (POP), namely, a lack of capacity within a clinical service agency to provide sufficient behavioural support to the number of children with IDD in its service area. The OIP includes an examination of the organizational context, factors influencing wait times for service, and the organization’s ability to implement change. Multiple solutions to address …
Aligning International Curriculum Standards And Practices With National Quality Assurance Frameworks, Tina Annette Stephenson
Aligning International Curriculum Standards And Practices With National Quality Assurance Frameworks, Tina Annette Stephenson
The Dissertation in Practice at Western University
This Organizational Improvement Plan proposal will consider how the directors of our group of international schools can begin the work of aligning values, standards and practices to meet the needs of both the individual international schools and the nationalized quality assurance frameworks -- working with individual school principals in our home nation. The international school system provides alternatives to local and expatriate parents in an ever-increasing number of schools across the globe. As this number of international school increases, so too does the number of those schools which are required to align their international curriculum standards and practices with nationalized …