As discussed before this programs objectives are SMART objectives. Objective #1 is an academic objective in accordance to the RFA: All children that go through the program will develop skills in the classroom to help them solve problems in a nonviolent way by June 30, 2020. Objective #2 is an epidemiological objective in accordance to the RFA: By June 30, 2020 there will be a 50% reduction in homicides among 14 to 18 years olds that live in the specified violent areas of Los Angeles.
These objective are in accordance with the Healthy People 2020 goals and objective related to injury prevention and violence in youth. The Healthy People 2012 goals and objectives for youth violence includes, the main goal of the initiative is to reduce violence and reduce its consequences. The objectives are outlined in Healthy People 2020 include objective IPV-29 which states a reduction on the rates of homicides by 5. 5 homicides per 100,000 population by the year 2020 (Healthy People 2020, 2014).
In addition, some of the outcomes that are expected of those that complete the program are, to build the child’s social competence and prosocial behavior. The other expected outcomes of the program is for parents, and teachers to track the incidence of negative, aggressive, or antisocial behaviors (National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices). Scope of Work See appendices for scope of work. Program Plan The Second Step program is an evidence based program. The program is based on the social cognitive period. It is divided by grades.
The first group is the elementary school age children from pre-school to 5th grade. The other group is the middle school aged children from grades 6th to 8th. For the five years that this grant will fund the intervention, the program will start with the grades pre-school to 5th grade and they will be the first start group to go through the program. The first group of fifth graders will go through the program in four years and the preschool aged children will be finishing third grade at the end of the five years (comittee for children).
A full year of lessons consists of four different units and the lessons are conducted twice a week by the health educator and the YEP coordinator will be in assistance to assist the health educator. They can alternate lessons. The following are the lessons for a student in the second grade. Unit 1 is called skills for Learning and it consists of four lessons. Lesson 1 is entitled Being Respectful. The students will learn about how to treat others and how being respectful makes the student a better learner.
The students will be able to identify respectful behavior and learn how to response in different scenarios. Lesson 2 is entitled Focusing Attention and Listening, the student will learn how to focus their attention and how listening will make them a better learner. The student will also learn how to focus their attention and how listening to others is showing respect. The student will be able to identify examples of focusing attention, identify examples of listening and will be able to apply focusing attention and listening skills through an interactive game.
Lesson 3 is entitled Using Self Talk. The student will learn what self talk means. The student will be able to identify through role playing scenarios, the classroom distractions and self – talk. Lesson 4 is entitled, Being Assertive and the the student will learn how to be assertive. They will be taught to be assertive is a respectful manner to be able to get what they want or need. The student will be able to demonstrate assertive communication skills in different role playing scenarios (comittee for children).
Unit 2 is called Empathy. Lesson 5 is entitled Identifying Feelings, the student will learn how to read and understand clues in body communication. They will be taught that everyone has a wide range of emotion. They will be able to identify various feelings, use physical, verbal and situational clues to be emphatic to what others are feeling. Lesson 6 is called Learning about more feelings and it will expand more on the previous lessons. The student will be able to identify how to label their own feelings through role playing activities.
Lesson 7 is entitled, Feeling Confident and the student will learn how to practice building their confidence and they will be taught to notice how others feel and be able to understand their feelings. They will be able to identify physical and and situational clues that indicate the feeling of confidence. They will be able to detect their feelings and other’s feelings as well. Lesson 8 is entitled Respecting Different Preferences the student will be taught how empathy helps the student notice that others may have a different preference from their own.
They will learn to respect others preferences. The student will be able to label their own preferences through an activity. Lesson 9 is called Showing Compassion and the student will be taught to notice and understand what others are feeling. The student will be able to identify situational cues through role playing as well as shoe compassion to others. Lesson 10 is entitled, Predicting Feeli and the students will be taught that accidents happen, and if an accident happened to move beyond the situation. In addition, the student will be taught to think about others during accidents and help them.
They will be able to identify other’s feelings through role playing and offer possible reasons for the actions of others (comittee for children). Unit 3 is called Emotion Management. The unit consists of five lessons where the children will learn various skills. Lesson 11 is called, Introducing emotion management, the students will be taught to manage their feeling in different situations. They will be able to identify through physical cues how to identify their feelings. Lessons 12 to 16 deal with being able to handle emotions like angers and how to react when they commit mistakes.
There are activities like role playing and assignments where they will be able to practice what they learned in the lesson and be able to fortify what they learned (comittee for children). Unit 4 is called Problem Solving. Lesson 17 to 22 will focus on various ways to deal with problems. Some of the name of the lessons are entitled, Taking Responsibility, Responding to Playground Exclusion, Playing Fairly on the Playground, and Reviewing Second Step Skills. They will be able to identify and recall various problem solving skills. They will generate solutions through the scenarios that will be presented to them in the form of role playing.
These lessons are tackle various of the risk factors that were mentioned earlier in the Background and Program which stated that prior history of violence is a risk factor for youth because if the youth has prior incidences with violence, the probabilities of the youth being violent again is a great possibility. Drug, tobacco and alcohol use is a serious risk factor to youth. It teaches the children of a a young age skills to be able to identify feeling and it teaches them problem solving skills. The lessons and activities of the program help the student be apart of his class through all the role playing.
It is tackling all the risk factors from a early age. The student would not have a prior history of violence because they learned from early problem solving skills that do not leave to violence. The second step program has been around since 1987 when it was first implemented. Over 70 countries have used the program world-wide. The program has taught the children skills that help them manage emotions, solve problem, avoid scary behavior that ultimately help them keep safe and reduce youth violence. Change starts in the classroom where children send a majority of the time in. The Los Angeles County of Public Health