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Example Program

Program Goal: To develop an employee benefit/assistance program that addresses the needs of employees who are facing the issues of caring for the elderly parents and family members.

Contract 1

  • HD690 The Process of Human Development
  • Ind. Study - Survey of Parental Healthcare Concerns of Company ABC Employees
  • Ind. Study - The Aging Process, a course at U of M School of Nursing
  • Integration statement

Contract 2

  • Ind. Study - Research & Analysis of Existing Employee Benefit/Assistance Programs
  • Ind. Study - Weekend seminar in healthcare public policy, offered by the Humphrey Institute
  • HD671 Women's Self Esteem & Spirituality
  • Integration statement

Contract 3

  • HD695 Children of Addiction
  • Ind. Study - Design of the Senior Life Assist Employee Benefit Program
  • Integration statement

Contract 4

  • Practicum - combined
  • Internship at a senior Day Care Center and an Employee Assistance Walk-in Center
  • HD698 The Process of Writing a Position Paper
  • Integration statement
  • Position paper
  • Colloquium

Position Paper Abstract: The writer describes the rapidly changing dynamics of the American workplace, demographics of aging, the development of a work problems counseling service within an Employee Assistance Program and the outcome of an employee assistance program that simultaneously meets the needs of employees who are facing the issues of caring for elderly family members and the goals of cost-effectiveness.

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