The assignment focuses on creating psychosocial workshop descriptions tailored for specific populations, including single mothers, caregivers, and individuals transitioning from incarceration. Each workshop description should reflect cultural sensitivity and address community needs, with a requirement for a two-page rationale supported by scholarly references. The final submission consists of a 6- to 8-page analysis paper due by April 13, 2016, and should follow APA format and ethical scholarship guidelines.

1. Assignment 2: (RA 2): Cultural Influences in Development
In this assignment, you will apply your knowledge of cultural
influences on development to create psychosocial workshops for
a specific population.
Tasks:
Scenario
:
As a human services administrator at a local agency, one of
your duties is to write descriptions of the agency's community
workshops to publish in the community's resource guide
delivered free of charge to all residents. These are the titles of
the workshops:
Single Moms
: A workshop for working mothers to help them balance work
and home
Community Living
: A workshop for those transitioning from incarceration to
society
Caregiver Parents
: A workshop for those taking care of aging parents, while also
raising a young family
Parenting Teens
: A workshop to enable parents to help their teenage children
transition to young adulthood
Your community largely comprises blue-collar workers, many
of whom are working on either visas or green cards; thus, there
are pockets of immigrant communities. Some of the workers are
those who were reintegrated into society after prolonged
incarceration (more than three years). The median age of the
area is thirty-five years, and multigenerational households are
commonplace. The public school system is underresourced, and
truancy is a big problem. Many students do not complete high
school, and standardized test scores are well below what is
federally mandated for funding.
Directions

2. :
For each of the four workshops, write a 100- to 200-word
description on the basis of the following:
Utilize what you have learned throughout the course to describe
specific services that each workshop will include.
Tailor each description to the community and the target
audience for the workshop.
Apply cultural and multicultural sensitivity within and across
all descriptions. Remember, a single mother may also read the
description for community living. Craft your descriptions to be
readable and sensitive to all.
Account for individual differences and environmental contexts
that will influence developmental changes.
Account for the role of culture in shaping attitudes, values, and
behaviors.
For each description, write a two-page rationale. Use at least
three references from scholarly sources to demonstrate how you
determined which services to offer for each workshop.
Submission Details:
By
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
, prepare a 6- to 8-page analysis paper. Your response should
rely upon at least three sources from professional literature.
This may include the Argosy University online library
resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles,
and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or
institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov). Write in a clear, concise, and
organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate
representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA format); and
use accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Save your paper in a Microsoft Word document with the name
M4_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc, and upload it to the
M4 Assignment 2 Dropbox
.
This RA 2 is worth 300 points and will be graded according to
the following rubric.