Jaciana Wyman 2/22/18 SOCW347 1 Organizational Analysis: “ Change Happens ” A. Introduction 1. Identify the type of organization that you are about to model as a social system. Ecological systems theory 2. Provide brief background information about this organization. Change Happens was formerly known as Families Under Urban & Social Attack (FUUSA) it is a 501(c)(3), non-profit, community-based organization. Originally founded in 1989 by Rev. Leslies Smith as outpatient alcohol and drugs prevention and treatment program. Rev. Leslies Smith wanted to expand his help he not only wanted to help addicts but also serve the community. Change Happens has since grown from 1 program to over 18 programs. Located in the heart of the third ward in Houston Texas the organization focus on helping the community overcome the educational and social obstacles surrounding poor and working poor households(changehappenstx.org,2005). 3. Which organizational theory is most applicable? Discuss why you selected this theory? Weber’s bureaucratic was the most applicable organization theory for me to use. This organization like many has a administration that is responsible for maintaining coordinative activities of the members. Understanding their organization hierarchy is pyramids of officials within the large organization corresponding to different functions. B. Boundary 1. Discuss what a boundary is and its role within the social system perspective A boundary connects and divides the system within the environment. 2. Identify your organization’s boundary and reasons why you believe this is a boundary. The organization provides services for the community but in order for you to be able to get any services from Change Happens you have a state identification, driver licenses, or school id. Being that most of the clients are live poverty they may not have any form of identification I believe this may be one boundary that exists. 3. Identify and discuss specific boundary maintenance behaviors that support the boundary you have identified in this organization. One-way boundary maintenance takes place when you first enter the office you can’t gone any further then the front with presenting you identification to the person who works behind the desk then after you have been properly signed in she will let proceed. C. Suprasystem 1. Discuss what a suprasystem is and its role within the social system perspective. Suprasystem is the environment that exist outside the agency. 2. Identify a minimum of two interactions that are derived from your organization’s suprasystem. Yakes High School and Cueny Homes provide Change Happens with clients that need their serveries. 3. Discuss how these two interactions 1) mutually determinative (cause and effect) and 2) relates to the larger environment. Yakes High School provides young from the community that use the services that Change Happens provides. The Third ward area community also has provided many of the clien.

1. Jaciana Wyman
2/22/18
SOCW347 1
Organizational Analysis: “ Change Happens ”
A. Introduction
1. Identify the type of organization that you are about to model
as a social system. Ecological systems theory
2. Provide brief background information about this
organization. Change Happens was formerly known as Families
Under Urban & Social Attack (FUUSA) it is a 501(c)(3), non-
profit, community-based organization. Originally founded in
1989 by Rev. Leslies Smith as outpatient alcohol and drugs
prevention and treatment program. Rev. Leslies Smith wanted to
expand his help he not only wanted to help addicts but also
serve the community. Change Happens has since grown from 1
program to over 18 programs. Located in the heart of the third
ward in Houston Texas the organization focus on helping the
community overcome the educational and social obstacles
surrounding poor and working poor
households(changehappenstx.org,2005).
3. Which organizational theory is most applicable? Discuss why
you selected this theory? Weber’s bureaucratic was the most
applicable organization theory for me to use. This organization
like many has a administration that is responsible for
maintaining coordinative activities of the members.
Understanding their organization hierarchy is pyramids of
officials within the large organization corresponding to
different functions.
B. Boundary
1. Discuss what a boundary is and its role within the social
system perspective A boundary connects and divides the system
within the environment.
2. Identify your organization’s boundary and reasons why you

2. believe this is a boundary. The organization provides services
for the community but in order for you to be able to get any
services from Change Happens you have a state identification,
driver licenses, or school id. Being that most of the clients are
live poverty they may not have any form of identification I
believe this may be one boundary that exists.
3. Identify and discuss specific boundary maintenance behaviors
that support the boundary you have identified in this
organization. One-way boundary maintenance takes place when
you first enter the office you can’t gone any further then the
front with presenting you identification to the person who works
behind the desk then after you have been properly signed in she
will let proceed.
C. Suprasystem
1. Discuss what a suprasystem is and its role within the social
system perspective. Suprasystem is the environment that exist
outside the agency.
2. Identify a minimum of two interactions that are derived from
your organization’s suprasystem. Yakes High School and Cueny
Homes provide Change Happens with clients that need their
serveries.
3. Discuss how these two interactions 1) mutually determinative
(cause and effect) and 2) relates to the larger environment.
Yakes High School provides young from the community that use
the services that Change Happens provides. The Third ward area
community also has provided many of the clients. Like Cuney
Homes project they have many adults and kids who use the
programs and services that Change Happens provides.
4. Are the interactions between your organization and its
suprasystem cooperative or conflictual? Discuss your selection
and why you believe this to be the case. I believe this
cooperative interaction between the community and Changes
Happens, because Change Happens sets out to better the people
and restore the community.
D. Interface
1. Discuss what an interface is and its role within the social

3. system perspective. Interface is a shared boundary that
between two systems.
2. Identify one interface between your organization and one of
the interactions you identified in the suprasystem in Section C
(2).
3. Discuss what turbulence exists at the interface that you
identified in D (2) and why it is turbulent.
4. Does the interface allow or filter communication? Why?
E. Task Input
1. Discuss what task input is and its role within the social
systems perspective. Task input are results from the actives
within a system.
2. Identify your organization’s task signal input. Explain how
your selection fits the role of being a signal input.
3. Identify your organization’s task maintenance input(s).
Explain how your selection(s) fit the role of being a task
maintenance input(s).
F. Proposed Task Output
1. Discuss what proposed task output is and how it relates to the
social systems perspective. Proposed task output is a goal set
of a social system.
2. What conditions within the suprasystem initially led to a need
for this organization? In the Houston Third ward community
many of the people are living below poverty level. Reports from
The City of Houston department of Health and Human services
states that nearly half (47%) of the population in Greater Third
Ward lived below the poverty level in 1999. Seventy-two
percent of all residents in the super neighborhood had incomes
less than twice the poverty level. Of those living below the
poverty level, 37% were children under 18 years of age; 10%
were adults 65 and older.
3. How was this organization meant to address/alter the
conditions identified in F (2)?
a. Mission. To help restore and empower the people in the
Houston Third Ward community.
a.1. What is your organization’s current mission? Change

4. Happens mission is to help empower families to help themselves
b. Goals Change Happens aims to restore whatever resources
that are most scarcest in the community and provide educational
and empowerment to the people in the community.
b.1. Identify one task goal your organization seeks to achieve.
Educate and provide services in the community to help sustain
financial stability and increase economic growth.
b.1.a. What is your organization’s proposed task objective for
achieving this goal? Change happens provide programs that
give positive pathways that help reduce the problem or
situations in people life.
b.1.b. What day-to-day activities (a minimum of 2) does your
organization state they will engage in to meet its goal?
Everyday Change Happens has after school programs for the
youth in the community that not only provides educational help
that also provide snacks and mentoring. Also the doors are
always open to adults who may come in and need help either
with looking for services or just needed a person to talk to.
b.2 Identify one task maintenance goal your organization seeks
to achieve.
b.2.a. What is your organization’s proposed objective for
achieving the maintenance goal?
b.2.b. What activities (a minimum of 2) does your organization
propose engaging in to achieve its maintenance goal?
G. Actual Task Output1. Discuss what actual task output is
within the social systems perspective and how it differs from
proposed task output.
a. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) b.1.a
what is the actual task output?
b. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) b.2.a
what is the actual task output?
2. Discuss what system waste is within the social systems
perspective and how it relates to actual task output.
a. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) b.1.a
what is the waste?
b. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) b.2.a

5. what is the waste?
H. Conversion Operations
1. Structure
a. Discuss what ‘organizational structure’ is and why it is
important in formal organizations.
b. Describe your organization’s organizational structure (i.e.
bottom-up; top-down; divisions of labor; power delegations).
**Be sure to attach an organizational chart that you create
yourself to the end of your paper.
c. Identify and explain how parts of the organizational structure
in section (H1) b utilize their resources to meet the goals
discussed in sections (F3) b.1 and (F3) b.2.
2. Functions
a. Discuss what a function is within the social systems
perspective and why it is important in formal organizations.
b. Identify and describe what functions exist in your
organization based on the structure you identified in (H1) b.
c. What are the various types of technology and/or practice
modalities used in your organization?
3. Feedback
a. Discuss what feedback is and its overall utility for formal
organizations.
b. Provide examples of feedback occurring in your organization
(that would impact the objectives you have identified in
sections (F3) b.1.a and (F3) b.2.a.
c. Discuss and explain to what extent the feedback is positive,
negative or both.
d. In what ways should the proposed objectives in sections (F3)
b.1.a) and (F3) b.2.a) be modified based on the feedback you
identified in 3b?
e. Discuss how a social work practitioner could potentially
utilize the information discussed and resultant feedback to
enhance organizational/employee performance.

6. W6 Assignment "Researched Argument Rough Draft"
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W6 Assignment "Researched Argument Rough Draft"
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EN102 English Composition
W6 Assignment "Researched Argument Rough Draft"
Name
University
Does having a college degree effect one’s future positively?
Might high school students transmute learning to add to the
college experience overall? Are there steps a high school
student might consider before advancing to college? The value
of having a college education is tremendous and the benefits are
plentiful, ranging from financial to cultural. Also, common and
unexpected. As we advance in this discussion I will present to

7. you several justifications supporting higher education.
Chief Deputy Director Jeff McGuire, McGuire who served
as deputy director at the Board of Equalization since 2010,
expresses how many high school students are uncertain the
value of a secondary education might bring. He discusses this in
his article titled: “Importance of College Education. Why it is
important to go to college?” (2016) He quotes they question
why should they should go to college? (McGuire 2016)
Having transitioned from a manufacturing-based economy to
one based on knowledge, you can see that within the United
States a college education today might be considered equal to a
high school education forty years ago. (McGuire 2016) College
degrees are open doors to countless options and better
opportunity. In today’s job market, many employers require that
future hires have obtained a college degree.
Within the article McGuire addresses the irreplaceable
experience of a post-secondary education, as students are
provided opportunity to read books and sit in on lectures from
top experts within their field of studies. (McGuire 2016) The
college lifestyle, challenges students to assess, explore and
scrutinize newly founded ideas; allowing for development and
growth. This provides college graduates a strong and
competitive edge in securing a job. These points establish the
positive benefits of furthering ones education and securing a
competitive edge for today’s job market.
The article “4 Reasons Why a College Education is Necessary
These Days.” (Beard 2015) it is mentioned by the author that
“Many people are starting to question whether college is really
worth the money or time.” (Beard 2015) Following this, the
author elucidates that college graduates in general, have higher
earnings compared to high school graduates. As per the Los
Angeles Times, those having successfully obtained a bachelor’s
degree earn 84% more compared to high school graduates.
Therefore, pursuing a college might secure a monetary
advantage over simply maintaining a high school diploma.
Chio Flores, Director, Office of Financial Aid &

8. Scholarships, Washington State University states thoughts on
opening opportunities. She stated: “You might think college is
just high school continued, But it’s not.” (Flores 2016) She
continues with the importance of gaining “new knowledge,
skills, and experience knowledge” (Flores 2016) and that it
could add long-term value relating careers and employment
opportunities. Flores expresses the value of investing in
yourself and how you become aware of this added benefit while
in to college. Many high schools just familiarize lessons to
students, whether intentional or not. Students become aware of
how different teaching methods are in college, within the first
few months of beginning their college experience. In college,
students are required read several chapters ahead of class, as the
scope of the next lesson may cover several topics. Many
students adjust by amplifying their review time, therefore
limiting their social life allowing more time for their studies.
As students’ progress, they gain momentum, discover a study
rhythm and have developed better time-management
Independents follows, when students begin managing time
according to their individual capabilities. It becomes apparent,
they learn at a pace which varies from their peers, and that the
relaxed studying methods they’ve familiarized themselves with
in high school no longer applies in college. Evaluating the best
time to study is difficult and students have to plan their
schedules to fit in reviews in addition possibly having to
maintain a part-time job and social-life. (Grace 2016)
Oiyush Manguikiya, a Managing Partner at 99MediaLab | at
Huffington Post Contributor http://huff.to/AcerPiyush and Co-
Founder at Educare Lab, points out a negative. Here the author
establishes the daunting problem of student loan debts. As per
the White House, approximately 70% of students awarded a
bachelor’s degree graduate with college debt. This might lead to
tremendous consequences for our economy. (Berman 2016) $1.2
trillion in student loan debt prevent average Americans from
making high dollar purchases which attribute to economic
growth, such as homes and vehicles. Additionally, it could stunt

9. ability for a comfortable retirement financially. (Berman 2016)
Those who do not pursue a college education are more likely to
remain unemployed, thus causing financial strain on society.
Yet, having a college degree is of great value. One way to
reduce the financial strain could be for students might be to
reside with their parents. Additionally, they could make an
effort to discuss with them assistance with the loan repayment.
This could be of great benefit to any student.
To summarize, the added benefits of earning a college
degree are countless. They might make effect your future by
means of irreplaceable experiences, advanced education, and
expert advice. It provides a valuable and competitive edge in
today’s workforce. Seeking a secondary education secures a
successful future and adds value to yourself. Generating an
income immediately after completed high school may be
appealing for many. Some might be reluctant to seek a college
degree because of the continuously rising cost of tuition. While
it is true that higher education can be costly, a college
education has become vital in terms of earning potential and
career advancement.
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Tiffany Hsu, August 5, 2011, Writer for the Los Angeles Times,

10. article - College graduates earn 84% more than high school
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University (iBUC). Article- How College Can Make You More
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