The document outlines an evaluation proposal for a program within the Maryland Department of Human Services Child Protective Services division. The proposal would evaluate the effectiveness of CPS in achieving its goals of protecting children from abuse and neglect. It would use an outcome evaluation research design involving quantitative data collection and analysis methods to assess the impact of CPS on variables like reducing abuse rates. Key ethical considerations around working with vulnerable populations and addressing diversity would also be discussed. The proposal aims to provide implications for practice, policy, and further research on child welfare services.

1. Evaluation Proposal Outline
1. Abstract
2. Table of Contents
3.
Introduction to Agency
(you can select your internship or job; however, you must be
working in the social service-related field)
a. State the agency and department you are assigned to
: Maryland Department of Human Services, Child Protective
Services
b.
Mission & Vision (Summarize and properly cite)
- https://dhs.maryland.gov/about-dhs/
i.
Vision
: We envision a Maryland where people independently support
themselves and their families and where individuals are safe
from abuse and neglect.
ii.
Mission
: We will aggressively pursue opportunities to assist people in
economic need, provide prevention services, and protect
vulnerable children and adults.
iii. Our Mission is based on the following principles:
1. Work is indispensable for achieving independence.

2. 2. Partnerships and alliances with business and the community
are critical to our customers’ ability to achieve and maintain
independence.
3. Families should be the first resource for the emotional and
financial support of their children and other family members.
4. Assistance is provided to people while honoring individual
and group differences.
5. Empowerment is essential to the provision of human services.
c.
Goals and objectives
- https://dhs.maryland.gov/child-protective-services/
i. Protect children and assist parents or caretakers in providing
proper care and attention to children
ii. Remedy and decrease the risk of continuing abuse and
neglect
iii. Provide an alternate plan of care for children when parents
or caretakers are unable to prove proper and safe care for them;
iv. While CPS works to provide services and interventions to
families, it is not designed to address all issues that contribute
to a family’s difficulties or to address the full range of parent-
child problems.
v. Our main focus is on protecting children from abuse and
neglect and to engage families in the process of helping to
safely parent their children. Child protection is a community
responsibility and communities must respond strategically to
children who are in danger of abuse or neglect working with
families at the first sign of a problem and resources should be

3. coordinated through combined efforts. The community has an
obligation to ensure that the required services are available for
prevention, intervention, and treatment of child abuse and
neglect.
d.
Your role and duties
Assists customers in identifying, developing and using their
potential capabilities and community resources to resolve
social, health, emotional, behavioral and economic problems;
Interviews customers to obtain information needed to determine
eligibility for social services;
Assesses case situations to make recommendations to supervisor
regarding individualized plans of service;
Provides limited counseling and crisis intervention services to
customers regarding personal, economic and social problems;
Establishes and maintains personal contact with other social
services agencies and community resources to facilitate the
referral of individual customers;
Checks public records, such as birth records, for data and to
verify information such as income, kinship and residence;
Prepares and manages case records and reports concerning
information secured and services rendered; Testifies in legal
proceedings regarding family service cases;
Develops and implements a personalized training plan to
maintain and upgrade knowledge and skills related to the
delivery of direct services;

4. May testify in court as an expert witness;
May provide on-call coverage; May participate in the
investigation of suspected child or adult abuse or neglect;
May make recommendations to place children in foster and
adoptive homes;
May participate in the initial investigation of fatalities that
result from suspected abuse or neglect;
Performs other related duties.
4.
Background of Agency
a. State the specific program you are proposing to evaluate at
your agency or in your department Child Protective Services
b. Discuss the present capacity or structure in conducting
evaluations at your agency
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb
and CFSP.Five Year Plan.2015-2019 (attached)
c. Discuss the history of evaluations at your agency. Have they
conducted any evaluations in the past? If yes, what types?
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb
and CFSP.Five Year Plan.2015-2019 (attached)
5.
Program Description
(Describe the program (s) your agency offers)

5. a. Nature of the problem it is intended to address
b. Need for services
c. Purpose of the program
i. Specific goals and objectives
ii. Conceptualization
1. framework
iii. Operationalization
1. Activities/intervention
d. Target population
i. Size
ii. Demographics
iii. Community
e. Stakeholders
i. Administrators
ii. Staff
iii. Funders
6. Logic Model
7. Literature Review (5 peer-reviewed reference minimum -
APA)

6. a. The empirical articles must be related to the program that you
are proposing to evaluate (ex. If you plan to examine the
effectiveness of a high school drop-out program, then your
literature review should be related to the effectiveness of high
school drop-out programs)
8. Methodology (you must propose an outcome evaluation)
a. Evaluation Approach/Model
b. Research Design
i. Research/Evaluation Questions
ii. Hypothesis
iii. Conceptualization of variables
iv. Operationalization of variables
v. Sample
c. Data Collection Technique
i. Measures
ii. Setting
iii. Human subject protection & ethical guidelines
d. Data Analysis Technique
e. Data reporting
9. Ethical Concerns

7. a. What are the ethical issues of your proposed research
b. How does you proposed research address diversity (race,
class, gender, sex, religion, etc.)
10. Strengths & Limitations of your proposed study
11. Implications
a. Practice
b. Policy
c. research
12. Conclusion
13. References
14. Appendix