Milestone Three

Overview

This assignment will allow you to complete the Program Accountability and Recommendations sections of your final project.

Directions

In this milestone, you will examine program metrics for accountability and develop feasible and politically tenable recommendations for process improvements. Support your claims with your research and cite your sources according to APA style.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

1. Program Accountability: In this section, you will appraise the program’s metrics for accountability, including funding. You should address the following:
   1. Monitoring: Assess how the program's effectiveness is monitored. For example, compliance, auditing, or accounting strategies could be used to establish factual claims about the program’s performance.
   2. Funding: Assess the funding contribution(s) from federal, state, or local governments. Consider questions such as these in your response:
      1. What type of funding is used?
      2. Is the funding distribution equitable?
      3. Does the program receive sufficient and appropriate funding?
   3. Strategies: Determine appropriate accountability strategies for the program based on your assessment of how the program is monitored and funded. How can gaps in funding or accountability be addressed?
2. Recommendations: In this section, you will develop feasible and politically tenable recommendations for process improvements. You should address the following:
   1. Evaluation: Evaluate the effectiveness of the program. In your response, you should consider the program outcomes you described. Is the program achieving what it intended?
   2. Process Improvements: Recommend feasible and politically tenable process improvements based on your evaluation of the program's effectiveness. Justify your recommendations.
   3. Funding Strategies: Suggest strategies for funding these process improvement recommendations (particularly if you recommend a course of action beyond the current program's funding scope). Explain your funding strategy suggestions.
   4. Measurement: Explain how your process improvement recommendations will be measured and monitored. In other words, how will you assess the effectiveness of the recommendations?

What to Submit

Submit your draft sections as a 6- to 8-page Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.