Macro Projects

Macro Projects

Community

Case Management

Addiction and Recovery

Ready-to-assign macro practice projects, organized by topic.

Access and Opportunity

Disaster Management

Law Enforcement

Health and Wellness

Conflict Resolution

Economic Development

Education and Training

Research and Analysis

Public Administration

Political Organization

Socioeconomic Factors

Courts, Corrections, and Law Enforcement

Projects focused on cross-sector collaboration, child welfare intersections, community crime reduction, and criminal justice policy reform.

Project Guides

Explore the Intersection of the Child Welfare System and the Criminal Justice System: Challenges and Opportunities for Supporting Incarcerated Parents: Analyze policies and systemic gaps to produce evidence-based recommendations for supporting incarcerated parents and their children. Develop a Community-based Program to Reduce Crime: Map crime patterns, analyze comparable programs, and produce a program manual with an implementation and evaluation guide. Develop an Advocacy Plan to Address an Unjust Criminal Justice Policy: Identify a policy requiring reform, research successful change efforts, and produce an advocacy plan with a progress measurement framework.

Education, Training and Development

Projects focused on customized training design, professional development planning, workforce strategy, and educational attainment improvement.

Project Guides

Develop a Customized Training Curriculum: Assess community learning needs, analyze comparable training, and produce a curriculum with SMART objectives and a continuous improvement plan. Identify Premier Professional Development Opportunities for Organizational Staff: Assess staff needs, evaluate premier programs, and produce a customized professional development plan aligned with organizational goals. Build a Community Workforce Development Plan: Analyze workforce needs, research comparable strategies, and produce a development plan with sustainability and evaluation measures. Produce an Educational Attainment Report with Suggestions for Improving Enrollment Outcomes: Profile the community, evaluate existing enrollment strategies, and produce an impact evaluation report with actionable recommendations.

Public Administration

Projects focused on program evaluation, policy development, and quality improvement in social service organizations.

Project Guides

Evaluate a Social Service Program and Provide Suggestions for Improvement: Define evaluation criteria, collect and analyze program data, and produce an improvement report with actionable recommendations and an implementation plan. Develop Policies and Procedures for Social Service Programs: Review existing programs, consult stakeholders, and produce a policy proposal with an advocacy plan and long-term impact evaluation framework. Develop Staff Training & Supervision Strategy: Assess training needs, design a tailored strategy, and produce an evaluation report with recommendations for sustaining staff professional development. Develop Quality Improvement Strategy & Highlight Ways to Measure Success: Analyze existing strategies, develop a data collection framework, and produce a quality improvement strategy with a success measurement framework.

Economic Development, Work and Occupations

Projects focused on career development, workplace child care, community entrepreneurship, and child welfare in informal labor contexts.

Project Guides

Develop a Career Toolkit: Assess community career needs, evaluate comparable toolkits, and produce a practical toolkit with an evaluation framework. Examine Workplace Implications for Child Care and Recommend Best Practices for Improvement: Use surveys, interviews, and comparative analysis to produce a best practice framework for improving workplace child care support. Enhance Community Entrepreneurship Programming: Analyze community needs and comparable programs to produce an enhanced entrepreneurship program with an impact evaluation framework. Child Welfare and Informal Labor: Measuring Economic Impact and Create Strategies to Protect Children: Review literature and analyze data to produce policy recommendations for reducing children's vulnerability in informal labor settings.

Health and Wellness

Projects focused on wellness toolkit design, community health planning, and health incentive program development.

Project Guides

Develop a Health & Wellness Toolkit for Clients: Assess community needs, evaluate comparable toolkits, and produce a themed toolkit with an effectiveness evaluation report. Prepare a Community Health Improvement Plan: Conduct a needs assessment and comparative CHIP analysis to produce a prioritized health improvement plan with a monitoring framework. Develop Methods to Achieve More Equitable Access to Health and Wellness for Children: Identify access gaps, develop innovative methods, and produce a policy brief with advocacy strategies for improving health equity for children. Create a Health and Wellness Incentive Program or Competition: Analyze community health behaviors and research comparable programs to produce an incentive program guide with a sustainability and measurement framework.

Community Organization, Social Action, and Advocacy

Projects focused on coalition building, community needs assessment, public awareness campaigns, and advocacy for policy change.

Project Guides

Building a Community Coalition Strategy: Define community needs, analyze existing coalitions, and develop a goal-driven strategy with sustainability measures. Conducting a Community Needs Assessment: Collect and analyze community data, then produce an assessment with an implementation roadmap for addressing priorities. Developing a Community Awareness Campaign: Research target audiences and comparable campaigns, then design a full campaign with evaluation metrics. Developing an Advocacy Plan for Policy Change: Analyze community challenges and comparable advocacy efforts, then produce a written plan with stakeholder mapping and SMART goals.

Case Management

Projects focused on collaborative model design, workforce training, culturally responsive frameworks, and burnout prevention.

Project Guides

Developing a Collaborative Case Management Model for Homeless Individuals: Assess community needs, research best practices, and design a collaborative model with an evaluation framework. Developing a Case Management Training Toolkit for New Case Managers: Identify workforce competency gaps and build a comprehensive training manual with evaluation strategies. Developing a Culturally Responsive Case Management Framework for Indigenous Communities: Research community needs and design a framework that integrates cultural heritage into coordinated service delivery. Developing a Burnout Prevention Plan: Examine burnout indicators, research prevention strategies, and produce an actionable plan with evaluation mechanisms.

Research, Analysis, Evaluation

Projects focused on social problem investigation, secondary data analysis, intervention strategy development, and policy effectiveness evaluation.

Project Guides

Conduct Research to Help Investigate Cause and Scope of Social Problem: Identify a social problem, collect and analyze data, and produce reports examining root causes, scope, and implications for intervention. Analyzing Secondary Data Sources: Advantages, Limitations, and Best Practices: Select, extract, and analyze secondary data to produce a best practice guideline for its reliable and ethical use in social research. Developing a Research-based Intervention Strategy: Assess community needs, engage stakeholders, and develop a conceptual framework and refined intervention strategy grounded in evidence. Conduct a Policy Effectiveness Analysis: Assess a policy's costs, benefits, long-term effects, implementation quality, and public perception to produce evaluation reports and recommendations for optimization.

Political Organization, Policy Change, and Advocacy

Projects focused on community power building, policy guidance, and legislative advocacy.

Project Guides

Build Community Power to Transform State & Local Landscape: Analyze the issue, map arenas and allies, and produce a resource strategy for building community power toward state and local policy change. Create a Road Map for Social Change through Education: Analyze community problems and design an educational framework to produce a roadmap for implementing social change through targeted programming. Develop Specific, Actionable Guidance for Local Policy Makers: Frame the issue from multiple perspectives, evaluate policy options, and produce an actionable policy guide with stakeholder analysis. Create a Playbook to Organize for Legislative Advocacy: Build issue knowledge, map allies, and design strategies to produce a legislative advocacy playbook with messaging tools and timing recommendations.

Addiction and Recovery

Projects focused on program design, client onboarding, resource mapping, and community network building.

Project Guides

Designing an Effective Addiction Recovery Program: A Step-by-Step Guide: Design a population-specific recovery program, from needs assessment through evidence-based planning and evaluation. Develop an Onboarding Plan for New Clients: Identify barriers to early engagement and build a structured, client-centered onboarding process for a recovery organization. Creating a Community Resource Guide: Map available services, assess gaps, and produce a practical resource guide for individuals navigating recovery. Building a Comprehensive Community Support Network for Addiction Recovery: Conduct a community needs assessment, identify stakeholders, and design a coordinated cross-sector support network.

Crisis and Disaster Management

Projects focused on emergency preparedness, socioeconomic impact assessment, child protection, and crisis communication planning.

Project Guides

Develop a Community Disaster and Emergency Plan: Assess community vulnerabilities, analyze existing response models, and produce a categorized emergency plan with an evaluation framework. Assessing the Socioeconomic Impacts of Crisis and Disaster Events: Identify key indicators, examine social and economic consequences, and produce policy recommendations for post-disaster recovery. Examine the Impact of Crises and Disasters on Child Welfare: Conduct literature review and best practice evaluation to produce policy recommendations for improving child protection during crises. Develop a Public Communication Plan for a Crisis or Disaster: Profile the target community and research comparable campaigns, then produce a communication plan with a metrics and evaluation framework.

Access and Opportunity

Projects focused on identifying barriers to access and opportunity, assessing community needs in child welfare systems.

Project Guides

Develop a Strategy to Overcome Systemic Barriers to Accessing Resources and Opportunities: Profile the community, analyze comparable strategies, and produce an actionable plan with measurable progress indicators. Community Access and Opportunity Assessment: Collect community data and analyze comparable assessments to produce findings with recommendations and a framework for tracking progress. Develop Culturally Responsive Life Skills Program for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: Conduct a needs assessment and identify best practices to produce a culturally responsive program outline and implementation plan. Diversity and Inclusion in Foster Care and Adoption: Toward an Equitable Child Welfare System: Engage stakeholders, review policies, and develop training materials to support more equitable and culturally competent practices in foster care and adoption.

Courts, Corrections, and Law Enforcement

Projects focused on cross-sector collaboration, child welfare intersections, community crime reduction, and criminal justice policy reform.

Project Guides

Recommend Strategies for Improving Collaboration Between Social Workers and Criminal Justice Professionals: Analyze communication barriers and research best practices to produce actionable collaboration recommendations. Explore the Intersection of the Child Welfare System and Law Enforcement: Review policy, identify best practices, and develop a cross-sector training program with an evaluation framework. Explore the Intersection of the Child Welfare System and the Department of Juvenile Justice: Examine service coordination challenges and produce policy recommendations for improving outcomes for dual-status youth.

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Facilitation, Mediation, Conflict Resolution

Projects focused on mediation tools, conflict analysis, and organizational conflict resolution policy and practice.

Project Guides

Develop a Mediation Guide: Assess mediator needs, analyze comparable guides, and produce a prototype guide with an evaluation and sustainability framework. Conflict Deep Dive & Suggest Resolution Tactics: Analyze conflict root causes and resolution approaches, then produce an action plan and a peacebuilding and reconciliation strategy. Develop Conflict Resolution Policies and Procedures: Assess organizational needs, analyze comparable policies, and produce conflict resolution procedures with an implementation plan. Measure an Organization's Effectiveness at Facilitation, Mediation, and Conflict Resolution: Evaluate facilitation techniques, mediation strategies, and organizational practices to produce an impact report with improvement recommendations.

Socioeconomic Factors Impacting Children

Projects focused on how socioeconomic factors shape children's health, education, and development.

Project Guides

Examine the Effects of Economic Disadvantage on Children's Wellbeing: Analyze how economic disadvantage shapes children's physical health, mental health, education, and social development, with policy recommendations across each domain. Determine How Education Quality Impacts Children in Low-Income Communities and Develop Recommendations for Improvement: Use literature review, data analysis, and case studies to produce a policy brief on improving education quality in low-income communities. Explore the Effects of Nutritional Deprivation on Children's Health and Development and Provide Recommendations for Improvement: Collect and analyze nutritional data, assess short- and long-term impacts, and produce a dissemination package with evidence-based recommendations. Evaluate the Role of Healthcare Accessibility in Promoting Child Health and Development: Assess impacts to produce recommendations and strategies for improving healthcare access and outcomes for children.