Prompt: Building upon your work for Milestones One and Two, you will submit a draft of the Intervention Strategy and Implementation Plan sections of your grant proposal.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in your milestone assignment:

I. Intervention Strategy: Research and justify the selection of a theoretically supported and effective intervention strategy for addressing the target issue.

a. Efficacy: Analyze and critique at least two established intervention strategies for inconsistencies and effectiveness.

i. Critically examine intervention strategies for consistency with current developmental theories.

ii. How effective were these strategies in addressing their respective issues? To what extent would these intervention strategies address the issue identified in your community?

b. Selection: Select an intervention strategy and justify your selection based on its effectiveness and the individual, familial, environmental, cultural, and political factors. Your strategy should be appropriate for your age-specific population.

c. Ethics: Analyze the selected intervention strategy for possible ethical and legal challenges. Consider provider as well as client concerns.

II. Implementation Plan: Construct a plan for implementation of the selected intervention strategy in your community.

a. Narrative: Compose a narrative to describe the setting, personnel, target population, length of time for service, and capacity of the proposed program.

b. Training: Formulate a strategy for the training of personnel according to the selected intervention strategy.

c. Assessment: Recommend an assessment plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention strategy.

d. Ethics: Assess the ethical and legal implications for implementing the intervention strategy in your community.