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Question

Select a local program in Arizona that provides counseling services. Imagine that you have been asked by the program you chose to conduct a needs assessment to identify any gaps in services and recommendations for services to fit the needs of the community. Identify three peer-reviewed articles that collected samples of data from community mental health or school-based programs like the one you have selected. Using these resources, create a report that can be used to carry out a needs assessment improving the services in your community. Within the content of the report address the following with support from your selected three peer-reviewed articles:

1. Describe how you would conduct a needs assessment to improve the services in your community.

2. Explain your processes of selecting a quantitative or qualitative measurement tool and why this specific tool was selected.

3. Explain how the tool you selected provides useful findings for this program. Integrate findings from previous research studies to discuss likely outcomes for your program's needs assessment.
Explain how your dependent and independent variables in your study might change your expectations of participant experiences with interventions while collecting data.

4. Describe the properties of validity and reliability for the instrument you have selected. Was the research conducted based on quantitative or qualitative measures?

5. Include three peer-reviewed articles in the reference section of your research report.