Interviews
When interviewing with the agency administration, report on the following:
We appreciate your interest in Peter’s Place and for reaching out to us as part of your community agency project.
We are a grieving center for children and families with our mission being to provide safe and supportive environments for grieving children and families and to act as a community resource to foster understanding of the effects of death and grief. We employ a peer support model and therefore we do not provide therapy or counseling services. Given our model we do not have “actual results”.
1. Services performed by the administrators and service staff.
2. In-take procedures and eligibility requirements for admission/acceptance.
3. Type of service provided by this agency – what is provided to clients.
4. Expected outcomes – what is the ultimate goal-what clients should expect.
5. Actual results – ultimate goal vs. reality (e.g., the success rate of services provided). Responses that simply indicate that the staff or the clients seem pleased are not sufficient.
Evaluation
1.How effectively and efficiently is the agency run? Your response should include the interviewer’s information as well as your own critical assessment. You should not simply write that all is great with the agency.
2. Would you recommend sending students/clients to this agency? Support your conclusions including concrete benefits/reasons.
3. Identify some creative solutions to the problems faced by the agency. No agency is without some problems. Be thoughtful in your analysis and very innovative in your suggested solutions. Only innovation, creative solutions will receive full credit (in other words – think ‘outside the box’ – fundraisers, etc. are not creative).