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Sample Proposal
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Biblical Counseling
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Executive Summary
This is a request for a grant totaling $10,000 for the
development of the Biblical Counseling Services (BCS) to the current
counseling curriculum at XYZ Bible Institute (XYZ). The start up cost of
the project is $109,200. There are two purposes for etablishing the BCS at
XYZ. First, BCS will provide practicum and counseling projects built upon
curriculum to equip students and other program participants to find
counseling solutions that are consistent with biblical principle. Four
college credit courses such as Fundamental Christian Counseling, Biblical
Psychology, Marriage and Family Dynamics, and Interpersonal Relationships
will be enhanced in our current curriculum as a result of this grant
funding.
Second, the addition of BCS to the counseling curriculum will
enable XYZ instructors to provide powerful and cost effective counseling
services to our students and people in our community. This new counseling
services at XYZ will be focused on marriage and family, children of divorce,
conducted-disorder children, and interpersonal relationships. This new BCS
will emphasize courses in Bible, Theology, and Counseling to provide
students, teachers, counselors, ministers, and other community leaders, with
a knowledge and practical application to address human concerns. Your
partnership with our counseling program will impact not only our students,
but other people in our community will also benifit from this partnership.
Applicant Overview
XYZ was formed in the spring of 1994, through the merger of
two young and vigorously growing schools. Founded in 1988 and 1990,
respectively, Gethsemane Bible Institute and Trinity Bible Institute each
sprang from a vision of an independent Pentecostal-Charismatic Bible college
for XYZ City. After
making each other’s acquaintance, the two schools decided to pool their
resources to this end. In 1998, XYZ celebrated the completion of eight
years of providing Christian, post-secondary professional education in
northwest XYZ City, near the corner of Perry Road and FM-1960. Plans are
being made for a move to a more central location.
Currently, the XYZ offers the four-year degrees in Christian
Ministry Major with five emphasis in Pastoral Ministry, English Bible,
Biblical Psychology and Counseling, Church Music, and Christian Education.
The school is progressing toward the goal of full accreditation, and has
recently earned provisional accreditation from the International Christian
Accrediting Association. Although XYZ is a very young school, it has
graduated productive Christian leaders who have impacted the lives of people
locally and internationally. XYZ students have served as pastors and
missionaries in Texas,
New Mexico, Central America, Europe and Africa.
Statement of Need
There are many needs for addition of BCS to our Counseling
Department. Firstly, with more than half of all first marriages ending in
divorce, counselors are advocating a preventive approach that would
encourage, if not require, engaged couples to seek premarital counseling.
For example in medicine, doctors have been advocating preventive approaches
for years, and now counselors are beginning to concentrate on preventive
approach for marriage and family. The call for premarital counseling has
been heard in every region of the country. In
Lanawee Country, Michigan,
District Court Judge James Sheridan pulled together a committee of local
civil servants and clergy who agreed that beginning June 1, 1997, couples
wanting to get married in the county must attend marriage education
classes. Will this work? Time will have the answer for this question, but
right now it seems to be essential component prior to the wedding. Your
funding for this project will enhance our teaching and preparing our
students marriage and family counseling and will allow us to offer
counseling services to the people of our community.
Secondly, there is a great need for counseling services for
children of divorce. An old proverb says that, “Time heals all wounds,” but
it turns out, despite the seemingly universal application of this proverb,
there apparently are some wounds that time simply cannot heal. According to
Judith Wallerstein, one of the nation's foremost authorities on divorce and
its effect on children, her 25 year studies indicate that the impact of
divorce steadily increases--rather than decreases--over the first three
decades of children's lives. Wallerstein reports that children of divorce
have a tendency to abuse drugs and alcohol, to become sexually active at a
young age, to lack academic prowess, and to have difficulty forming romantic
relationships later in life.
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Finally, about one in 10 children have a conduct disorder,
according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS
suggests that conduct disorders are often seen in conjunction with other
problems including hyperactivity, anxiety, academic difficulties, or
problems with peer relationships. Children with conduct disorders often
experience a lack of supervision or guidance, frequent changes in
caregivers, poverty, and neglect. They also may surround themselves with a
delinquent peer group. Because of these facts, early intervention is
essential. Counselors can help these children change the poor behavior
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Project Goals and Objectives
Staffed by Licensed Professional Counselors, BCS will provide
individual counseling, facilitates various support groups, sponsors personal
growth seminars, and encourages awareness of issues of concern. The Goals
of BCS are:
1. To teach participants to apply their learning to resolve
problems related to family, self, and tension throughout the community,
eventually reducing social problems.
2. To create a better learning environment on colleges our
college campus.
3. To establish an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural
curriculum counseling training.
4. To promote healing and to establish counseling practices
in the community.
Five Objectives of BCS Are to:
1. Add five more counseling courses to our curriculum:
a. Fund. Christian Counseling c. Biblical Psychology
b. Marriage and Family d. Interpersonal
Relationships,
2. Provide free 500 hours of counseling services per year to
the community
3. Provide free 500 hours of counseling services/year to
students
4. Provide four
personal growth seminar sessions per year for students, local pastors, and
other members of the community.
Program Description
For academic purposes, BCS will provide the following
services to students, faculty, and staff:
1. BCS will provides
students with confidential and free counseling dealing with their own
concerns.
2. BCS will provide
consulting and training to faculty and staff on how to effectively help
students.
3. BCS will provide
psychoeducational programming to benefits staff, students, and local
community. Staff members are available for making presentations to classes,
seminars, faculty/staff groups, and student groups on a variety of
counseling-related topics.
For premarital counseling, traditionally many churches
provide some type of counseling, usually performed by a member of the
clergy. According to Mike McManus, President of Marriage Savers, has helped
Modesto, California make premarital counseling a requirement, which reports
the divorce rate has fallen 40 percent since the plan took effect. Our
premarital counseling services will establish a network of Ministers to
provide counseling sessions for engaged couples. These training sessions
include the preliminary examination and the teaching of conflict resolution
skills.
Four family counseling, XYZ services will offer the biblical
power to families to find and do God's will, thereby cooperating with God's
plan to progressively reduce the family’s problems. The biblical counselor
will come alongside to support, to give hope, and to lead counselees to
awareness to help determining the biblical principles that apply to their
problems, teach them how to apply biblical principles, and assign projects
that will incorporate the biblical principles so that the counselees will
see change in both in mind and behavior.
For children of divorse counseling, according to Wallerstein,
the impact of divorce increases over time. The research cites that the
experience of divorce leaves children with a deep sense of abandonment,
loneliness, and vulnerable to drugs, alcohol and sex. Annually, more than
one million children experience the divorce of their parents. This
ever-expanding population requires professional counseling to at least
mitigate the repercussions of divorce. There are some fundamental
techniques that have proven to be successful, which usually involve the
parents:
a. Facilitating Communication.
Children need to understand early on that divorce is an issue between two
adults, and they are not the cause of it. Counselors can accomplish this
most effectively by having the children and the parents sit down together
and work through the process in a group session.
b. Resolving Anger. Many of the repercussions of divorce are exacerbated
by feelings of anger. Counselors can address the ill will that exists not
only between the parents but also between the children and the parents.
Counselors can attempt to help parents resolve their own anger so it is not
projected on children.
c. Group Counseling and Support Group.
According to Brenda Dew, a licensed marriage and family therapist expert, "I
have found that teens work much better in a group setting than one-on-one.”
Support groups are an effective way for adult children of divorce to
reconcile some of their feelings.
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For children with conduct disorder program, when talk about
children with conduct disorder, "we're talking about unusual and serious
violations of rules," said Jeff Cochran, a counseling psychologist at
Georgia Southern
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Most childhood conduct
disorders become apparent by age 10, and teachers are usually the first to
express concern about the behavior as the child begins to disrupt the school
environment. Most experts do agree that successful treatment depends
on early intervention. Our program will provide training to Christian
educators on how to identify and to successfully intervene early in the
lives of children with conduct disorders.
Method to Deliver Counseling Services
In addition to individual counseling, small group, and
seminars, XYZ will use some other methods to provide effective services such
as tele-counseling and internet counseling, small groups to help counselees
receive the valuable professional counseling.
Telecounsel Offers:
Counselees can receive help immediately with real results
beginning with the first call. This telecounseling offers convenience way
for counselee to receive immediate and caring support from anywhere - home,
office, or even from a car - anywhere counselee can dial our toll-free
number. Counselees can call anytime and create a healing program that's
just right for them. With telecounsel, counselees always get truly
affordable, yet high-quality, caring, and one-on-one counseling that yields
genuine results.
Internet Counseling
Although the Internet will never take the place of
face-to-face interactions, it can be used as preliminary sessions to
identify the problems and to collect initial information about our clients.
A well-kept secret about the Internet is the low cost of communicating with
people anywhere in the world. Counselors can advise counselees from home or
office, or send announcements to all members via email. On-line "chatting,"
which is having a live counseling with someone by typing the dialogue, will
also be used as a tool in counseling. In addition, the wonders of the World
Wide Web will be used to find or to provide counseling information.
Finally, the Internet offers counselors a vehicle to help clients who may
not be able to afford individual counseling or who live in rural areas and
are unable to access self-help information or organizations.
Student Intership Program
This is a significant period of practical work bridging the
student's formal on-campus program with entry into the ongoing practice of
professional counseling. The internship site can be a Christian school, a
church, or a non-profit organization. Internship programs are customarily
designed as full-time, for one calendar year, for a total of at least 2000
hours, (or two consecutive years at half-time). The internship site is also
required to furnish XYZ Program Director with a mid-year and end-of-year
evaluation of the intern's performance.
Potential to Serve as a Model
The BCS will address the needs among immigrants, low income
families, students, teachers, staff, counselors, and community leaders
counseling services and training. The lessons learned in forming this
partnership and implementing a project could be enormously instructive to
other schools and colleges grappling with the thorny issues of counseling
education and other human services in their community. The combination of
XYZ and other non-profit organizations provides an interesting and powerful
collaborative model to address community problems. Our efforts to build new
partnerships will not end with this project nor disappear quickly. Our
long-term strategy includes building upon the opportunities and lessons
learned in this initiative.
Project Management and Evaluation
Management Team:
The project will be managed primarily by XYZ staff, who will
direct the training and recruiting of volunteers, students, and staff to
provide counseling education and services. Our staff will also coordinate
training activities and staff development, and maintain regular
communications with key project participants. Key staff includes: John D.
Haydel, President of XYZ; Kathleen Harder, Academic Dean; Carol Elden,
Director of Biblical Psychology and Counseling Department; and, Jan Haydel,
Professor of Counseling.
Project Evaluation: The success of the BCS Project can be measured in several
stages. The first stage will be the successful establishment of an
interdisciplinary curriculum. The final stage will be the development of
counseling ministries in greater
XYZ City area churches and
Christian Schools.
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Intended Outcomes |
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Enhance Counseling
Education. |
What courses do we
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Number of Enrollments. |
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Program Activities |
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*Free services:
Students
Community Members
* Counseling Seminars |
* Kind of services
*Subjects and Speakers |
* Number of families and student we served
* Recording time
* Number of participants
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Project Modification |
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Data Collection |
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Staff and participants
questionnaires |
Strength, weakness,
concern, and improvement |
Analysis of questionnaires
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Budget
A. Seed Money:
Requested
a. Personnel
Program
Director $30,000.00 part-time (60%
of the time)
Certified Counselor
$20,000.00 part-time (60% of the time)
Administrator Assistant
$14,000.00 full-time
Adjunct Instructors ($35.00/hours)
$17,500.00 500 hours of instruction/training.
c. Equipment
Computers and
printers $ 5,000.00 One time only
Cable, installation, and
training $ 1,000.00 One time only
Desk/Chair for
office $ 2,000.00 One time only
d. Supports
Prints and promotion $ 5,000.00
Office/Counseling Facility $ -0-
Donated space
Telephone $
3,600.00
Internet Services/Web Page Hosting $ 600.00
Office supplies and copy $
3,000.00
Legal & consultant services $
5,000.00
Others: Administrative,
etc. $ 2,500.00
Total/Year $109,200.00 |
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