Sample papers and Documents

SOCW 6355 Advanced Use of Information Technology in Human Services

Sample papers from Previous Classes

The basics of the analysis paper are included in the solution paper.  All papers posted with the permission of the authors.  Papers are in PDF format and require acrobat reader for viewing.  Some instructor comments might be included on the papers. 

Note:  Papers were posted because they provided examples of various problems/situations, not because they were all grade "A" papers.    Posting of a paper has no relationship to paper or course grades.

• Example of Parts A&B of a paper on improving data maintenance in local refugee resettlement agencies (with comment, 2010).

• Example of Parts A&B of a paper on how technology can help support linking of the elderly with foster children (with comments, 2009)

• Example of Parts A&B of a paper on how agencies need to be using technology to connect to millennials (with comments, 2009).

• Example of Part A of a paper on major depression disorder (with comments, 2008)

• Example of Parts A&B of a paper on Online Emotional & Social Support Group For Young Adults with Spina Bifida (with comments, 2008)

• Example of Part A and Part B of a paper to address post-traumatic stress disorder in refugees (2004)   Part A had well organized systems and decision making perspectives.  

• Example of the use of technology to address issues of recruitment and retention of foster parents.  The paper presents creative technology solutions to common problems (2001).

• Example of an information system application that is a subsystem of a larger system, e.g., a social work department of a hospital (2001).

• Example of using technology to create a virtual community to increase organizational recruitment and promotion

• Example of using technology as part of a treatment plan for a stroke victim

• Example of the presentation of a paper as a web site

• Example of an analysis/solution paper that used a systems analysis approach

• Example of an analysis paper addressing CPS worker trauma with grading comments included (2002)

• Example of a traditional analysis for an agency information system in a children's agency (deidentified).  This paper shows how needs and strengths are used to consider solutions (this paper is from a PhD student, so it is much more involved than the others from Masters students).