Senior Capstone Practicum Proposal Form 2018-19

 
Student Name: Joana Smith; Ebony Tolbert  Period: 1 
 
Topic (a few words): Bringing awareness of homelessness in the community 
 
Topic in full sentence (identifies the problem): Homelessness in Riverside especially Downtown is a 
huge issue so we hope to bring awareness to the problem and get the community more involved in 
helping them. 
 
Description of practicum (What do you see this journey being for you?)  
 
We see this journey as being a eye opener for us and the community. Everyone looks at the homeless 
in a certain way and we hope to make others more selfless or even more helpful to the less 
fortunate.  
 
**Questions used for Research (Annotated Bibliography): 
 
1.What causes elderly homelessness? 

2. Minor solutions that can help alleviate homelessness? 

3.How is volunteering at homeless shelters effective? 

4.Is the elderly homeless population higher and why? 

5.Reasons why people become homeless. 

6.Why has the homeless population increased so drastically? 

7.How can homelessness be alleviated  

8. What organizations in Riverside help the homeless? 

9. How does little to no sleep affect the homeless? 

10.What percentage of the homeless are mentally ill?  

 
What information did you learn through your research that you will apply to the practicum? Provide 
specific details. ​TO BE COMPLETED AFTER RESEARCH! 

I learned that 45% of the homeless are mentally ill. I also learned that sleep deprivation leds to drug and
alcohol usage or add onto existing drug and alcohol usage.

Learning Goals/Outcomes: What will you understand and/or be able to do as a result of your 
practicum? 
 
We will have a better understanding of the homeless and be able to help others with getting a 
 different persepective of the homeless. Hopefully poly will begin having an annual clothing drive 
like we have an annual canned food drive. 
 
How will you make a difference in ​other people’s​ lives from your journey. What impact do you hope to 
have? 
 
The difference we hope to make in other people lives from our capstone is to give those who frown 
upon the homeless a different perspective. We hope to use the organization we work with to 
encourage the homeless. We also hope to get an annual clothing drive for poly so that even when we 
are gone we have made a huge impact.  
 
 
 
 
 
List the steps you will take to complete the practicum and how will you document ​each and every 
step​ for completing your product (emails, photos, videos, interviews- recorded or transcribed, surveys, 
phone call logs, etc...). You may add steps/spaces as needed. A few steps will not do. Think of every 
possible step. 
 
Step  Evidence  

Contact homeless shelters we will volunteer at   Pictures/Videos 

Asking teachers to put clothes donation boxes in their classes  Pictures/ Videos 

Contact shelters that we can refer homeless to   Call Logs 

Print fliers to donate clothing to ( teachers classrooms)  Picture of flier 

After boxes get filled begin to donate them to the salvation army  Pictures  

Pass out water bottles downtown to the homeless ( around mission inn)  Video Footage 

Ask Dr. Roe about doing an annual clothing drive   Agreement letter 

Survey students at poly on volunteer work/ or any way they helped the  Pictures for the results of 
homeless  the survey  

Make an awareness video from the pictures/videos we collect overtime  Video 

Hang posters around Poly to try and get students more involved  Pictures/Posters will be 
seen 

Get teachers to play the video in their fourth or fifth period class  Video of classes 
 
What organization (if any) will you work with and for what purpose? 
 
We plan on working with Feeding America, United way, The Salvation army, and possibly Goodwill. 
We hope to be more involved in the community and help the less fortunate. Also to get others 
involved because if this was to continue or even more people get involved it would be beneficial to 
 the community. 
 
Learning Stretch: How will this project be a new and meaningful challenge for you? 
 
We have done volunteer work before but it wasn’t repetitive so we hope to gain knowledge and be 
able to show compassion for others after trying to put ourselves in their shoes. I think this will be a 
meaningful challenge because we are really putting ourselves out there to get more involved. 
 
How will you display your final practicum in your digital portfolio? (Pictures, videos, screencasts, 
etc…) Remember that ALL of your evidence must be on your portfolio. An interview must be filmed 
or have a transcript. Every picture must have a verbal explanation (screencastify?) Anyone should be 
able to access your website and be able to understand every step you took. ​You saying you did 
something is not enough. You must have evidence of every step. ​Be thorough here!
 
We will have a digital portfolio with pictures of everything we are doing/ have done. We hope to get 
a lot of pictures rather than videos because we are unsure if others would want to be videotaped. If 
we can’t get pictures or videos we plan on doing interviews and recording with our phones and 
uploading that onto the website.  
 
Student Signature __________________________________________________ Date _________________ 
 
Parent Signature __________________________________________________ Date _________________ 

Teacher Signature __________________________________________________ Date __________________

Accepted As-Is ___________​ ​Accepted With Modifications ____________