This includes the rationale for development, administrative structure, funding, service delivery method, and collaborations necessary to create and continue the organization.
Goals are used as a basis for evaluation of the program. Evaluation must measure the extent to which the agency is meeting its goals. Further, evaluation should inform adjustments to the intervention approaches, if/when changes are needed to advance the goals.
As an introduction to RAINN, visit and explore the RAINN website. You may also want to review more recent research about the proliferation of telehealth and other digital social work interventions, as well as media coverage about the increase in these service options and shifting public and consumer opinion about their efficacy.
Then, assess your own attitudes and beliefs about online services by filling out the Etherapy Attitude Scale.
Just as you would begin to engage with an individual client by approaching them to learn more about their story, commence your engagement with the RAINN case by reviewing the organization’s goals, organizational chart, and components. What questions do you have about RAINN? What sources of information could you use to proceed with that inquiry?
Review RAINN funding sources. Why is it important to understand an organization’s financial situation—including the sources, adequacy, and constraints of its funding—in order to inform your eventual work?
Examine your own attitudes about online services. You may also want to conduct a quick search to learn more about how different populations—by gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability, for example—feel about and engage with online service delivery. How should these distinctions figure into your considerations about the RAINN service delivery model?