The point of this is to be coparing the use of research and program evaluation in counseling. You will conduct a needs assessment, describe recommendations to fit the needs of the community, and research interventions before evaluating their effectiveness. Select a local program in Arizona that provides counseling services. Imagine that you have been asked by the program you chose to conduct a needs assessment to identify any gaps in services and recommendations for services to fit the needs of the community. Identify three peer-reviewed articles that collected samples of data from community mental health or school-based programs like the one you have selected. Using these resources, make a report that can be used to carry out a needs assessment improving the services in your community. Report templates can be found online. it has to be a report and not an essay. Within the content of the report address the following with support from your selected three peer-reviewed articles:

• Describe how you would conduct a needs assessment to improve the services in your community.
• Explain your processes of selecting a quantitative or qualitative measurement tool and why this specific tool was selected.
• Explain how the tool you selected provides useful findings for this program. Integrate findings from previous research studies to discuss likely outcomes for your program's needs assessment.
• Explain how your dependent and independent variables in your study might change your expectations of participant experiences with interventions while collecting data.
• Describe the properties of validity and reliability for the instrument you have selected. Was the research conducted based on quantitative or qualitative measures?