Debra Rog’s Homelessness Evaluation Study There is no doubt that studies aimed at evaluating the conditions of life of those people belonging to vulnerable populations are very important as they allow the society to define the most appropriate ways to improve the situation and promote social equality. In her article, Fitzpatrick (1999) tells about her conversation with Debra Rog, who is one of the researchers who has studied the position of homeless families collaborating with specialists from RJW, which is one of the leading benevolent associations in the United States. If analyzed from the ethical perspective, the decisions that she was making throughout the study seem to be quite informed because they led to important results that can be used for further research on the topic. To complete the evaluation and study the effectiveness of programs for homeless people, the author was using data on families who participated in nine different programs (Rog, 1991). It cannot be denied that flexibility is very important during such research because the information retrieved from different sources can sometimes be heterogeneous, and a researcher may need to use additional tools to process it. One of the projects that I am working on is the evaluation of orphan care in the United States hat would be causal research. I am planning to focus on the present problems in orphan care and the possible reasons why they occur. According to my plan, the data will be collected with the help of interviews and mailed questionnaires. I propose this research as it will be able to summarize the results of the implementation of orphan care programs and the perceptions of orphans themselves, and it will be possible to use the results to strengthen the programs studied. Observational data can be used as well as it helps to track changes in orphans’ behavior. The types of information collected through observation for “school readiness outcomes” include the behavior and reaction of children and their parents and track positive changes. Nevertheless, the use of observational methods is not very effective when it comes to improvement in parents’ skills. The stakeholders that influence my planning are program managers. Taking the issues mentioned above into consideration, one can develop a philosophy about evaluation research as the latter involves problems related both to data processing and ethical appropriateness of methods. Challenges of Evaluating Advocacy and Policy-Related Projects There are a lot of researchers related to social science that pay increased attention to policy change and advocacy while defining and evaluating strengths and weaknesses of social programs for people belonging both to the middle class and vulnerable population. A great number of articles are devoted to challenges and problems that occur during such evaluation. To find an effective solution to many of these problems, researchers propose the use of a prospective approach that involves certain benefits such as extended opportunities for progress tracking and promotion of professional education (Louis & Guthrie, 2007). Also, while conducting the analysis allowing to encourage positive advocacy and policy changes, one has to think a