At a minimum, the community assessment must include: Demographic information about eligible infants, toddlers, preschool age children, and expectant mothers Information about the education, health, nutrition, and social service needs of eligible children and their families Work, school, and training schedules of parents with eligible children
The Community Assessment process can aid in identifying additional community resources, especially those agencies that typically do not provide services to American Indian/Alaska Natives. The collection of information and opinions from community groups and agencies increases awareness of the AIAN community.
This workbook has been developed to assist community assessment work groups or teams to organize themselves and their work, to gather relevant data systemat- ically, and to analyze the information so that it has meaning for program planning (e.g., grant application, strategic plan, recruitment plan).
In each of the two years following completion of the Community Assessment, you should conduct a review to determine whether there have been significant changes in the information; if so, the CA must be updated and the decisions based on that information must be reconsidered.
Handling and planning on running a huge community or an organization is never an easy task to begin with. Being a leader to a lot of people with different needs can also be a difficult task to do. Each person in the community may need something more than the other or may need less than the other as well.
This Workbook describes the process of conducting a community assessment as a series of five steps: Plan and Organize, Design Data Collection, Gather Data, Review and Analyze, and Make Decisions. The Workbook presents information that will help Head Start and Early Head Start programs conduct a thorough and up-to-date community assessment and also will help programs identify new or underserved ...
Decribes how each of the 10 steps in the Community Health Assessment Development Process can be completed. Has tools and tips for conducting each of the steps
• Plan for a community needs assessment by: o Identifying a community team o Describing the scope of the assessment o Listing the questions to ask
Conducting Community Health Needs Assessments: An Eight-Step Process An assessment process centered around convening a broad-based Community Group that
There are five basic steps in the Community Assessment process: Step 1: Plan and Organize Step 2: Design Data Collection Step 3: Gather Data Step 4: Review and Analyze Data Step 5: Make Decisions In this workbook, each of the steps will be discussed separately and in some detail. Each step will have its own section, which offers guidance specific to conducting activities in that step. There will also be some helpful tips which have been lessons learned by AIAN HS/EHS programs or are suggested by the regional office. In preparation for conducting a Community Assessment, AIAN HS/EHS programs should familiarize themselves with the Head Start Performance Standards relating to CA, with their grant, and with this workbook before they begin the process.
comprehensive Community Assessment is an effective way to educate staff, parents,policy advisory groups and the governing body about the needs, strengths, character-istics of families and the community. It can be used to orient new staff and volunteersand plan appropriate trainings.
(See Appendix A.) The federal grant application process establishes a three-year cycle. Grantees prepare a comprehensive Community Assessment every three years and include it in their first year grant application. Shorter updates are written and included for second and third year applications (see 1305.3(e)). To expedite processing by the AIAN Program Branch, it is important to insure that the grant application contains all necessary information that can be obtained through a detailed CA.
Community assessment: application to community/public health nursing practice. Assessment, the first step of the nursing process, forms the foundation for determining the client’s health, regardless of whether the client is an individual, a family, or a community.
The definition of a community determines its boundaries. Consider the boundary as the skin or outside limit of the community. Establishing the boundary helps the nurse determine what data will be collected and considered internal to the community, in other words, community information. Defining the boundary also identifies the suprasystem, the environment outside the community. Data collected from the suprasystem are considered external influences, or inputs, and may impact or influence the community.
Anderson and McFarlane (2010) define community in terms of a core dimension (people) and eight subsystems: (1) physical environment, (2) education, (3) safety and transportation, (4) politics and government, (5) health and social services, (6) communication, (7) economics, and (8) recreation.
Behringer and Richards (1996) described community as a web of people shaped by relationship, interdependence, mutual interests, and patterns of interaction. Shamansky and Pesznecker (1981) provided an operational definition of community considering the following three factors: (1) who (people factors), (2) where and when (space and time factors), and (3) why and how (for what purpose?). Ervin (2002) stressed that community assessments always occur at a particular time, for example, July 2011, or during the year 2012.
Population is the most obvious of the necessary community components. The number of people included in the community depends on the other two critical components. A population can be a relatively small number (a group of 20 pregnant adolescents enrolled in a clinic) or a large number of people (a city of one million).
If you were to ask five people to define the word community, you would probably get five different answers: “a place where people dwell,” “a group of people with common interests,” “a place with specific boundaries.” Some people may speak about an academic community, a religious community, or a nursing community, and others may define community as the neighborhood or city in which they live. Depending on the circumstances, each definition is correct.
The assessment process affords nurses the opportunity to experience what it is like to be in the community, to get to know its people and their strengths and problems, and to work with them in planning and implementing programs to meet their unique needs. Just as all individuals and families are different, communities, too, are different. What makes one community different from another? To understand, nurses must get to know the community, its people, its purpose, and how it functions. Assessment tools provide a framework, a method of systematically gathering important information to help the nurse and other health care professionals know the community.
There are five basic steps in the Community Assessment process: Step 1: Plan and Organize Step 2: Design Data Collection Step 3: Gather Data Step 4: Review and Analyze Data Step 5: Make Decisions In this workbook, each of the steps will be discussed separately and in some detail. Each step will have its own section, which offers guidance specific to conducting activities in that step. There will also be some helpful tips which have been lessons learned by AIAN HS/EHS programs or are suggested by the regional office. In preparation for conducting a Community Assessment, AIAN HS/EHS programs should familiarize themselves with the Head Start Performance Standards relating to CA, with their grant, and with this workbook before they begin the process.
comprehensive Community Assessment is an effective way to educate staff, parents,policy advisory groups and the governing body about the needs, strengths, character-istics of families and the community. It can be used to orient new staff and volunteersand plan appropriate trainings.
(See Appendix A.) The federal grant application process establishes a three-year cycle. Grantees prepare a comprehensive Community Assessment every three years and include it in their first year grant application. Shorter updates are written and included for second and third year applications (see 1305.3(e)). To expedite processing by the AIAN Program Branch, it is important to insure that the grant application contains all necessary information that can be obtained through a detailed CA.