Dev hcr 439_community_assessment_ppt rev
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This document discusses conducting community assessments and outlines several key points: 1) Community assessments help clarify problems, identify community needs, and recognize strengths and resources. 2) A community is defined as a group of people living in an area who share culture, values, and social structure. 3) Data collection methods for community assessments include observation, interviews with key informants, meetings, existing data sources, and surveys.
Dev hcr 439_community_assessment_ppt rev
- 2. Different types of COMMUNITIES Neighborhood Community Community of Problem Ecology Community of Special Interest Community of Identifiable Need
- 3. Why even do a Community Assessment???
- 4. Community assessment benefits: To clarify problems To identify community needs To identify strengths and resources
- 5. Community definition A group of people, often living in a defined geographical area, who may share a common culture, values and norms, and are arranged in a social structure according to relationships which the community has developed over a period of time. Members of a community gain their personal and social identity by sharing common beliefs, values and norms which have been developed by the community in the past and may be modified in the future.” WHO, 2004 Population definition A body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/population
- 6. How do I collect data for a community assessment?
- 7. Observation IV with Key Informants Meetings Existing data sources Surveys – formal and informal Tools to collect CA data
- 8. What data do I collect? (What is important to know about a community?)
- 9. Community Assessment Frameworks Many different guides/frameworks Functional Health Patterns – FHP -Applied to communities
- 10. Functional Health Patterns Review of FHP related to a community See Functional Health Pattern resource in Blackboard, word document