Community Needs Assessment
About This Handbook
Purpose
Handbook 2 provides details about developing and carrying out
a community needs assessment for home and community care.
The Handbook is intended for community/tribal council/regional
Inuit association planners and regional First Nations and Inuit
organizations.
This Handbook is a guide. The steps outlined in the
Handbook do not need to be followed in every way. Its goal is
to support - not replace - the essential process of determining
what will work best in your community. Importantly, the
Handbook promotes the integration of community beliefs and
values into the design of the program. In this regard, select
the examples and suggestions in the Handbook that
reflect the values in your community and are most
appropriate for meeting your community's particular
needs.
The aim of the planning and development process is:
- to build an effective Home and Community Care Program;
- to provide services that meet the needs of community
members;
- to ensure that the services can be provided as long as they
are needed; and
- to establish a foundation for making the program better as
the years go by.
The planning and
development process
for your Home and
Community Care Program
is designed to be
community based and
community paced.
This process is an ever evolving process that
will ensure that home and community care
services will continually seek new and
innovative ways and means of responding
to the identified needs in each First Nations
and Inuit community.
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