Community Needs Assessment

Summary Checklist

• ACTIVITIES: Set Up Activities
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  • ACTIVITIES: Adopt or develop research ethical guidelines (refer to Appendix A for example)
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  • ACTIVITIES: Coordinate your needs assessment with other community research
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• ACTIVITIES: Design and Carry Out Your Needs Assessment
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  • ACTIVITIES: Discuss the objectives of the needs assessment
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  • ACTIVITIES: Decide on the type of data you want to collect
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  • ACTIVITIES: Develop or adapt collection tools (refer to Appendices B, C, D, E, F for examples)
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  • ACTIVITIES: Decide on the data collection methods you will use (e.g. the survey, the focus groups, meetings and the interviews)
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  • ACTIVITIES: Review process with community leadership
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  • ACTIVITIES: Organize and carry out the data collection
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• ACTIVITIES: Analyze the Information You Have Gathered
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  • ACTIVITIES: Sort and organize the information into categories, using charts as appropriate (refer to Appendix G for example)
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  • ACTIVITIES: Review the information and discuss your understanding of it
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• ACTIVITIES: Prepare Your Needs Assessment Report (refer to Appendix G for example)
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  • ACTIVITIES: Description of needs assessment process
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  • ACTIVITIES: Description of the community and its
    community based services
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  • ACTIVITIES: Summary of the information collected
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  • ACTIVITIES: Profile of the existing and the needed services
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  • ACTIVITIES: Most significant service gaps identified
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  • ACTIVITIES: Most critical training requirements
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  • ACTIVITIES: Review Results with Community Leadership
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• ACTIVITIES: Hold Community Meeting
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