Community Assessment
The purpose of this assignment is to broaden your understanding of a
community, develop analytical skills regarding communities in relation to
specific populations and their needs, and to better plan and develop
interventions to address issues and problems facing the community.
This assignment has three parts: Part I Understanding Your Community, where
you will consider the current demographics of the community and analyze how
that has changed over the past 20 years; Part II Community Assessment,
where you assess your community and a problem within your community; and
Part III Community Action Plan, where you develop a specific action plan to
address the problem you identified. As you reflect on the learning
resources and concepts from Weeks 1-4, be sure to explain what you have
learned about the policy’s effect on various groups (human trafficking).
Consider how will this knowledge assist you with your community action plan.
Community: Atlanta, GA
Submit a 4 page paper. The paper needs to be well-researched and written
using APA guidelines. Data should come from at least five sources.
Part I: Understanding your Community
- Analyze how your community has changed over the past 20 years. Use
policy and community concepts and theories from the learning resources to
support your analysis.
- Describe your community, using research and statistics to describe
socio-demographic make-up. (For example: How many persons live in the city
and/or in the town? What were/are their cultural/racial characteristics?
What were/are their incomes, ages, political affiliations, etc.?)
Part II: Community Assessment
- Describe a problem that the community is currently experiencing.
- Assess the duration, intensity, and frequency of the problem.
- Analyze the probable etiology of the problem, supporting your
analysis with resources.
- Analyze the key elements and characteristics of the community that
make it vulnerable to this problem.
- Analyze the key strengths of the community that give the community
resilience and the potential for overcoming the problem.
- Identify major institutions (e.g., schools, factories, churches,
attraction sites, etc.) and explain how these institutions contribute to or
inhibit the community’s ability to address the problem?
- Explain which groups are most affected by the problem.
Part III: Community & Policy Action Plan
- Describe your proposed plan for community change.
- Explain the strategies and tactics you would you use to bring about
change. Consider if you would need multiple strategies, and if so, explain
which strategy would be used for each target.
- Explain any policies that may influence the ability, either supportive
or prohibitive, to influence proposed community change.
- Explain what policies would need to be in place to ensure proposed
plans are sustainable.
https://ctb.ku.edu/en/assessing-community-needs-and-resources
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