Community Assessment and Health Project Planning Flashcards
It is an exercise by which a collaborative partnership gathers information on the current strengths, concerns, and conditions of children, families, and the community.
Community Assessment
It focus on local assets, resources, and activities as well as gaps, barriers, or emerging needs.
Community Assessments
A problem to be addressed, planning requires a what?
critical analysis
It is important for developing a goal and objectives for the project that are realistic and achievable.
Problem analysis
The planning process also includes deciding how the project will be what? (MSE)
managed, sustained, and evaluated
A term used to describe a process of collecting information that will give a good indication of the priority needs of a community.
Needs assessment
It provides an opportunity for the community to become involved in the planning from the beginning.
Needs assessment
It helps with allocating resources and making decisions about where to start with health promotion work.
Needs assessment
When undertaking a needs assessment, it is important to consider that needs will be thought of differently, depending on whom you consult.
Classifying needs
4 Needs
Felt Needs
Expressed Needs
Normative Needs
Comparative Needs
A discrepancy between an individual/s or group/s present state and a given norm or standard.
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Normative Need
An individual desire or want that an individual has to improve either his or her performance.
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Felt Need
Asking people what they want.
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Felt Need
When searching for this ‘needs’, designers must be aware of needs that are motivated by a desire other than performance improvement.
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Felt Need
A felt need becomes an this “need” when people put what they want into actions.
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Expressed Need
For instance, if more students sign up for an online course than the seat limit, then there may be an expressed need for more sections of the course.
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Expressed Need
It is often identified in suggestion boxes and in-house publications with a question-and-answer or suggestion column.
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Expressed Need
A discrepancy between what one group has and what another group, with similar characteristics, has.
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Comparative Need
It is present when two groups with similar characteristics do not receive a similar service.
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Comparative Need
Some of the information gathered during the needs assessment may be able to be used as what data?
baseline data
It describe the situation or condition at the time the project or intervention starts.
baseline data
Any aspect of behavior, society or the environment that are directly linked to the health problem. (steps)
Step 3. Identify risk factors and set the goal for the project
It lead to or directly cause the problem.
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Step 3. Identify risk factors and set the goal for the project
Any aspects of behavior, society or the environment that leads to the risk factors developing.
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Step 4: Determine contributing factors and state objectives for the project
It enable or reinforce the risk factors.
Step 4: Determine contributing factors and state objectives for the project
They can relate to individual, financial, political, educational, environmental, or other issues.
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Step 4: Determine contributing factors and state the objective for the project
After the objectives are developed, the strategies are determined.
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Step 5: Determine what strategies will be
Strategies describe what it is that the project team will do to try and make the changes required to achieve the objectives.
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Step 5: Determine what strategies will be
Relationship between the goal, objectives and
strategies.
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Step 5: Determine what strategies will be
The process for planning a project begins with the big picture (issue of problem). It is an analysis of the big picture issue that gives the framework for developing the plan- from the longer term goal, to more specific objectives, down to the actual strategies, and finally the detail of individual actions.
Step 5: Determine what strategies will be
Once the strategies of the project are determined, the project team can write the action plan.
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Step 6: Develop the action plan
The action plan includes all the specific activities, large and small, that will need to be done to implement each of these activities, when they will be completed and how they will be evaluated.
Step 6: Develop the action plan
The more detail that is worked out for strategies, the easier it will be to accurately identify all the activities to be done.
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Step 6: Develop the action plan
If the project is large, with many stages, it may not be possible to detail all the specific activities at the beginning of the project.
Step 6: Develop the action plan
It is also important for maintaining accountability within the team and between the team and the community or funding agency.
Detailed documentation — Step 6: Develop the action plan
It will also list the resources required to do the project successfully.
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Step 6: Develop the action plan
Resources will be required throughout the whole project, from needs assessment through putting strategies into action to final report writing.
Step 6: Develop the action plan
Resources can include human resources, financial resources, materials, equipment and venues, dates.
Step 6: Develop the action plan
Planning for sustainability means thinking of ways to keep the project (or important parts
of it) going after its official end.
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Step 7: Sustain the project
It then becomes an ongoing part of community activity.
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Step 7: Sustain the project
Many factors can threaten sustainability of the project.
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Step 7: Sustain the project
Project teams need to be on the lookout for these factors and have a plan for dealing with them. Sustainability needs to be considered from the initial planning stages of a project.
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Step 7: Sustain the project
Evaluating a project is about looking critically at what is happening in the project and making a judgment about its value, worth or benefit (see the word value in evaluate).
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Step 8: Evaluate the project
