Lesson 2

Activity 1: Conducting a Needs Assessment

Based on what you have learned about conducting a needs assessment, and the community you have determined to use, design a needs assessment survey. Use the checklist to help focus your survey.

Activity 2: Determine who will complete the survey and how it will be conducted. Your team will carry out the survey with the identified population. Be sure that the population is appropriate for the survey and for the assessment that the chosen community needs.

Activity 3: Conducting Focus Groups

Together develop standardized interview questions to use with focus groups to determine needs of the community. Use the checklist and examples to help focus your discussion.

Be sure that the focus group questions are relevant to the problem and audience.

Project Assignment:

Conduct a needs assessment of a chosen community (may be local, a city, or even a state). The needs assessment should be thorough and follow the guide in the Community Tool Box

It should also include a survey of a minimum of 20 participants in the targeted audience and a focus group.

Answer preview

A community health needs assessment (CHNA) is a procedural mechanism utilized to examine a specified population’s health patterns. Its utility emanates from the fact that people with shared characteristics, practices, or even the same location are affected by similar health factors. Therefore, such an assessment…

 

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