Outreach Evaluation Series: Community Assessment

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Outreach Evaluation SeriesCommunity Assessment

• National Network of Libraries of Medicine
• Pacific Southwest Region
• June 2009

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Instructors

• Alan Carr
• Outreach Coordinator
• NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region
• Los Angeles, CA
• Sue Yasharpour
• Community-Based Outreach Coordinator
• NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region
• Los Angeles, CA

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Objectives

• By the end of the three sessions, participants
  will be able to
• Describe the goals of a community assessment
• Identify methods for gathering information from
  local participants and stakeholders to better
  plan an outreach project
• Collect community assessment data for proposal
  writing

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This Class Uses Booklet 1
http//nnlm.gov/evaluation/booklets/
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SESSION 1COLLECTING INFORMATION

• June 2009

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What is Community Assessment?
Building a picture of a community
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Why Do Community Assessment?

• Investigate whether your project is necessary and
  viable
• Convince stakeholders of the need for your
  project
• Make decisions about how to conduct your program
• Find resources and community partners for your
  outreach project

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What Information to Collect
What is available in public documents
What key informants know
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Today The Puzzles Edges
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Phase 1 Inventory What You Know
What you already know
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Inventory What You Know

• Do team brainstorming
• Identify issues, problems or behaviors of
  interest to you
• Identify information needs
• Identify community needs
• Identify resources as well as needs

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Phase 2 Working With Existing Data
What is available in public documents
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What Existing Data?

• Statistics and other facts about characteristics
  of the community
• Public resources
• on the web
• in print (journals, newspapers, books)
• in public documents

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One Portal to Existing Data
Partners in Information Access for the Public
Health Workforce http//phpartners.org
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Community Assessment
Yakima County, Washington
What do you know from this profile?
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Snapshot of Yakima County
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Yakima County
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HomeworkCreate a profile of your county
without leaving your desk

• Exercise 1