Human service develop a community assessment
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This week your required to take the first step in your Community Assessment Project as found in the Community Assessment PDF. This assignment is meant to be a draft. Aim for 2 pages or more double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font. Include references at the end of your paper. You don’t have to have a title page or abstract. You can place your name, date, course/section in the upper right corner of this draft. Don’t worry about headers, but please use topical headers to organize your paper and the key information in the assignment. Below are the assignment instructions:
Step 1: Describe the Scope
Community issues are complicated. One issue is often related to many others, and it is easy to keep expanding the range of issues to include in your community assessment. Let’s look at the following examples:
High school dropout rates are related to homelessness.
Homelessness is related to head-of-household unemployment.
Unemployment can lead to gang involvement.
Gang involvement is related to high school dropout rates.
Gang involvement can be prevented if efforts are targeted at middle school youth.
All of these issues are important. A community assessment can address all of the issues and their interrelationships, or it can focus on just one issue. You may choose!
To explain the scope of your community assessment, you must clearly identify:
The community issue to be assessed.
The impacted community members.
The geographic area to assess.
The key questions you want answered.
The level of detail you want to include in the assessment.
