Community Assessment

  My community is Tacoma Washington with a homeless population crisis

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. Consider how will this knowledge assist you with your community action plan.

By Day 7

Submit a 4-6 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.
• APA      format 7th addition cite everything in text and full references

resources:

Jansson, B. S. (2018). Becoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice. (8th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning Series.

• Chapter 4, “Understanding the Ecology of Policy in Government, Electoral, Community, and Agency Settings” (pp. 100–140)