Community Assessment And Project Goal

This paper will conduct a community assessment of Marion County, Indiana. Marion County is located in the heart of Indianapolis, which is the capital of the state of Indiana. Marion County was created April 1, 1822 and was formed from Delaware New Purchase. It was named after General Frances Marion from South Carolina in the Revolutionary War period. This assessment will address the health needs and risks of Marion County through the use of the WGU assessment forms identifying the population’s economic status, neighborhood and community safety inventory, cultural assessment, and the disaster assessment and planning guide.

Crawford County, Kansas is very familiar to me; it is where I was born and raised and now, as an adult, it is where I work as a nurse. Barriers to healthcare exists in every community. There is a high amount of poverty in Crawford County that contributes to barriers to access to healthcare. Furthermore, Crawford County has several stakeholders that influence the health of the community and advanced practice registered nurse (ARNP) practice. In this assessment of my community, I will identify Crawford County, as well as prevalent health care barriers and important stakeholders in my community.

The City of Bend, Oregon Government consists of approximately 500 employees across thirteen different divisions. These divisions are Police, Fire, Community Development, Public Works, etc and are all coordinated under the City Manager’s office. Bend’s government style is called a “weak mayor” form of city government, in that the citizens elect a city council, which then elects a mayor from among the council members. The city council and mayor, then hire a City Manager to run the day to day operations of the city. In doing this form of government, the City Manager is not directly accountable to the citizens and can focus on the needs of the city and its employees. At the same time, the City Council can only provide direction to the city manager and is accountable to the citizens. The city employees in this case are led by the city manager as directed by city council. The community leadership environment in this case is established by council to provide direction to the city manager.

I had the pleasure to volunteer with Adopt a Rescue Pet with the most wonderful and passionate people for my civic engagement project. I also had the opportunity to work with the founder of the organization Elizabeth Davis Rubin. Not only did I had the chance to work with Elizabeth, but she also gave me the opportunity to come to her office to talk to her about the organization. I learn many things from this project, I got to see the behind the scenes of an organization and all the challenges they come across. On this small journey I also learn about the opportunities some employers give to their employees. After a casual conversation with my manager to request a Saturday off to be able to volunteer, he mentions The Suited for Service Program. Any employers that work with the Suited

The homeless laboring together in a community garden will achieve this goal. Equally, “A sense of belonging to a grater community improves your motivation, health, and happiness”(Hall). A person striving alongside another within the garden satisfies the need of purpose. Thus helping them toward socializing with others while contributing to everyone’s needs.

When deciding what topic I wanted to write for my Civic Engagement Project, I already had in mind that I wanted something that most of us are not use to seeing nowadays. Many of us compare courts with punishment, but what if there was a court that did the opposite? When I was starting my research on the different courts we have here in Florida, I came across Drug Courts. The more I read up on drug courts, the more I became fascinated and intrigued. Drug courts do not aim to "PUNISH”, but yet to provide treatment to drug abusers. This kind of court believes that everyone deserves a second chance, that extra push. During my research, I was interested in learning a few things. Such things I 'd like to learn about this kind of

The population that I will be focusing on for the Community Needs and Services paper includes those individuals between the ages of 18 and 45 that struggle with opioid addiction who have become involved in the Criminal Justice system. The paper will analyze specifically what demographics constitute the prison population and those who are continuously participating in community supervision under the Justice system who are addicted to opiates or other narcotics. The ability to obtain funding for this population and the resources available while transitioning from a Court room to the community or a prison facility

The Grace City community food care is a not for profit organization that focuses on helping with individuals and families that are struggling and hidden in the shadow of affluence associated with the northern beaches. Grace city care director Mike Irving says “there are so many people under the surface of the beaches who are struggling, these are the people that we often aren’t thinking about” in a response as to what type of people come through community food care Amiee Wang said “all sorts, Islanders, Tibetans, Caucasians, young, old, lonely, fragile, those with immediate acute needs and those with ongoing needs. It’s amazing that in a so-called well to do part of Sydney there is so much need driven to a large degree by high cost of living; housing and rentals. We have over 300 registered customers now. Each week we see over 70 of them and there

Being homeless brings the challenges of eating nutritionally and at regular intervals. Thus, food poverty (Jenkins, 2014), food insecurity (Martins et al., 2015), health risks, chronic health conditions, and obesity as an adaptive response (Koh, Hoy, O’Connell, & Montgomery, 2012) to the aforementioned, are the priorities of my future academic work. My immediate goals then, are to ensure that food donations, for disbursement and preparation purposes, meet the recommendations provided by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture, n.d.) as to decrease health discrepancies, the rates of incidence and prevalence of chronic diseases (specifically Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Hypertension) and other health risks like dental caries. The objectives to reach these goals are: educational workshops focusing on nutritional guidelines (Hamm, 2010) for applicable agencies, churches, pantries and soup kitchens, and homeless

    Sentinel City is a large community with a population of 634,265, which is comparable to Las Vegas, Nevada’s population of 632,912, (2016 Census).  There are many different ethnic groups within the community.  The white population makes up 80.6%, black makes up 10.4%, Indian makes up 2% and Asian makes up 3.7%, with two or more races making up 3.1%.  Within, Sentinel City , there are four different communities.  Nightingale Square that has a population of 103,974, Acer Tech Center has a population of 168,390, Casper Park District has a population of 352,643, and Industrial Heights has the lowest population of 38,855.

The communities always have meals ready to go for everybody. They have three meals a day and everybody meets in their community. “No one in the community was starving, had been starving, would be starving (Lowry 110).” This is when Jonas gets in

Housing is one of the essential needs in society. As a social determinant of health, housing can have significant impacts on a person health and wellbeing. Access to safe, quality and affordable housing, and local services are all important in order for increased health and stability. However due to factors such as the condition and location of home and housing affordability, healthy homes are out of reach for many families leading to poor health. Location of housing, particularly within rural and remote areas, limits access to nutritious food, clean drinking water, electricity and sewerage services. Within many disadvantaged communities, food outlets selling affordable and fresh nutritious food are often limited with fast food outlets often

Theoretically, community needs assessments are a great way to identify gaps within communities and improving the life of individuals within a target group. If there is a collaboration of all three components of the community needs assessment model, Assessment, Dissemination and

This paper serves as an overview and reflection of the community assessment assignment process for the Chinatown presentation team with the community issue of gentrification. There will be an analysis of the team’s performance in regards to strengths and opportunities for growth as well as an outlining how roles and responsibilities were formed including collaboration and communication. Further, since our group presented last, there is an inclusion of the positive aspects of our colleague’s presentations and some suggestions for revision if we were to present again. Additionally, there is personal analysis of my role within the team, areas of personal opportunity for growth, and my role within our group. The end of the reflection paper provides an opportunity for potential application of skills in future social work practice and how I will use the principles of community assessment in future practice. Overall, the process of collaborating with colleagues and the intricacies of assessing a community have prepared me for micro and macro level social work practice in communities of any size.

The overall health of communities consists of a multitude of factors. It is important to understand that no community is alike; the challenges faced by a community are unique to that specific population. In order to uncover specific health needs of our selected community, we conducted a familiarization community assessment, or windshield survey. Upon analysis of our comprehensive assessment data, we concluded that a primary health concern for this community resides within the relatively large elderly population, which is increased risk for hypertension and cardiac disease.