Evaluation Report On Hennepin County Community Works

This paper focuses on an in depth community assessment of the past, present, and future of Shelby, Mississippi. Shelby was once a banner cotton center of Bolivar County. Shelby residents were once referred to as some of the most hospitable and happy people in the state. Shelby, Mississippi was also considered as one of the wealthiest towns per capita of the entire Mississippi Delta. Throughout the years, Shelby has changed from being a place of prosperity to a place needing revitalization. Many businesses have opened and closed in Shelby. Community development in Shelby would allow the town to compete with other small towns in the Mississippi Delta.

If I were Holbrook my initial goal would be to correct the water and sanitary sewer systems problem. I believe it is the community responsibility to pay for the up-keep and maintenance of the two facilities, because it is the community who is reaping the benefits of these facilities.

The community I decided to research and compose this paper is one from which I live, Kent County Michigan. I gathered data from several different resources such as the Kent County Health Department and Michigan Department of Community Health in order to create a community assessment. The data I collected can be broken down into four different assessment pieces.

Eof fathers with children in the United States were single fathers. Indeed, 62% of children living in Berks County are affected by poverty (Catlin, Jovaag, & Van Dijik Willems, 2015).

The DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative (DCPNI) draws upon promising practices from a national body of work that suggest that dual-generation programming is an effective strategy for breaking the cycle of poverty. Specifically, two-generation strategies that suggest integrating education, employment opportunities, and peer support for parents and academic and support services for their children will produce far more promising outcomes for both the parents and their child.

Upon a $28 million renovation project, the State Street Elementary building is currently one of the most state of the art school buildings within Northeastern PA. Ironically, this two-story building stands in the shape of a “W” and houses nearly 1,200 students and houses kindergarten through fifth-grade and is labeled as a large suburban Title I School. Intricately, it provides full-day usage-space to the Luzerne County Head Start Program that offers services to the future students of State Street Elementary, which is a county wide support system for low income children. Although the building has only been around a few short years, it consists of historically underperforming and economically disadvantaged

The Promise zone initiative is designed to redevelop high poverty dominated areas through inclusive, evidence- based strategies and helping local leaders take the helm of federal funding. Due to disinvestment and poor policy implementation that isolated poor, have contributed to areas of concentrated poverty all over the country. The Promise Zones initiative will revitalize high poverty communities across the country by attracting private investment, providing affordable housing, creating educational opportunities, providing tax incentives for hiring workers and reducing violent crime, and supporting local leaders in navigating federal programs. The economic nature of this policy is allocation of services and redistributing

A stronger sense of community connectedness can address certain quality of life issues within communities, and potentially Osceola County (Boyd & Peters, 2009). Osceola County’s poverty level is higher that both the State of Florida and the county. Osceola’s poverty level is over 20%, where Florida stands at 17%, and the United States at roughly 14% according to the United States Census Bureau. Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) could be an answer to reducing poverty and

We decided to focus our community assessment in Dallas County (see Appendix C for the community map) because poverty in this area is a rising epidemic. According to Mayor Mike Rawlings, “the gap between the haves and the have-nots is still too wide, we must close the gap”. Dallas is home to a variety of races and ethnicities, but it is the Hispanic and the African Americans that poverty has effected the most with the rate increasing by 42% over a span of 15 years (Dallas City Hall, September 7, 2016). Our focus was more on South Central and Southeast Dallas spanning across Districts 5, 7, and 8 because of the significant increase in poverty in these areas. In Dallas, “almost 1 in 3 Hispanics and African Americans

The purpose of this community assessment was to identify the strengths and weaknesses using objective and subjective data on the community of North Judson, Indiana. This community assessment provides the foundation for improving and promoting the health of a community. The assessment identifies and describes factors that affect the health of a population, and factors that determine the availability of resources in the community to adequately address health concerns We used there vital statistics to determine the potential issues that this community faces and may face in the future. We used the information collected in a variety of different ways, such as through windshield survey, interview with the community residents, local police, firemen, school nurse and administrative assistant, town council members, internet databases and website and statistics to determine the community strengths, weaknesses and

I have spent copious amounts of time in communities stricken with low socioeconomic statuses, less fortunate than the usual neighborhoods I see in Pikesville. The experiences has engrained a strong moral compass into me, leading me to have a solid goal; of beautifying and bettering areas of destitute.

Dane County have services for the needy. There are many Food pantries in the community, some food pantries are run by churches. There are also many charitable organizations in Dane, providing food, clinical services and other needs.

Alicia funding proposal is short and to the point. It is a reasonable expectation that an agency be able to explain what it has done with the money, besides spend it, and explain what the public can expect to receive from the planned operations of the agency in the upcoming year (Mikesell, 2017, pg. 111). Alicia’s description of Community Strong is excellent. She thoroughly describes what the public can expect from Community Strong. Her non-profit agency will have a prominent presence in Columbus, reduce crime, and provide additional safety and security to Columbus residents. Her Community liaison officers will patrol areas by foot and bicycle from the hours of 5 pm to 10 pm and 10 pm to 6:30 am. Her liaison officers will

During this summer, I had the opportunity to intern at a local Community Development Corporation. The Monroe-Union County CDC focuses on helping low-income families buy, save, and fix homes. During this internship, I gained two things, experience and a desire to help the community.

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