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The community that I have selected is Helena, Georgia. It's a small rural community consisting of about 2,300 people located in Telfair County. It is a railroad city with McRae, Georgia. A strength of this community is that the people are willing help one another. A challenge this community faces is drug use, shortage of community activities, and community violence. One can identify this city with abandoned buildings, burnt down homes, vandalism, litter, and damaged streets. I think that more activities or things to do, a playground, community center, and a convenient library in the city will reduce the challenges this city face. Letting the community come together to make this change will make a difference.

Refer to the community you selected for this week's Discussion. Then imagine that you have been assigned to complete a needs assessment and identify potential resources for this community. You elected to interview key informants as one form of assessing this community. Consider who you would contact as a key informant for this community. Finally, think about how you might engage the informant to obtain the community details to complete your needs assessment.

Assignment: (2 page paper in APA format).

Your paper should include the following:

• A description of the community you selected
• A description of the key informants you would contact within that community
• An explanation of why you would contact the key informants you selected
• An explanation of the skills you might use to engage these informants to obtain the community details to complete your needs assessment and explain why you chose those skills.