Explain how the administrator has seen community needs

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Assignment:

1. Review your course announcements for possible information related to this week's Discussion and Assignment.

2. Review the example news articles in the Learning Resources.

3. Search for a local news article in which a community need is identified and addressed in your own community. Consider how information was gathered and assessed related to the community need.

Summarize the local news article and describe the means of information gathering and assessment. Using your article as an example, explain why understanding the community in this way is valuable to human services professional practitioners. Finally, explain what you learned about your own community by reading the article. Provide a link to the news article so your colleagues can access it if they would like.

AmeriCorps Service Resources. (2018, June 21). Five steps to assessing community needs. Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 15 minutes.
Eschenfelder, B. E. (2010). Using community-based needs assessments to strengthen nonprofit-government collaboration and service delivery.Links to an external site. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 32(4), 405-446.
Read pages 405-411 for a description of community assessment.
Ohio State University Extension. (n.d.). Community assessment.

Example News Articles

Holve, E. (2020, October 13). Punishing the homeless doesn't solve the problem, compassion does. The Orion.
Jenco, M. (2020, June 3). Study: COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated hardships for low-income, minority families. AAP News.

PART 2 Submit a 2 page report in which you describe what you learned through your interview about the readiness of human services organizations to adapt to increased community need. Specifically:

Identify the organization and its purpose.
Explain how the administrator has seen community needs and service users change over time and the extent to which the organization has adapted. Provide specific examples.
Describe the root causes/problems in the community that the organization aims to improve and how.
Describe barriers the organization has faced when attempting to address these problems.
Provide your own conclusions about human services organizations' ability to adapt to increased community need.

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