• Gather and Collect key information from and about the target audience/s. • Synthesized and analyzed all assembled data. • Implement the assessment using the selected tool/s and analyzed the data and results. • Prepare a report detailing the result and use the report to determine the appropriate community intervention/s or program. • Assets mapping • Consultation • Test and Direct Observations • Identify Existing Community Resources • Survey • Interviews • Focus Group • Secondary Data Analysis Steps Involved in Conducting a Community Needs Assessment,
• Identify the population to be surveyed and select a random sample of persons to survey. • Determine the information that is needed. • Conduct a review of past and current programs and activities. • Select a community needs assessment tool/s. • Identify the goals of the needs assessment. • Form and established a needs assessment committee or team to solicit citizens and community involvement and develop a plan of action. • Determined the community to be assessed and list important issues to be addressed. • Identify the population to be surveyed and select a random sample of persons to survey. Importance of Needs Assessment, • Give citizens a voice in determining policy, goals, and priorities. • Determine citizens’ support for initiatives. • Evaluate current programs and policies. • End speculation about “what people are thinking” or “what people really want.” Objectives of the Community Needs Assessment • To understand the meaning of needs assessment. • Learned the various step to follow in assessing the needs of the adopted barangays/ community. • Appreciate the relevance of needs assessment before making an action plan for the barangay/community. • Develop needs assessment tools that will be used for assessing the needs of the barangays/community. Community Needs Assessment- This session focuses on the needs of the individual or a group of individuals in order to design a program that will respond effectively top the needs and bring about the desired changes in behavior. Concepts and Principles of Community Immersion - This session focuses on the relevance of NSTP through a community immersion project. Appreciate the value of conducting an immersion program in barangay and institute. Simple Ways To Help Our Community During Covid-19 Pandemic • Think of others • Connect and reach out • Make the most of local online groups • Share accurate information and device Objectives of Concepts and Principles of Community Immersion,
• Realize of understanding the dynamics of a community
• Community immersion as a way to realize the objectives of NSTP • Practice the standard operating procedures • Established protocols governing community immersion
Gain of NSTP-CWTS Students from Community Immersion
• Opportunity for the trainees to comprehend people’s lives because of the change given to them to see real-life situations, live, identify, and associate with the people therein; • Gain social acceptance derived from community relations coupled with the right to offer services. • Enhance experiences in conducting asset mapping such as identifying geographic coverage, pointing out resource and their use; • Established rapport and relations with different people who may be of help to them at some future time.
Forms of Integration in Community immersion,
• home visits • Living with selected families preferably with individuals or groups. • Sharing in household and community activities. • Cooking with the community host clean-up drive
Elements of a Community
• Demographics • Economy and Structures • Culture • History Trainees - undergo certain changes like an increase in knowledge about the social realities, development of good values, empathy towards other people, and improvement of social skills among others
- immerse in actual community life to get to know the social, political, and economical situation of the people
Community immersion - is an essential strategy in community organizing work that entails an
understanding of the different community concerns, processes, dynamics lifestyles through exposure to and engaging in different activities.
Arlien Johnson - “community refers to a group of people gathered together in any geographic area, large or small, who have a common interest, actual or potentially recognized in the social welfare field.”?
Survey - It is a general view, examination, or description of someone or something.
Report - t is the summary of the information gathered in the neighborhood.
Community Needs Assessment
- is the first step in designing and developing an effective community project or program. It is both a process and a method. As a process, it can build leadership, group unity, and a sense of local involvement in the community. It is a process used to determine the needs of individuals or a group of individuals in order to design a program that will response effectively top the needs and bring about desired changes in behavior.
- It focuses on the needs of the individual or a group of individuals in order to design a program that will respond effectively to the needs and bring about the desired changes in behavior - A process, it can build leadership, group unity, and a sense of local involvement in the community. As a method, this is a tool that helps a community plan for the implementation strategies
Identify - One of the steps in conducting a community needs assessment which focuses on finding potential solutions and areas for growth.
Generate - The third and final step in conducting a community needs assessment.
Interview - It is a meeting at which information is obtained.
Focus Group - It is a demographically diverse group of people assembled to participate in a guided
discussion about a particular product before it is launched
Secondary Data Analysis - Refers to the use of existing research data to find answers to a question that was different from the original work.
Assets mapping - Creating a map of the resources and skills of individuals, groups, and organizations within a pre-defined boundary.
Action Plan- A proposed strategy or course of action.
Strategy - A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.
Policy - It is a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual.
Needs - Expressing necessity or obligation in a community.
Community engagement is the process of working collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting the well-being of those people.
It is a powerful vehicle for bringing about environmental and behavioral changes.
Community engagement can take many forms, and partners can include organized groups, agencies, institutions, or individuals.
Collaborators may be engaged in health promotion, research, or policymaking.
CONCEPTS OF COMMUNITY are insights that provide understanding into the process of community engagement.
Some of these are Systems Perspective, Social Perspective, Virtual Perspective, And Individual Perspective.
A community is a social group whose members have something in common, such as a shared government, geographic location, culture, or heritage.
A community can also refer to the physical location where such a group lives.
The community spectrum is informed, consult, involve, engage, collaborate, and empower.
To consult refers to obtaining public feedback on analysis, options, and/or decisions.
Consult refers to seeking opinion or advice.
To inform refers to providing the public with balanced and objective information to assist them in understanding the problem and proposed opportunities and/or solutions.
To be informed is when we say “let’s work together to solve this problem.”
Under community engagement were working with the local institutions
Local government institutions may comprise municipal governments, boards of education, district health boards, and a variety of other special-purpose institutions.
The goal of Community extension service is to empower communities to unleash their potential to impact.
It is also the best alternative way to transfer technology, talents, and resources of the delivering institutions.
Community immersion is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. The important elements of a community are demographics, history, culture, economy, income, and ad structure.
Community engagement serves as the practicum-based element of the NSTP-CWTS where lessons learned and acquired in NSTP 1 are applied.
To collaborate is to work with each other hand in hand.
To Inform is to communicate from one to others.
The 3rd level of community engagement is Empower.
To empower is to inform the community on how to improve their lives.
The 4th level of community engagement is Collaborate.
To collaborate is to work with each other hand in hand.
The last level of community engagement is Empower.
To empower is to place final decision-making in the hands of the public.
The 1st level of community engagement is Inform.
To inform is to provide the public with balanced and objective information to assist them in understanding the problem and proposed opportunities and/or solutions.
The second level of community engagement is Consult.
Consult refers to seeking opinion or advice.
Community organization is a ….process community organization should be based on community
...needs
In the Community organization process the resources can be classified into two…internal and external
the full form of PLA is…Participatory Learning and Action the primary object of community development is to; Promote, Sustain, Support and Maintain
Community Action - is a process forged along people’s empowerment and the essential information of a self-reliant organization that will facilitate development in a sustainable manner…Community Organization
