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Needs Assessment
Presented By Ernest D. Pérez
Capacity Building Assistance Trainer
BORDER HEALTH FOUNDATIONTucson, Arizona
CAPACITY BUILDING ASSISTANCE - MIGRANT PROJECT - FOCUS AREA 2Funded by The Center for Disease Control and Prevention
PRESENTS
May 2009
Training Goal
Provide some “easy-to-grasp” techniques for completing a Needs Assessment to implement, adapt and evaluate evidence-based interventions targeting at risk sexual assault/crime victims.
Training Objectives
By the end of this training, you will gain knowledge on:
•What a Needs Assessment is
•Why Needs Assessments are important
•The six components of a Needs Assessment
•The Nine recommended steps for conducting a Needs Assessment
What is a needs assessment?
It is a process for obtaining information to determine the current status and service needs of a particular population.
When to conduct a Needs Assessment
• Change in funding.• Gaps reported in service.• Services are to be added to a new
geographical area.• When a policy changes.• Existing need for collaboration.• Need for Technical Assistance. • To determine individual needs.
How to elicit information
What are methods utilized for eliciting information?
Purpose and Benefits of a needs assessment
• Assists with forming local-level collaborative partnerships among community stakeholders.
• Promotes a sense of empowerment and ownership.
• Document the communities perception of services provided.
• Reflect the viewpoint of crime victims.
• Assists community in setting priorities.
Importance of a needs assessment
• Looks at effectiveness of services provided.
• Community barriers and gaps as well as strengths.
• Begins the process for collaborations.
• Unmet needs of specific at-risk populations.
• Innovative programs.
Six Components of a Needs Assessment• Epidemiological Profile.
• An Assessment of service needs. • A situational Gap analysis for services available. • A profile of provider capacity and capability.
• Determine unmet needs for at-risk population.
• A gap analysis of services, looking at why they exist and what strategies can be developed to address or implement them.
Why?Because………….
Recommended Steps to conducting a Needs Assessment
Step 1: Determine the problem
• Define and describe your community
• Prioritize
• Think cost
• Laws and regulations
• Availability
How can you determine the problem?
Step 2: Partnering with community.
• Staff needs with team
• Gather local information
• Review resources thoroughly
• Appoint committee
• Build buy-in and responsibility
Mapping your community Observation skills.
Break
Step 3: Assess risk and protective factors.
• Look for trends
• Individual
• Community
• Family
• Environmental
Risk and Protective Factors Closer look at trends in your population
Step 4: Select your indicators.
What is a baseline indicator?
Step 5: Collect your data
• Epidemiological
• Mapping
• Resources
• Committee discussions
Step 6: Analyze Data
• Review data collected and consider possible corrections.
• Report to all involved.
Step 7: Develop a profile
• Develop a profile of risk and protective factors.
• What is the underlying problem.
Step 8: Present your findings.
Officially complete the data and present findings to begin considering a solution.
Step 9: Repeat process
Continually review data and reexamine issues.
Break
Review of needs assessment paperwork
End of Training
Thank You!
eperez@ambhf.org
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