Know Your Community
Know Your Community

Author: Bryan Samuels

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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This guide describes a systematic way of identifying the resources and needs of community residents by gathering data, soliciting the perspectives of residents and leaders, and surveying service providers and other community resources. Part 1 of the guide differentiates community assessment from traditional needs assessments and details the 5-step community assessment process: (1) establishing a community planning team; (2) defining community boundaries; (3) developing a statistical profile, including determining what information to collect, gathering the data, and analyzing the data; (4) assessing needs from residents' perspectives; and (5) assessing community resources through provider surveys, association surveys, consumer surveys, and community mapping. Part 2 deals with sorting through the large body of information to set community priorities, focusing on the use of a community assessment matrix to provide a framework for analysis. Two appendices provide (1) guidelines for developing a resident survey and (2) copies of the surveys and other tools described in the guide. (KB)

Improving the American Community Survey
Improving the American Community Survey

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2019-06-03

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0309490006

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Since its origin 23 years ago as a pilot test conducted in four U.S. counties, the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) has been the focus of continuous research, development, and refinement. The survey cleared critical milestones 14 years ago when it began full-scale operations, including comprehensive nationwide coverage, and 5 years later when the ACS replaced a long-form sample questionnaire in the 2010 census as a source of detailed demographic and socioeconomic information. Throughout that existence and continuing today, ACS research and testing has worked to improve the survey's conduct in the face of challenges ranging from detailed and procedural to the broad and existential. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion at the September 26â€"27, 2018, Workshop on Improving the American Community Survey (ACS), sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau. Workshop participants explored uses of administrative records and third-party data to improve ACS operations and potential for boosting respondent participation through improved communication.

Community Psychology
Community Psychology

Author: Victoria C. Scott

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2014-12-02

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 1483324249

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Drawing upon the wisdom of experts in the field, this reader-friendly volume explores both foundational competencies and the technical how-to skills needed for engaging in community psychology practice. Each chapter explores a core competency and its application in preventing or amending community problems and issues. With case examples throughout, this text offers a practical introduction to community outreach and intervention in community psychology.

Community Resources
Community Resources

Author: Rulon Kent Wood

Publisher: Educational Technology

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780877781622

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Abstract: Information on educational resources that are available in the community for use by a school program is given for teachers, media specialists, librarians, and administrators. The overall rationale for the text is that the effective use of community resources to support education links factual learning in schools with the real world and life. The guidelines presented: assist the identification of available resources for particular school instructonal settings: give procedures for conducting community surveys and developing a commuity resources file; provide effective methods for planning and conducting community surveys and developing a community resources file; provide effective methods for planning and conducting field trips; and, give procedures for identifying resource persons at the state and national levels. Suggested student project activities are included. A listing of audiovisual media, relative to community resources and their use, is appended. (wz).