FRHD 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Needs Assessment

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3070
• Professor: John Dwyer

Document Summary

Approach to identify social problems, determining their extent and accurately defining the target population to be served and the nature of their service needs. Target boundaries: who"s in and who"s out i. e. targeting only females, only lgbtq communities, etc. Needs assessment technique, compilation of services available to one or more target groups. Barriers to service use: availability, awareness, accessibility, acceptability. Analysis of social indicators needs assessment technique: Social indicators: periodic measurements designed to track the course of a social condition over time: prevalence: number of existing cases in a specific region, incidence: number of new cases in a specific region. Community health status reports: look at tables and graphs to see if. Social area analysis analysis of social indicators (geographic matter): there"s a problem in the community that needs intervention: (ave to be careful you don"t associate the stigmatization with an area.