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The document discusses assessing community needs and dynamics. It provides steps for collecting community information, including determining data sources and identifying gaps. Criteria for identifying problems include frequency, duration, scope, and severity. Analyzing problems allows for better identification and understanding to effectively address issues.

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Community Needs Assessment

The document discusses assessing community needs and dynamics. It provides steps for collecting community information, including determining data sources and identifying gaps. Criteria for identifying problems include frequency, duration, scope, and severity. Analyzing problems allows for better identification and understanding to effectively address issues.

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COMMUNITY

NEEDS
ASSESSMENT
DYNAMICS IN THE
COMMUNITY
Introduction
 The school-community relations constitute a vital function area in the
educational system. The concerns of school administrators should not be
limited only within the four corners of the school campus; it should be
extended to the community. Close school-community relations must be
established and maintained in order to make the school more serviceable
and responsive to the needs of the community and to draw the community
to the school. The school is the extension of the community and vice-
versa.
Dynamics in the community should be taken
into consideration considering the fact that
today's society is beset with so many
problems.
They may be spiritual, economic and
political problems, all of which are but
symptoms of a much deeper problem - a
problem anchored in the mind and in the
hearts of the Filipino people.
The community can achieve its goals if
it could:

1. develop the skills of the constituents;

2. understand the rights and duties of a citizen in a democratic


society, to be diligent and competent in the performance of their
obligation as members of the community and citizens of the
nation; and

3. develop and maintain good health and physical fitness.


Assessment of Community
Needs
Assessment of community needs is a process
of identifying the strength and resources
available to meet the needs in the community,
more on children, youth and families
(childwelfare.gov., Ret. Sept.. 4, 2014).
Reasons for Collecting Information about
the Problem
 Gathering information is the most important phase in
doing a research. The following are important
considerations research work:

1. Knowledge. The facts and statistics in determining the


size of the gap between your vision of a healthy
community against the reality in the place you are
undertaking outreach program should be known.
 2.Credibility counts. A credible person is
knowledgeable, serious and well-organized. It can be
noticed even in a casual conversation while assessing the
exact number of people affected by the issues at hand.
 3.Awareness leads to change. You can raise the
community's awareness of a number of things through the
use of statistics, how serious the problem is, how
good/poor your community is doing in relation to other
communities.
Steps in Collecting Information
 1. Awareness on the importance and purpose of the information
to be collected - This pertains to the reasons for collecting the
data.
 2. Determine when you want to use the data.
There are two decisions to make when gathering the data:
a. When to get the information, now or on a scheduled date
b. When you want to make the information public -
announcement of the information in public.
 3. Determine exactly what you want to know - Is it
statistics; life stories, issues, incidence rate, etc.?
 4.Determine who will find the information - Person
assigned to get the information - you, staff member,
volunteer?
 5. Identify possible sources of information - a person, or
place where you can get the information.
 6.Set limits to how much information you want to
collect - Just collect the needed
 7.Collect the data - gather information from reliable
sources.
 8.Identify gaps in your knowledge - After collecting the
data, determine which one you need.
 9.Repeat the process to fill those gaps or collect your own
data - Since you have already identified what information
you still need to find, you have two choices, either do the
process again or collect your own data.
 10.Compare the data of your community with another
community.
Criteria in Identifying Community
Problems
 There are some criteria you may consider when identifying community
problems rather than aim for a complete problem list. These are:
 1. The problem occurs (the frequency)
 2. The duration of the problem (did it last for a while?)
 3. The scope or range (how many people are affected?).
 4. The severity of the problem (the intense of the effect).
 5. The equity (how many are deprived of legal or moral rights?).
 6. The perception (how problem is perceived?)
Reasons why Community Problems have to be
Analyzed
 The following are reasons why there is a need to analyze a community problem:
 1. To better identify the problem or issue.
For you to be able to identify the solution to the problem, you have to know what the problem is all about.
 2. To understand the main reason of a problem.
Be able to know the cause of a problem.
 3. To determine the barriers and resources associated with addressing the problem.
An NSTP student in a community outreach program shall immediately be aware of the obstacles in addressing
the problem and be able to know the resources they need for the community.
 4. To develop the best remedy for addressing the problem.
How to Analyze a Community Problem

The primordial concer of analyzing the community problem is to understand


the problem better and to handle it more effectively, so the method you use
could help you accomplish the goal.
 1. Justify the choice of the problem - Consider the criteria when
identifying the problem. Ask yourself if you can address the problem
through help from your NSTP colleagues.
 2.Frame the problem - Be objective in stating the problem without
implying a solution.

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