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Topic Pages:
Needs assessment
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Tools
- Southern Region Information Toolkit
Provides a wide variety of economic, demographic and social indicators that can be used by organizations and agencies at the local, state and regional levels.
Sponsoring organization: Southern Rural Development Center
Publications
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Blueprint for the Rural South
Describes the goals to strengthen the capacity of the region’s 29 land-grant institutions to address critical contemporary rural development issues impacting the well-being of people and communities in the rural South.
Author(s): Lionel J. Beaulieu
Sponsoring organization: Southern Rural Development Center
Date: 07 / 2007
Format: PDF
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Community Assessment, Agenda Setting, and Choice of Broad Strategies
Contains information about how to assess community needs and resources (e.g. conducting listening sessions, analyzing problems) how to get issues on the public agenda (e.g., gaining public support), and how to choose broad strategies to promote community health and development (e.g., building coalitions).
Format: HTML
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Hispanic Health Needs Assessment
Provides communities with tools to self-identify critical health issues and priorities through existing public health data systems as well as community surveys. Written for Hispanic communities, it could be adaptable to other minority communities.
Date: 2001
Format: PDF
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Planned Approach to Community Health (PATCH) Guide
A model for planning, conducting, and evaluating community health promotion and disease prevention programs.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Format: PDF
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