Review the Community Assessment Report Download Community Assessment Reporttemplate. You are expected to format and organize your submission according to this template. Any structural deviation

Week 6 Advice and Sample Report:

As you combine the previous weeks’ information into the final document, pause and think about what should be included. The directions certainly help, but critical thought is also required.  In addition to the notes below, I have also attached an additional final report exemplar that you can utilize.

Example one: In Week 1, 3, and 5, you created an assessment timeline.  Should that be included in your final assessment?  No, it should not.  The timeline you created was for your personal use and to help you stay on track.  It would not be relevant for a stakeholder or external reader.

Example two: You listed the anticipated barriers to engaging with your target audience and exchanged ideas with your peers. Should these concerns be included in your final report? Yes, it should.  Should you include the feedback from peers on your target audience? No, you should not.  The ideal is to take the relevant feedback from peers and develop a more comprehensive list of challenges related to engaging your target audience.

Example three: Many students often receive feedback regarding logistics, detail, and source support.  Are these required to earn an ‘A’ on the final paper?  Yes, that absolutely are required.  If you are pitching that your town needs a park, a senior center, more housing, and so forth then you must provide statistical evidence that it is exactly what your community needs.  Those statistics need to be cited and you need to consider all of the logistics required to help that park, senior center, or housing project to come to fruition.  In a community needs assessment supported details really matter.

Ultimately, the above may seem like common sense, but when you are developing a document like this, especially in a Capstone, the urge is to include everything. Resist that urge and continue to think critically about the audience and the purpose of the assessment.  This is a final assessment report so the content presented should be in the appropriate tense throughout.  Past tense for what has been done, present tense for what is being done, and future tense for what can be done. 

Final Community Assessment Report[WLO: 2] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4] | Prepare

• Review Chapter 25: Section 2. Promoting Regular Community Assessment, Reporting, and AccountabilityLinks to an external site..https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/implement/changing-policies/assessment-reporting-accountability/main
• Review pp. 39–44 of the Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE): Building a Foundation of Knowledge to Prioritize Community Needs Download Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE): Building a Foundation of Knowledge to Prioritize Community Needs[Action guide].https://www.mediafire.com/file/ifvu8gvloaxxznr/Community+Health+Assessment+and+Group+Evaluation_CHANGE_Action+Guide.pdf/file
• Review the Community Assessment Report Download Community Assessment Reporttemplate. You are expected to format and organize your submission according to this template. Any structural deviation (altered headings, missing content, etc.) will likely result in deductions. However, the inclusion of graphics and other supportive imagery is encouraged.

You will write a final community assessment report for the concluding experience of the MPH program. While assessment is an ongoing process, the term “final” usually refers to the last report of a funding period or the final report of a specific assessment activity. This paper is a culmination of all the work you have done in your previous discussions and assignments. Much of the work you placed into your previous assignments is directly transferable (with revisions made) to this report. The purpose of this report is to present the findings, conclusions, and recommendations from your particular community assessment, including your proposed action plans for how the identified disparities can be addressed.

For the Final Community Assessment Report, you will develop at least a 30-page paper encompassing the following sections:

• Title Page
• Executive Summary
• Intended Use and Users
• Community Description
• CHANGE Sector Findings
• Data Sources and Methods
• Action Plan
• Results, Conclusions, and Interpretation
• Use, Dissemination, and Sharing Plan
• Tools for Clarity
• References
• Appendix

Title Page

On the title page, present the program name, dates covered, and possibly the basic focus of the evaluation in an easily identifiable format.

Executive Summary

In this section,

• Summarize the assessment, including a community description, evaluation questions, methods used, key findings, and action plans.
  • The executive summary is written after you have completed your assessment and should be placed immediately following the title page. The executive summary is typically 300 words or less and should address the “What,” the “How,” and the “Why It Matters” about your community assessment:
    • The “What” describes your community, how it is perceived, and the support that it provides the population served.
    • The “How” addresses the process of how you completed the assessment. The “How” (or process explanation) helps to highlight to readers that your work was on a shorter timetable than many assessments. It also justifies the use of external sources as primary data sources to add validity to first-hand observations and opinions.
    • The “Why It Matters” (sometimes referred to as the “So What” question) provides the rationale for your community’s needs and how it relates to public health. It is the ability to demonstrate that your community, findings, and proposed action plans can be taken to community stakeholders post-graduation and generate meaningful conversations and possible change.

Intended Use and Users

In this section,

• Describe the community stakeholders, the purpose of the evaluation, and the role stakeholders play in each action plan proposed.
  • Determine the primary intended users (community stakeholders) and their important role in implementing community action plans. Display their appropriate tables.
  • Reiterate the purposes and intended uses of your community assessment.
    • This section fosters transparency about the purposes of the assessment, who will have access to assessment results, and when. It is important to build a market for assessment results from the beginning.

Community Description

In this section,

• Discuss the community of focus, why the community was chosen, the community stakeholders, the community financial table, and the logic models, with descriptions of each.
  • Discuss, in detail, the community of focus, the reason this community was chosen, and how the community assessment was used to identify public health opportunities.
  • List key community stakeholders, community financial tables, and your logic models.
  • Determine the community’s location (urban, rural, mixed suburb) and how this impacts the assessment and public health implementations.
  • Describe, in narrative form, the components included in your action plan logic models.
    • This section leads to a shared understanding of the community and the basis for the assessment focus areas.

CHANGE Sector Findings

This section should focus on the CHANGE sectors by completing the following:

• Share five community areas of need along with a description for the two greatest needs, what efforts were previously made toward those needs, the target audience associated with each need, and the connection between logic models and community needs.
  • Prioritize the areas of need using the information from the previous section, noting your community’s five greatest public health needs. Pay special attention to the two primary needs identified.
  • Explain what your community, county, state, and federal government have done to try and address these two priority needs in your community.
  • Identify your target audience for these top community priorities.
  • Justify why they are the target population.
  • Close with an explanation of how your displayed logic model(s) connect(s) to the two primary needs of your action plans.

Data Sources and Methods

In this section,

• Address why you utilized the methods you did, including data sources and credibility in detail.
  • Explain why you conducted an external community assessment instead of direct contact (this course, time restraints, and similar reasoning is appropriate).
  • Illustrate the data sources utilized and provide a rationale for the selection of methods and credibility of data sources.
  • Critique your data sources and challenges to credibility.
    • Present data in a clear, concise manner to enhance readability and understanding.

Action Plan

In this section,

• Share two complete action plans, one for each of the greatest community needs identified, including budget plans, community stakeholder involvement, a timeline for presenting the plan to achieving success, and potential barriers to it.
  • Present your completed Community Action Plan form for each plan.
  • Present your completed Community Action Plan budget for each plan.
  • Summarize your needed Community Stakeholder involvement for each plan.
  • Determine your Community Action Plan project timeline.
  • Discuss potential barriers for your proposed Community Action Plans and how they will be addressed or overcome.

Results, Conclusions, and Interpretation

In this section,

• Hypothesize anticipated outcomes to each action plan with source support, including recommendations for program improvement and action steps, answers to four likely stakeholder questions, and steps needed for the action plan to become a reality.
  • Hypothesize the anticipated outcomes of your Action Plan using your sources for support.
    • This step deserves due diligence in the writing process as it is often the most critical for stakeholders. The way results are worded helps to ensure that all stakeholder values are respected in the process of determining expected outcomes.
  • Include in the interpretation the anticipated answers to four likely stakeholder questions.
  • Prescribe recommendations and needed steps based on your findings.
    • Typically, four to six actions are needed to implement your Community Action Plan successfully. These can be drawn directly from the “Activity” section in your Community Action Plan form.

Use, Dissemination, and Sharing Plan

The dissemination and sharing of your plan is an important but often neglected section of a community assessment and final report. In this section,

• Share the communication plan table and communication tracking chart.
  • Utilize the provided Use, Dissemination, and Sharing Template Download Use, Dissemination, and Sharing Template.https://www.mediafire.com/file/cjl9vxjdxikkia0/Use,+Dissemination,+and+Sharing+Template.docx/file
  • Explain the table and chart.
    • By including and discussing your Communication Plan table and Communication Tracking chart, you can be certain that stakeholders will understand the processes that remain to your action plan becoming a reality.

Tools for Clarity

In this section,

• Create a table of contents, a list of tables, and figures, a reference page, and an appendix.
  • Include the following:
    • A table of contents
    • A list of tables
    • A list of charts and figures
    • A reference page
    • An appendix to display the tables, figures, and charts you created
  • Ensure your appendices are useful for full-size program logic models, models developed through the evaluation, the historical background, and success stories.
    • The Tools for Clarity element helps to demonstrate the time and organizational effort you have gone to in professionally presenting your assessment.

References

In this section,

• List all of the resources, in APA format, you have utilized throughout the six weeks of this course. A citation cannot exist without a reference. However, references can exist without citations, as they acknowledge you consulted the resource in creating this document.

Appendix

• Display all of the tables, figures, and charts you have created and displayed in the document.

Community Assessment Report

• For additional assistance beyond the Community Assessment Report Download Community Assessment Reporttemplate, consider reviewing the following example evaluation: Clark County, Washington’s Community Needs Assessment Report 2020 ReportLinks to an external site..https://clark.wa.gov/sites/default/files/media/document/2021-11/Community_Needs_Assessment_2020_pages.pdf While the sample is not a mirror of your requirements, you can note the use of imagery and graphics to support tables and content. You can also refer to the Tables, Images, & AppendicesLinks to an external site. document.

The Final Community Assessment Report final project

• must be at least 30 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. resource.
• must include a separate title page with the following in title case:
  • title of paper in bold font
    • Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
  • student’s name
  • name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
  • course name and number
  • instructor’s name
  • due date
• must utilize academic voice. See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
• must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
  • Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
• must use at least eight credible sources in addition to the Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE): Building a Foundation of Knowledge to Prioritize Community Needs Download Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE): Building a Foundation of Knowledge to Prioritize Community Needs[Action guide].
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
  • To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, review this Quick and Easy Library ResearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips