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Define "community needs assessment," and describe its purpose. ☑: an assessment that indicates a gap. It -evaluates health & nutrition status of community -identifies community resources and *community's capacity* to promote the public's health -considers community "wants" It's purpose is to: identify problems and at-risk populations to improve the community's health List reasons why a community nutrition professional would initiate community needs assessment. ☑: -to gain community understanding -to generate new data -to validate research -to obtain funding EXCELLENCE 2 Summarize the process (the steps) involved in conducting a community needs assessment. ☑: 1. define the purpose of the assessment as it relates to a nutrition problem 2. define the parameters of assessment (define "community" and target population) 3. determine what community elements influence the target population 4. determine your goals and objectives 5. plan for data collection 6. collect data about your community Summarize questions to ask related to planning assessment data collection methods. ☑: What data or info will you collect about your community? -purpose of info? (what do you need to know & what will the info tell you?) -when do you need the info? -what resources do you have for data collection (human or $)? -what are possible sources of info (best methods to collect info, who will collect?) -how much info do you need to collect to meaningfully represent community