Step 2. Assessing the Community’s Needs
Resources
Resources
Assessing Community Needs and Resources, The Community Toolbox. Provides an indepth, step-by-step guide to developing, conducting, and analyzing community needs assessments.
Guide to Conducting a Needs Assessment. Provides a clear, six-step process for developing needs assessments.
Samples From the Pilot Sites
- Community Needs Assessment Plan (PDF, 23 kb)
- Privacy Certificate (PDF, 122 kb)
- Confidentiality Agreement (PDF, 11 kb)
- Consent Forms
- Focus Groups (PDF, 23 kb)
- Focus Groups Attended by Persons With Intellectual Disabilities (PDF, 12 kb)
- Individual Interviews (PDF, 17 kb)
- Individual Interviews of Persons With Intellectual Disabilities (PDF, 12 kb)
- Community Needs Assessment Report (PDF, 15 kb)
- Protocol for Individual Interviews, Focus Groups, and Community Meetings (PDF, 44 kb)
- Script for Setting Up Interviews and Focus Groups (PDF, 19 kb)
- Focus Group and Individual Interview Questions
- Persons With Disabilities (PDF, 12 kb)
- Disability Service Providers (PDF, 12 kb)
- Victim Services Staff (PDF, 13 kb)
- Surveys
- Disability Service Providers (PDF, 13 kb)
- Law Enforcement Staff (PDF, 14 kb)
- Victim and Disability Service Providers and Law Enforcement Staff (PDF, 16 kb)
- Needs Assessment Recruitment Flier: Persons With Disabilities (PDF, 36 kb)