Community Needs Assessment and Proposal
Generally speaking, you will conduct a needs assessment of your community, which will inform the creation of a human services related program proposal that
attempts to address the identified need or problem. This proposal will also include the development of appropriate tools and support materials that would be
used to implement the program and measure outcomes.
Your completed capstone project will be a final paper with several sections and follow this outline:
1. Cover Page
2. Table of Contents
3. Executive Summary
4. Community Needs Assessment (Capstone Component 1)
5. Human Services Program Proposal (Capstone Component 2)
6. Appendices (Appendix A and B)
7. References
8. Appendix: Personal and Professional Reflection (Capstone Component 3)
Capstone Component 1: Community Needs Assessment
For the first of three components, you will choose a local community and conduct an assessment of that community in relation to a social problem. Typically,
this is a community that is somewhat familiar to you and is limited to a city, county, or neighborhood level. For example, if you have identified a problem with
child hunger in your hometown, your assessment should. Seek to uncover how and why this is happening by conducting a review of the literature and collecting. And analyzing data on your chosen community, while also identifying existing resources designed to combat child hunger.
Community Needs Assessment and Proposal
You will not be conducting a full community needs assessment; rather, you will be identifying. Need through a preliminary review of local newspapers or other
relevant sources and talking with other human services professionals who live or work in the area. Your instructor is available to review sources and identify
ways to obtain information and navigate the system. From there, you will research what is out there, what is missing, what others have done to solve the
problem, and so on.
This comprehensive evaluation also presents the opportunity for you to engage the community.,In your evaluation you will be required to
contact appropriate individuals in the community either directly or using the internet or the telephone. To interview them about the problem you have selected.
This does not fully meet the “fieldwork” definition, but it will require you to become involved. With your selected community in some form and engage providers
and consumers.
Your community needs assessment should include the following sections:
I. Overview of Community and Problem: This section should serve as the foundation for presenting your community assessment and is your opportunity
to comprehensively describe the selected community and identified problem. APA