Using the Kirst-Ashman & Hull text and presentation, each student will complete a 3-5 page Community Needs Assessment of their local community. The purpose of this assessment will be used to gather local data about your community, identify key challenges that your community faces, identify both causes and contributing factors to these unique challenges, recognize local assets within the existing community to overcome identified challenges, and finally, identify gaps in resources that prevent individuals within the local community from getting the help they need. The needs assessment will need to define the scope and problem, determine what stakeholders to include the local church, will be involved, data to support the needs and findings, and finally, develop an action plan to address the gaps in resources.
