Community Strategic Plan: Part A, Community Assessment
For this assignment, identify an area of focus in community health within your own community.
Using Gordons Functional Health Patterns framework (p. 130 in your e-text), assess the health risks in your community.
In your community assessment paper, include the following:
- Identify resources in your community that would enable you to complete a community assessment and submit a summary of your findings (12 paragraphs).
- Refer to Table 8-2: Examples of Community Strengths and Concerns, and assess the strengths and concerns of your community (23 paragraphs).
- Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community and brainstorm ways of addressing these barriers (23 paragraphs).
Plan ahead: Next week, as Part B of this assignment, you will select one (1) identified risk from this assessment to develop a community-focused strategic plan to address that health risk. It is recommended that you look ahead to next weeks assignment so that you can begin framing your chosen community health focus.
Your paper should be 3 pages in length, not including the cover and reference pages. Use APA throughout.
You must include 3 sources that are APA cited and referenced in your paper. (Sources may include community resources such as flyers, brochures, interviews, news stories, and local research data from credible sources.)
Review the rubric for further information on how your assignment will be graded.
Rubrics:
The writer clearly and effectively responds to the assignment.
There is one clear, well-focused topic. Main ideas are clear and are well supported by detailed and accurate information.
The introduction is inviting, states the main topic, and provides an overview of the paper. Information is relevant and presented in a logical order. The conclusion is strong.
The assignment consistently follows current APA format and is free from errors in formatting, citation, and references. No grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors. All sources are cited and referenced correctly.