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    Community profiling and needs assessment involve comprehensively understanding the needs, resources, and functioning of a community in order to develop action plans to improve quality of life. A community profile provides a snapshot of the positive and negative elements of the community and how different aspects are interrelated. It involves describing resources, needs, and gaining active community involvement to accurately portray the community. A needs assessment identifies areas for health improvement by examining current policies, systems, and environmental factors and creating strategies for positive change. This includes assessing policy, systems, and environmental changes needed within a community. Planning and conducting a needs assessment requires defining the community to assess, developing assessment tools and questions, determining data collection methods, and identifying key informants.

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    Community profiling and needs assessment involve comprehensively understanding the needs, resources, and functioning of a community in order to develop action plans to improve quality of life. A community profile provides a snapshot of the positive and negative elements of the community and how different aspects are interrelated. It involves describing resources, needs, and gaining active community involvement to accurately portray the community. A needs assessment identifies areas for health improvement by examining current policies, systems, and environmental factors and creating strategies for positive change. This includes assessing policy, systems, and environmental changes needed within a community. Planning and conducting a needs assessment requires defining the community to assess, developing assessment tools and questions, determining data collection methods, and identifying key informants.

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    Community profiling and needs assessment involve comprehensively understanding the needs, resources, and functioning of a community in order to develop action plans to improve quality of life. A community profile provides a snapshot of the positive and negative elements of the community and how different aspects are interrelated. It involves describing resources, needs, and gaining active community involvement to accurately portray the community. A needs assessment identifies areas for health improvement by examining current policies, systems, and environmental factors and creating strategies for positive change. This includes assessing policy, systems, and environmental changes needed within a community. Planning and conducting a needs assessment requires defining the community to assess, developing assessment tools and questions, determining data collection methods, and identifying key informants.

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    Community

    Profiling
    and
    Assessment
    https://news.bahai.org/community-news/youth-conferences/manila.html
    What is community profiling?
    A comprehensive description of the
    needs of a population that is defined,
    or defines itself, as a community, and
    the resources that exist within that
    community, carried out with the active
    involvement of the community itself,
    for the purpose of developing an action
    plan or other means of improving the
    quality of life of the community.
    https://www.ph.undp.org/content/philippines/en/home/ourwork/environmentandenergy/overview.html
    Why do a Community Profile?
    • A comprehensive profile is designed to facilitate effective
    policy initiatives and it should not just provide an
    understanding of the positive and negative elements of a local
    community but also contribute to an understanding of
    people’s behavior and how the community functions.
    (Christakopoulou et al. 2001).
    Elements of A Community
    Profile
    1. Comprehensive
    - How different aspects of the life of the
    community are interrelated
    2. Resources
    - Assets held in the area and put to use for
    the benefit of the community which may
    include housing, hospitals, schools and
    community centers.
    3. Need
    - It is a legitimate basis on which to
    make at least some decisions about
    the allocation of resources.
    4. Active Community Involvement
    - Full cooperation and involvement of
    the community is likely to result in a
    fuller, more comprehensive and
    accurate description of the
    community.
    5. Action Plan
    - To act as catalyst
    for the improvement
    of the quality of life of
    members of the
    community.
    What is a Community Needs
    Assessment?
    A community needs assessment provides
    community organizers with a snapshot of
    local policy, systems, and environmental
    change strategies currently in place and
    helps to identify areas for improvement.
    With this data, communities can map out a
    course for health improvement by creating
    strategies to make positive and sustainable
    changes in their communities.
    Components of a Needs
    Assessment
    1. Policy Change
    2. Systems Change
    3. Environmental Change
    1. Policy Change
    - Involves laws or regulations that are
    designed to guide or influence
    behavior. Policies can be either
    legislative or organizational. Policies
    often mandate environmental
    changes and increase the likelihood
    that they will become
    institutionalized or sustainable.
    Examples of legislative policy include
    taxes on tobacco products.
    2. System Change
    - This involves change that affects all
    community components including
    social norms of an organization,
    institution or system. It may include a
    policy which are often the driving force
    behind systems change. Example is
    ensuring all institutions like school or
    hospital system to become tobacco
    free.
    3. Environmental Change
    This type of change relates to the physical, social, or
    economic factors designed to influence people’s practices
    and behaviors.
    Examples of changes to the environment include:
    Physical: Structural changes like posting of NO SMOKING
    signages in public areas and putting SMOKING AREAS far
    from public places.
    Social: A positive change in behavior about policies that
    includes an increase in favorable attitudes of community
    decision makers about the importance of implementing
    non-smoking policies in public areas.
    Economic: The presence of financial incentives to
    encourage a desired behavior including the provision of
    giving non-smokers BIG discounts on their health
    insurances .
    How To Identify Needs Among Population
    Groups in the Community
    1. Plan for a community needs assessment
    ➢Planning for a community needs assessment is just as critical as
    conducting the actual assessment. You need to ensure you have
    the right people to help out and that you have identified the
    logistics and content of the assessment, what data to collect, how
    to collect the data and from whom.
    2. Define community to assess
    ➢YOU, as the community organizer, should decide on the area
    to assess, you should consider starting with a smaller
    geographic area or segment of the population. It might be
    easier to attain greater impact with a smaller sized community
    than a larger one.
    ➢Identify community sectors to assess(e.g., village or barangay)
    ➢Identify community health components to assess (e.g.,
    education, health, income or nutrition).
    ➢Develop questions to ask. (CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE NEED
    ASSESSMENT TOOL)
    ➢Determine methods for collecting data.
    ➢Select sites.
    ➢Identify key informants to contact.

    Step 3: Conduct the needs assessment


    • For guidance on how to conduct a needs assessment, a good
    example would be, how to prepare for and conduct interviews.

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