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I am a political consultant in Philadelphia, you can do something along that line.
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A public need is defined as the gap between what is happening now in society and what needs to be happening to ensure the best services, programs, or projects for the
people. The needs assessment process is what we use in the public sector to bridge or fill that gap.
For this discussion, you will describe a public needs assessment that you have worked on as part of your job or in your daily life, or one you are aware of in your
community.
In your post, define and describe the following:
Historical trends that structure public needs assessment planning and planned change.
The need or gap in services, programs, or projects, and when it occurred.
The people who were involved in trying to develop a comprehensive action learning solution.
The scope and success of the action learning solution.
Status of the issue today.
In addition, provide a logic model to illustrate how the needs-based issues can be narrowed down to impact planned change.
Remember to use citations and references as appropriate. Your initial post should be at least 250 words and follow current APA style.
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Using your texts and at least two of the peer-reviewed articles on public needs assessment projects that you located in this unit’s studies, compare the initial
activities each article recommends. How does each manage the issue of having the right representatives at the table to work on the project? Discuss how the initial
activities are determined and which comes first—activities or stakeholder identification? What do you think is the best approach based on what you know today?
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Review the three articles on public needs assessment projects you located in this unit’s studies. Describe and compare the articles in terms of the conceptualization
of community needs assessment projects’ framework for process effectiveness and stakeholder representation.
Analyze the situational analysis framework of the needs and methodology used in measuring the problem concepts. Operationally, define the problem concepts as to which
levels of measurement of the needs can be identified. How indicators of readiness are assessed? How the community and subgroups within it brought up to a state of
readiness?
In your post, include a description of each project, anything that is obvious to you about how they compare and contrast, and who is or could be involved in each
project. Based on what you have learned about these projects, determine whether the right people are involved on each NAC, from both community and government
perspectives? Which appears to be the most successful to you in terms of process (not outcome) and why?
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From the sources you have reviewed to date, including the articles on needs assessment that you located in this unit’s studies, how easy or difficult would it be to
gather accurate information to support the needs assessment process? How does this relate to modeling requirements of the hybrid framework used in public needs
assessment and A/CB processes? What difficulties can you identify in getting consistent and reliable data?
The unit readings brought up the differences between collaborative and cooperative structures. There are advantages and disadvantages to each. Based on your studies
thus far, what types of structure makes the most sense to you for the kinds of public issues that interest you? Please explain your rationale and reasoning for your
selection.
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You have thought about the public sources of information about your action learning needs-based issue, but what about the literature and current stakeholder
information? Using the articles you located in this unit’s study, identify and briefly analyze two other current peer-reviewed sources of community data gathered from
stakeholders that might influence (not support or detract—be objective) your project for this course. You will use this further in a discussion and a later assignment.
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magine you had all the right people in the room and did all of the right data gatherings. However, you did not ask the right action learning questions to gain insights
into stakeholder information that can suggest the acquisition of new programmed knowledge management to shape organizational capacity of service delivery systems? Here
is your chance to think about what you need to know.
Based on the guidelines in your Bridging the Gap Between Asset/Capacity Building and Needs Assessment text, ABC of Action Learning e-book, and other sources you can
cite, what is the action learning questions that you should ask on the assessment planning tools for systems changes to address your community-based problems? What
would you like to know but cannot figure out how to ask? This will build toward your final assignment. List some action learning and assessment planning questions, and
define what you would like to know but do not know how to ask.
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You have viewed the two presentations on Riverbend City’s NAC members analyzing some of the data for use in the needs prioritization and project interview process.
Thus, you now know a lot more about Riverbend City’s public needs assessment project. This is an opportunity to analyze what you understand so far about its SAF.
You will then determine the next steps for the project. Some of the members have very different perspectives on what the SAF data means and some are supportive of
certain needs-based issues. Everyone has their own perspective, areas of expertise, and interests. Reliability and validity of the SAF data also play a role in the
outcome.
As a consultant hired to facilitate this SAF of Riverbend City’s case study exploration, include the following in your analysis:
Select members of the NAC and develop the strategy they should use to make sure the SAF data they are supporting is as accurate and useful as possible.
Are the right people represented on the NAC? Consider who else might be added?
What kinds of data gathering and modeling have been performed already? Provide examples of what makes their data effective and informative for the needs prioritization
process.
Write a script defending and explaining the data use to other NAC members. Remember to use the voices of other committee members to ask your selected member questions
to carry the discussion along.
Discuss the next steps in the data gathering process.
You will want to consider focus groups and interviewing techniques, participants, possible access barriers to people or information, and any other aspects that you
think might trip up the project. Remember, you are the consultant hired to facilitate this, so be creative.
Response Guidelines
Assess the logic and rationale represented in the scripts of at least one peer, comparing the ideas and solutions to your own. What did he or she present that allows
the project to take a new and better direction? How has this changed your own thinking? What other arguments could be made for the data used? What other pitfalls do
you see in the use of data? Be supportive and constructive in your feedback.
