Community Strategic Plan: Part A, Community Assessment

For this assignment, identify an area of focus in community health within your own community.

Using Gordon’s 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 (1–2
  paragraphs).
• Refer
  to Table 8-3: Examples of Community Strengths and Concerns, and assess
  the strengths and concerns of your community (2–3 paragraphs).
• Identify
  potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your
  community and brainstorm ways of addressing these barriers (2–3
  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 week’s assignment so that you can begin framing your
chosen community health focus.

Your paper should be 2–3 pages in length, not including the cover and reference pages. Use APA throughout.

You must include 2–3 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.

https://vsaccess.vitalsource.com/#/books/978-0-323… link for framework

https://vsaccess.vitalsource.com/#/books/978-0-323… link for Table 8-3: Examples of Community Strengths and Concerns