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Conducting a Community-Level Needs Assessment Through Dynamic Engagement With Stakeholders

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  • Robin Henrikson
  • Daniel Bishop

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This paper presents the process of conducting a community-wide needs assessment that initially focused on soliciting information about childcare needs of families with school-aged children. The researchers were interested in understanding whether the method designed to conduct the needs assessment helped to foster collaboration, trust, and increased participation amongst multiple levels of stakeholders and subcommunities. Utilizing community-based participatory research principles, the authors will present a 3-phase approach to gaining community support through multiple levels of stakeholder engagement. While initially the needs assessment was focused on childcare, the scope broadened to learning about other needs that families with school-aged children faced. The strategic use of Survey Ambassadors throughout the community who could access families that were typically underrepresented and could provide feedback to the researchers in real time regarding modifications to the process was vital. Lessons learned included the need for further investigation into strategic methods for gaining family voices in underrepresented populations.

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  • Robin Henrikson & Daniel Bishop, 2024. "Conducting a Community-Level Needs Assessment Through Dynamic Engagement With Stakeholders," Evaluation Review, , vol. 48(5), pages 848-864, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:48:y:2024:i:5:p:848-864
    DOI: 10.1177/0193841X231211637
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