Community Toolkit: Resources for Assessing Community Needs

Assessing specific community needs is an important first step in identifying which local practices will provide the strongest opportunity for collaboration. The Community Tool Box is a web-based public resource made available by the University of Kansas that can help in this step. It offers numerous resource materials to help build healthy communities. Click on the link above to browse this site, or choose a direct link from the list below.

• Create and maintain coalitions and partnerships
• Assess community needs and resources
• Analyze problems and goals
• Develop a framework or model of change
• Develop strategic and action plans
• Build leadership
• Develop an intervention
• Increase participation and membership
• Enhance cultural competence
• Advocate for change
• Influence policy development
• Evaluate the initiative
• Implement a social marketing effort
• Write a grant application for funding
• Sustain the work or initiative

The purpose of these resources is to help in the development of skills necessary for creating partnerships that support community-based efforts for health promotion and chronic disease management. Once you feel prepared to approach a healthcare practice, you may still need help in finding one.

Please feel free to utilize any or all the resources available in this Toolkit. Additional valuable help can be obtained by contacting our partner, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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