COLUMBIA,MD Justifying Community Needs[WLOs: 1, 2] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3] As a reminder, each week, your assignment will comprise a vital component of your Final Community Stakeholder Presentation and Fina

COLUMBIA,MD

Justifying Community Needs[WLOs: 1, 2] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3]

As a reminder, each week, your assignment will comprise a vital component of your Final Community Stakeholder Presentation and Final Community Assessment Report final projects. As such, you are encouraged to use the feedback you receive each week to make the necessary revisions to make your Week 6 efforts as strong as possible.

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review Action Step 4 in Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE): Building a Foundation of Knowledge to Prioritize Community Needs Download Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE): Building a Foundation of Knowledge to Prioritize Community Needs[Action guide]. While your data collection methods may vary (external vs. engagement), the end goal should be the same. Work to ensure the data presented is as up-to-date and accurate as possible.

Using the data gathered in Week 1 and the information found in your Five CHANGE Sectors assignment, determine and justify your community's greatest needs. Many times, researchers will believe they “know” the greatest needs of their community without looking at the data because they witness it day to day. While first-hand experience is valuable, it should rarely be the only driver for decision-making. It is easy and natural to want to fix what you personally understand as the most troublesome. However, if the data shows that other areas are of greater need, then ethically, those areas should receive your attention. That is the goal for this assignment.

For this assignment, you will prioritize your community's five greatest needs. You will justify these prioritizations using your gathered data and are encouraged to include first-hand observations related to those needs. You will also be asked to explain what efforts have been implemented in your community to address these needs. Further, you will provide real-world examples of interventions or implementations that were successful at addressing the top two community needs identified and which you can use as a template for your efforts. It is not expected that your community has already made significant progress toward these needs, or they would not still exist. So, you are expected to find interventions or implementations nationwide and highlight those that appear the most effective.

In your paper,

• Prioritize the five greatest needs of your community.
• Justify your prioritization by using data supplemented by first-hand accounts or observations for the impact these issues have on the residents.
• Explain your community's top two most significant needs with the greatest explanation and justification.
• Present real-world examples of interventions or implementations that have been successful in mitigating these issues.
• Summarize how you will use these real-world example plans and your participant feedback for your community.

The Justifying Community Needs paper

• must be three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. resource.
• must include a separate title page with the following in title case:
  • title of paper in bold font
    • Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
  • student’s name
  • name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
  • course name and number
  • instructor’s name
  • due date
• must utilize academic voice. See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
• must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
• must use at least three credible sources in addition to the resource Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE): Building a Foundation of Knowledge to Prioritize Community Needs Download Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE): Building a Foundation of Knowledge to Prioritize Community Needs[Action guide].https://www.mediafire.com/file/2dlmyeq066c7pqf/Community+Health+Assessment+and+Group+Evaluation_CHANGE_Action+Guide.pdf/file
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
  • To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Quick and Easy Library ResearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
• must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.
• must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resource in the Writing Center for specifications.

Carefully review the Grading RubricLinks to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.