Week 3 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 8-2: 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.
