24 Apr Planning a Needs Assessment II

SOCW-6311-SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE RESEARCH II
Assignment: Planning a Needs Assessment II
One of the many reasons social workers conduct needs assessment is to provide support for new programs. Social workers have many methods available to collect necessary data for a needs assessment.
Social workers can use existing data from a wide range of sources, including local and national reports by government and nonprofit agencies, as well as computerized mapping resources. Social workers can gather new data through interviews and surveys with individuals and focus groups. This data can provide the evidence that supports the need for the program.
To prepare for this Assignment, review the needs assessment plans that you and your classmates generated for this week’s Discussion. Also, review the logic models that you created in Week 7 and any literature on needs of caregivers that you used to generate them. Consider the following to stimulate your thinking:
• Getting information about the needs of the target population:
o Who would informants be?
o What is your purpose for interacting with them?
o What questions would you ask?
o What method would you use (interview, focus group, questionnaire)?
• Finding potential clients:
o Who would informants be?
o What is your purpose for interacting with them?
o What questions would you ask?
o What method would you use?
• Interacting with the target population:
o Who would informants be?
o What is your purpose for interacting with them?
o What questions would you ask?
o What method would you use?

Be sure to support your responses with specific references to the resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references both within the text and on the referencing section. PLEASE ALWAYS INCLUDE THE REQIRED TEXTBOOK as part of the references and if possible some of the REQUIRED READING if applicable. Please always start by referring to THE TEXTBOOK, below
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK
Social Work Evaluation: Enhancing What We Do 3RD 20
Author: Dudley, James R.
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-091665-7
ISBN-10: 0-19-091665-6
Edition/Copyright: 3RD 20
Publisher: Lyceum Books, Inc.

Learning Resources

Required Readings
Dudley, J. R. (2020). Social work evaluation: Enhancing what we do (3rd ed.) Oxford University Press.
• (For review) Chapter 6, “Needs Assessment” (pp. 115–143)
• Chapter 7, “Crafting Goals and Objectives” (pp. 149–168)

Document: Tutty, L. M., & Rothery, M. A. (2010). Needs assessments. In B. Thyer (Ed.), The handbook of social work research methods (2nd ed.,pp. 149–162). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (PDF)
Copyright 2010 by Sage Publications, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc. via the Copyright Clearance Center.

Optional Resources
Stewart, K. E., Phillips, M. M., Walker, J. F., Harvey, S. A., & Porter, A. (2011). Social services utilization and need among a community sample of persons living with HIV in the rural south. AIDS Care, 23(3), 340–347.
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.