Five Steps to Community Assessment - AED Center for Early Care ...

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICESADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES370 L’Enfant Promenade, S.W.Washington, D.C. 20447Dear Colleagues,We are pleased to share with you this workbook on Five Steps to Community Assessment forAmerican Indian/Alaska Native Head Start Programs. As community assessment is a keycomponent of program planning, we hope you will utilize this tool to conduct a meaningfulassessment and then develop corresponding goals and objectives that correspond tothe individual needs, strengths, and resources of your community.We hope that this step-by-step, user-friendly resource will guide you through the courseof planning, designing, and gathering your assessment information, and then assist you inthe process of analyzing your data and utilizing your results to make important programmaticdecisions.As a good community assessment is essential to quality program planning and successfulprogram implementation, we encourage you to make full use of this workbook andcontinually improve your programs to benefit American Indian/Alaska Native childrenand families.Sincerely,Georgeline SparksBranch ChiefAmerican Indian-Alaska NativeProgram BranchAmanda BryansDirector of Program OperationsOffice of Head Start© AI-TAN/AED 2006. Permission to copy granted for non-commercial uses only