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The goal of the
Community Assessment Training (CAT)
is to build the Community Board’s
capacity to conduct a community
risk and protective factor assessment.
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Overview
Using the
Communities That
Care Youth Survey Report
Collecting Archival Data
Identifying Priorities
Preparing a
Community Assessment Report
Next Steps
Wrap-up and evaluations
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• Review of membership of
Key Leaders and Community Board
• Activities since the
Community Board Orientation
• Key accomplishments to date
• Communities That Care
Youth Survey progress
• Issues, barriers and solutions
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• Public health approach
• Demonstrated predictors:
– Risk factors
– Protective factors organized
by the Social Development
Strategy (SDS)
• Tested, effective programs
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• Exist in all areas of influence
• Predict multiple problem behaviors
• Exist throughout development
• Have consistent effects across
races and cultures
• Can be buffered by protective factors.
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Availability of drugs
Availability of firearms
Community laws and norms
favorable toward drug use,
firearms and crime
Media portrayals of violence
Transitions and mobility
Low neighborhood attachment
and community disorganization
Extreme economic deprivation
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Family history of
the problem behavior
Family management problems
Family conflict
Favorable parental
attitudes and involvement
in the problem behavior
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Academic failure beginning
in late elementary school
Lack of commitment to school
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Early and persistent
antisocial behavior
Rebelliousness
Friends who engage
in the problem behavior
Gang involvement
Favorable attitudes toward
the problem behavior
Early initiation of
the problem behavior
Constitutional factors
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• Sort the candy.
• Record your findings.
• Report the results.
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Communities
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Youth Survey
Archival Data
Prioritization:
• Geographic Areas/Populations
• Risk and Protective Factors
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Protective Factors
Community Strengths
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• Youth problem behaviors
• Risk factors
• Protective factors
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• Communities
That Care
Youth Survey
• Archival data
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• Priorities for
prevention planning.
• Community
Assessment Report.
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• Develop a focus for planning.
• Establish baseline data
and expected outcomes.
• Conduct public relations
and outreach.
• Support fund development.
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• Was developed
from solid research
• Uses valid and
reliable measures
• Is valid across
gender and age groups
• Is valid across
racial and ethnic groups.
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• Exaggeration
• Reported use
of a fictitious drug
• Inconsistent responses
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Risk factor
(Family Management Problems)
Scale
(Poor
Family Supervision)
Questions
(“Would your parents
know if you did not
come home on time?”)
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Scale
(Poor
Family Discipline)
Questions
(“My family has clear
rules about alcohol and
other drug use.”)
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Perceived Availability
of Drugs and
Handguns
If you wanted to get some beer,
wine or hard liquor, how easy
would it be for you to get some?
Family Rewards for
Prosocial Involvement
How often do your parents tell you
they’re proud of you for something
you’ve done?
Substance Use
(binge drinking)
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Think back over the last two weeks.
How many times have you had five
or more alcoholic drinks in a row?
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50=Normative score
• Risk factors:
the lower the better
• Protective factors:
the higher the better
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Archival data
Prioritization:
• Geographic areas and populations
• Risk and protective factors
2-5 priority risk &
protective factors
Community strengths
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It’s any data that has
already been collected.
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• Raw numbers or written reports
• Stored in paper files,
computer databases or online
Remember:
It must be valid and reliable!
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Identify risk factors and problem behaviors
you need data for.
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Identify indicators to be collected.
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Identify sources for each indicator.
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Assign each source to a team member.
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Assign a data collection manager.
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• Local data
• National comparison data.
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Use Board member and Key Leader contacts.
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Find out who can give you access.
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Explain the project.
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Address concerns.
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Offer to share the findings.
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Collect meaningful units of measure.
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Collect data for the latest 5 years.
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Collect information about the source.
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Collect other relevant information.
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• Impressions
• Trends
• Comparisons
• Consistency
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• Set a time line.
• Collect more information as needed.
• Ask experts for help.
• Beware of “paralysis by analysis.”
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Archival data
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To achieve the greatest
long-term impact on youth
problem behaviors.
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• Elevated protective factors
• Low levels of a risk factor
• Low levels of a
problem behavior
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• Data analysis
— comparisons
— trends
• Clusters of elevated risk
• Ability to influence
• Political/social/economic considerations.
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Archival data
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• Geographic areas and populations
• Risk and protective factors
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Community strengths
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A summary of your
community’s risk-factor,
protective-factor and
problem-behavior assessment.
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1. Identify target audiences and uses.
2. Determine content and format.
3. Determine who will write the report.
4. Submit draft for
Key Leader approval.
5. Distribute to
stakeholders.
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For approval and buy-in of Key Leaders and
Community Board members
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To engage leaders and members of
priority areas or populations
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To raise the general public’s awareness
of community challenges and strengths
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To demonstrate need to funding sources
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To help the Resources Assessment and
Evaluation work group focus its efforts
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• Cover page
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Body
(detailed findings)
• Conclusion and
recommendations
• Appendices
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Key Leaders
Approval and
buy-in
Executive
summary
General public
Awareness
News articles
(highlights)
Resources
Assessment and
Evaluation work group
Assess
resources
Detailed information
Community agencies
Grant proposals Detailed information
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Identify tasks.
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Assign responsibilities.
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Identify needed resources.
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Specify issues
or barriers to resolve.
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Develop a time line.
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Tasks
Data Collection Tasks
Data Analysis Tasks
Prioritization Tasks
Reporting Tasks
Develop a Time Line
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Communicate the plan to:
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Community Board members
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Work groups
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Key Leaders
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Community members.
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Prepare and distribute final work plan.
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Communicate the plan to stakeholders.
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Schedule next meeting of work group.
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Determine what tasks will be
completed before the next meeting.
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Plan for the
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