Transcript Level of Need

Level of Need
and other supplementary data
Key Principle in Intro to ROMA
• We assert that it is of ultimate importance to
identify the level of need in the assessment
process.
• Subsequently the level of the outcome that
will be achieved, the level of service provided
both must match the level of need.
Overall Results from Needs Assessment
Poverty Indicators by Importance
Use of Income
15%
Transportation
19%
Nutrition
12%
Housing
19%
Health
31%
Employment
27%
Education
21%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
What is the level of need?
• The identification of broad domains of need
are not helpful to move toward a strategic
plan. More information is needed to help to
define the need.
• What is it about Health that caused it to rise
to a priority for more than 30% of the
respondents?
• Unless we ask for more information, we will
not understand the need.
Consider these responses re:
Employment
Digging Deeper
• Highest percent of responses that relate to
“employment” are lack of employment
opportunities (with focus on those opportunities
that would produce good paying jobs with
benefits) and lack of education to secure jobs.
• The first is a community level need and the
second is an individual level need.
• These two needs would be addressed very
differently to see any change happen.
Which way do we go?
• The responses from surveys provide an
additional element in your overall assessment
process.
• The two different levels of employment needs
will be considered in the context of the
statistical data and other qualitative data the
agency has gathered.
• What else must be considered?
Use the level of need
• To make sense out of the causes and
conditions of poverty that are facing your
community.
• Statistical data may not help you to know
what individuals and families need – unless
you can find the relationships among the
various domains.
Multi-community Service Areas
• What happens if different segments of the
service area have different needs?
• Some local CAAs have both urban and rural areas;
• have communities with different economic
profiles (low income, middle income, high
income); and
• have communities with different population
types (neighborhoods that are predominantly
made of senior citizens, or families with young
children)
Fayette County
Washington County
What does the agency
do with this diverse
data?
Greene County
Who responded to the survey?
What about the population served?
Family Type
single parent /male
2 adults no
children
25, 6%
24, 6%
single
parent/
female
195, 45%
120, 28%
single
person
64, 15%
2 parent
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
a. 0-8
b. 9-12/non- c. high school d. 12 + some
grad
grad/GED post secondary
Education Levels of Adult Family Members
e. 2 or 4 yr
college
graduates
Levels of Family income
250
200
150
Source of Family Income
100
50
j. Other
0
i. Employment + other sources
a 0% to b. 51% to c 76% to d. 101% e. 126% f. 151% g. 176% h. 201%
50%
75%
100% to 125% to 150% to 175% to 200% and over
h. Employment Only
g. Unemployment
f. Pension
e. Social Security
d. SSI
c. TANF
b.General Assistance
a. Zero Income
0
20
40
60
80
100
What else do you know?
• Other data that can add understanding from
the IS report.