Megan Sirna August 27, 2014 USF MPH Public Health Day Final Presentation SONOMA COUNTY GUIDE TO DISCOVERING COMMUNITY ASSETS

Sonoma County Department of Health Services, Health Policy Planning and Evaluation Division: Health Action 2020 Vision Cradle to Career Strategy Schools Partnership Coordinated Plan for School and Community Investments “Develop an internal system of coordinated and aligned strategies, resources, and services for schools.” BACKGROUND

There are two paths typically used to explore solutions and make decisions in a community: INTRODUCTION NEEDS DEFICITS PROBLEMS NEEDS-BASED APPROACH STRENGTHS ASSETS CAPACITIES ASSETS-BASED APPROACH versus

Asset mapping is a process to document the resources of a community. Promotes community involvement Builds community cohesion OVERVIEW Who are they? Who what do they have?

Stage 1: Getting Started Stage 2: Approaches & Methods Stage 3: Analysis Stage 4: Dissemination Stage 5: Recommendations OVERVIEW ~8 weeks ~12 weeks ~4 weeks ~4 weeks Ongoing Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5

Engaging Key Stakeholders and Forming the Planning Committee – Transition to team for community school development – Representative of the community Project Scope Considerations – Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? GETTING STARTED

Approaches to Asset Mapping – Asset Identification – Basic Evaluation – Comprehensive Assessment Methods METHODS Increased resources, Increased information, Increased community engagement LEVEL 1 Secondary data LEVEL 2 Level 1 + Survey, Observation, Interview and/or Listening Sessions LEVEL 3 Level 2 + Photovoice, Community Walk, Community Engaged Mapping (CEM), and/or Focus Groups

Qualitative Data Analysis – Structured – Emergent Quantitative Data Analysis – Univariate – Bivariate Interpreting Your Findings ANALYSIS

Documenting Results – Asset Inventory – Asset Map – Report – Executive Summary – PowerPoint Presenting Results DISSEMINATION

Community identifies next steps Data can tell you how to: – Direct resources – Meet the needs of the community Building relationships RECOMMENDATIONS

EXAMPLES

NEXT STEPS Community Schools – Lawrence Cook Middle School – El Verano School Health Action chapters Leverage other projects

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