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Needs Assessment
Creating an effective service-learning program begins with identifying the needs of a community. Performing a needs assessment is one way to discover a community’s most critical needs and where there is a lack of resources. Following are some of our most relevant resources for this topic.
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NSLC Library Items
- From Needs Assessment to Action: Transforming Needs Into Solution Strategies (2000), James W. Altschuld and Belle Ruth Witken
- The Generator, Summer 2010 (2010), Jim Kielsmeier, Natalie Waters Seum, Michael VanKeulen, and Maddy Wegner
- YMCA Resource Mapping & Community Action Guide: Assessing & Strengthening Communities through Service-Learning (2006), Pam Price and Amanda Rondeau
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SLICE Ideas and Examples
- Community Assessment and Evaluation (K-12)
- Family Violence (HE)
- Human Ecology 3383: Assessment and Planning for Reflective Instruction: Pre-K/K (HE)
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