Successfully Conducting Useful Community Needs Assessments for Nonprofit Organizations

When health care or other organizations attempt to do a community needs assessment, either to fulfill a legal requirement or to understand their changing environment, they face many challenges. What will offer a valid and reliable picture of community needs? How can they be sure the results will be credible? How can they invest their resources in research that will have payback? By attending this live audio conference you will:

• See how to conduct a community needs assessment, from start to finish
• Learn the top five methods for assessing community needs
• Learn to identify and avoid common challenges and pitfalls in completing a community needs assessment
• Learn how to ensure a community needs assessment meets the needs of cultural and other diverse stakeholders
• Hear strategies to meet and exceed federal requirements for a PPACA -required community health needs assessment