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SLWK 2010 INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY SOCIAL WORK, Dalhousie University,Canada
Assignment : COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT: A REFLECTION
You will use the Windshield Survey tool and provide a critical analysis of a community/neighbourhood of their choosing. (CITY OF TORONTO). Be sure to include course readings and lectures to help frame the assessment of the community.
You will include the following: General impression of the neighborhood or geographic area, including assets and needs.
The residents: how do people feel about the community? Strengths? Challenges? Looking at some recent stories or relevant news articles.
Your perceptions: general statements about the health of this community. What are the strengths? Actual or potential challenges and needs you can identify? (Lack of affordable housing and lack of affordable child care)
Student reflects on assumptions held prior to the start of this exercise and answers how they were challenged, confirmed or changed Research on the city of Toronto and its residence. Research on the lack of affordable housing and lack of affordable childcare.
General impression of the neighborhood or area, including assets and needs.
Student balances community assets and needs.
What do you see? Demographics, ethnicity, cultural diversity? Atmosphere?
What represents the values and beliefs of the community?
Types of housing, signs of change
Politics and government: are there sign posts of political activity?
What is the physical environment? i.e. housing, zoning, environmental factors, etc.
The residents: how do people feel about the community? Strengths? Challenges?
Student looks at some recent stories or relevant news articles to support the assessment
Student balances strengths and challenges
Your perceptions: general statements about the health of this community. What are the strengths? Actual or potential challenges and needs you can identify?
Student looks at some recent stories or relevant news articles to support the assessment
Describe the health and social services in the area. What is available either in the community or around it?
Communication: what are the formal and informal means of communication? Where do people gather?
Recreation: where do people play? Who participates? Are there facilities?
Student reflects on assumptions held prior to the start of this exercise and answers how they were challenged, confirmed or changed
Reflection is from an anti-oppressive lens and grounded in social work ethics
Provides a critical analysis of a community/neighbourhood
Required
Text Book Parada, H., Barnoff, L., Moffat, K., & Homan, M. (2011). Promoting Community Change: Making it Happen in the Real World (1st ed.)