Community Needs Assessments

NCCD has provided training and technical assistance in scores of communities across the nation in the area of targeted community-based planning. Most recently, NCCD has facilitated community-based planning on youth violence prevention for the Asian and Pacific Islander communities in Oakland and San Francisco, California, in Waipahu on the island of Oahu, and for the County of Hawai`i. The states of Kansas, Michigan, and Hawai`i have retained NCCD to provide strategic planning assistance in youth violence prevention in several communities.

Two main features of Community Planning and Needs Assessment:

• Support for community-based planning that is data-driven, that is founded on research-based best practices, and that encourages multi-agency collaboration.
• Dissemination of information on best policies and practices, methods that assist communities in making effective implementation decisions, and appropriate monitoring of the success of program and policy innovations.