Community Assessment

Creating a list of target goals is the first part of addressing any community's issues. This is done in order to create pathways for the determination of funding both public and private. It also helps the advisor to take steps in understanding the community by knowing the background of the community's social, political, and economic status. In assessing the research, certain community sources of strength and weakness will avail themselves within the advisor's analysis.

The advisor should plan on setting up an initial meeting with the most active and knowledgeable community agency. Within this initial meeting, the advisor will reiterate how well the agency is doing by noting their knowledge of the community, by acknowledging their work within the community and by going over with them their own assessment of their community's problems.

The micro goals of this meeting and follow-up meetings is to learn. The advisor requires knowledge of issues such as how long community problems have existed and what walls the agency has run up against in implementing their previous programs. The advisor will have to find out whether or not others outside of the agency have attempted any actions and what of these proposed actions proved to be a successful program or a failure and why. The advisor will need to learn of other groups within the community that may offer support or provide opposition and to wha

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verty. One community-based organization (CBO) working in the Chinese community is the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA). The OCA promotes active participation of Chinese and Asian Americans in both civic and national matters; secures social justice, equal opportunity, and equal treatment; eliminates prejudices and ignorance and enhances the image of Asians in America; and promotes the cultural heritage of Chinese and other Asian Americans. A section of the community has been targeted for redevelopment recently. While Government has always had the right to use eminent domain to purchase privately held property for public use, it is in the definition of "public use" that the danger lies. In this case, the community targeted for redevelopment at this time is the center for an elder hospice and community living quarters aimed at elderly Chinese Los Angelinos. The Chinese community is concerned with being overlooked by both the City Council of Los Angeles and the Board of Supervisors since at present the seating of both of these governmental bodies is primarily made up of white and Latino Board members and without a specific Asian American voice for the 400,000+ member Chinese Los Angelino community base. Due to langu
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)

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