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A needs assessment is a systematic process for determining and addressing needs, or "gaps", between current conditions, and desired conditions, or "wants". [1]Needs assessments can help improve policy or program decisions, individuals, education, training, organizations, communities, or products.
Services available to students are as varied as their needs. One tenet of the community school model is that no two schools are alike because no two communities are alike—and communities and ...
From this approach, program designers assess the needs and resources existing within a community, and, involving community stakeholders in the process, attempt to create a sustainable and equitable solution to address the community's needs. Similar to traditional program design, community-based program design often utilizes a range of tools and ...
The Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2011 will authorize the United States Department of Education grant program to expand the number of full-service community schools across the nation. The bill would fund grants for states to expand the model at the state level and also for local partnerships between school districts and community-based ...
Service-learning is an educational approach that combines learning objectives with community service in order to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting societal needs. Service-learning involves students (k–12, higher education) in service projects to apply classroom learning for local agencies that exist to effect ...
The success of the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast for Children program helped reduce hunger and food insecurity locally, while pressuring state and federal governments to expand their own services. The program showed the government's failure in the War on Poverty and the ongoing impact of childhood hunger. [6]
The student bodies at Kentucky’s community colleges look vastly different from the traditional makeup of four-year universities. That means the mental health needs of students are unique, too ...
A small crowd of around two dozen community members gathered under gray skies on Sunday afternoon outside the Maryland Cracker Barrel where a group of special needs and autistic children were ...