[Libs-Or] Free web-based CE: Community Assessment from the NN/LM, Pacific Northwest Region

[Gail Kouame]

Join us beginning January 14, 2009, for a 3-part RML Rendezvous series 
of Community Assessment for CE credit.  All library types are welcome to 
participate - these concepts will transfer easily to many settings.

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region 
(NN/LM PNR) is offering our second RML Rendezvous Medical Library 
Association Continuing Education (MLA CE) course, Community Assessment. 
Susan Barnes, Assistant Director of the Outreach Evaluation Resource 
Center (OERC) and Maryanne Blake, Outreach/Evaluation Coordinator at 
NN/LM PNR, will teach the course.

For full information visit: 
http://nnlm.gov/pnr/training/CommunityAssessment.html

Community Assessment

Community Assessment will help librarians and others involved in health 
information outreach to design quality programs and garner support for 
those programs by taking the right first step: collecting community and 
needs assessment information about the groups of people who will be 
involved. By the end of the course, participants should know how to 
collect data that will create a picture of their target community, 
including its needs, assets, resources, and potential obstacles that may 
affect the success of health information outreach efforts. Participants 
will learn how to use existing data, such as US Census data, state data, 
and local resources in community assessment. They also will learn the 
type of information they should seek through interviews and surveys.

Learning objectives include

     * Describe the goals of a community assessment
     * Identify methods for gathering information from local 
participants and stakeholders to better plan a project
     * Collect community assessment data for proposal writing

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Gail Kouame
Consumer Health Coordinator
gmarie at u.washington.edu

NN/LM PNR
University of Washington
Box 357155
Seattle, WA  98195

(206) 221-3449 – voice
(206) 543-2469 – fax
1-800-338-7657
in WA, OR, ID, MT, AK