Transformative Needs Assessment Methodology: A Mixed Approach for Organizations Serving Marginalized Communities

Autor/in	Sankofa, Nicole
Titel	Transformative Needs Assessment Methodology: A Mixed Approach for Organizations Serving Marginalized Communities
Quelle	In: American Journal of Evaluation, 42 (2021) 4, S.505-522 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sankofa, Nicole)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1098-2140
DOI	10.1177/1098214020960798
Schlagwörter	Needs Assessment; Disadvantaged; Evaluation Methods; Adolescent Development; Juvenile Justice; Institutionalized Persons; Social Action; Empowerment; Recidivism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bedarfsermittlung; Jugendgerichtshilfe; Soziales Handeln; Rückfall
Abstract	Needs assessments (NAs) for marginalized communities would ideally contextualize needs in the sociocultural context, use agency-supportive methods, and result in liberatory action planning. This article develops the Transformative Needs Assessment With Marginalized Communities (TNAMC) using a mixed-methods approach that examines internal and external factors of needs for marginalized communities using liberatory methods to arrive at emancipatory action planning. This nonlinear process includes identifying concerns, checking assumptions, action committee selection, identifying need areas, situating need areas in context, identifying metrics of needs, collecting and analyzing data, prioritizing needs, creating action strategies, and developing an action plan. Each phase is discussed using the examination of anti-recidivism adolescent development needs in a predominately Black juvenile detention facility (N = 87 juveniles) as exemplar. The development of TNAMC is designed to aid NA evaluators in designing assessments that integrate social action as a primary purpose of the NA while empowering marginalized communities throughout research processes. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01