Homework: Community Strategic Plan
For this homework, identify an area of focus in community health within your own community.
Using Gordon's Functional Health Patterns framework (p. 130 in your e-text), assess the health risks in your community.
In your community assessment paper, include the following:
o Identify resources in your community that would enable you to complete a community assessment and submit a summary of your findings (1 to 2 paragraphs).
o Refer to Table 8-3: Examples of Community Strengths and Concerns, and assess the strengths and concerns of your community (2 to 3 paragraphs).
o Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community and brainstorm ways of addressing these barriers (2 to 3 paragraphs).
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.