Target Organization: Malta House (Norwalk, CT)
Needs Assessment:
- To assist women in strengthening themselves as agents of change in their lives
- To enable women to record and reflect their community's strengths and concerns
- To promote critical dialogue and knowledge about personal and community issues
- To empower students to create and initiate contact with policy makers to create change
Target Organization: Department of Elderly Services (New Haven, CT)
DIXWELL SENIOR CENTER / ATWATER SENIOR CENTER / EAST SHORE SENIOR CENTER
Needs Assessment:
Needs Assessment:
- Support areas of concern for seniors in community by developing group dynamic and skill building
- Provide opportunities for public education and outreach for social support and quality of life
- Enable participants to reflect and record issues such as; major life changes, grief and loss, physical and mental challenges and family dynamics
Target Organization: West Side Federation (New York, NY)
RED OAK SENIOR CENTER / FREDERICK DOUGLASS SENIOR CENTER
Needs Assessment:
Needs Assessment:
- Support areas of concern for seniors in community by developing group dynamic and skill building
- Provide opportunities for public education and outreach for social support and quality of life
- Enable participants to reflect and record issues such as; major life changes, grief and loss, physical and mental challenges and family dynamics
Target Organization: The Bowery Mission - Heartsease Home (New York, NY)
Needs Assessment:
- To assist women in strengthening themselves as agents of change in their lives
- To enable women to record and reflect their community's strengths and concerns
- To promote critical dialogue and knowledge about personal and community issues
- To empower students to create and initiate contact with policy makers to create change
Target Organization: Pivot Ministries (Bridgeport & Norwalk, CT)
Needs Assessment:
- To change self-expectation through community ownership
- To help men develop skills in a decision making capacity
- To encourage democratic participation in the group process
- To promote group support on issues of accountability
- To provide educational enrichment in organization learning
Target Organization: Family Services of Westchester (White Plains, NY)
Needs Assessment:
- Shared Understanding
To develop support to create and collaborate through the photographic lens
- Shared Support
To develop community base of integrated goals and understanding
- Shared Challenge
To develop core skills and goals through arts context
Target Organization: Walter Hoving Home (Garrison, NY & Pasadena, CA)
Needs Assessment:
- Conceived to address significant community concerns in the lives of the populations, where there are significant disparities and negative social outcomes impacting girls and women
- The project objective is to develop a contribution to the health and well-being of the women at WHH
- Focal Point is a methodology used in the field of community development, public health, and education
Target Organization: Accion Academy
Needs Assessment:
- Arts education programming is designed to fit educational standards criteria and mission statement of organization
- Provide opportunities for students to learn the value of community service and activism
- Fulfill community service requirement called ‘Community Action’
- Students graduate with 120 hours of community service
Target Organization: San Miguel Academy
Needs Assessment:
- Develop collaborative group dynamic
- Increase opportunity for critical thinking and collaborative decision making
- Create opportunities for student interaction, engagement and discussion of life issues
- Engage larger community
- Develop self as a stakeholder
