Needs Assessments

Research Snippets

What qualities do resilient people have?

  • prosocial orientation
  • stong interpersonal skills
  • committment to school or work

Across studies of resiliency, what is the most common finding that differentiates resilient children and youth from those who are struggling?

  • a relationship with a supportive adult

Needs Assessments

When organizations and communities identify a potential need, a broader needs assessment and targeted research allows the voices of the end users to be heard. Needs assessments and research help guide planning by ensuring that program development matches the current needs. Examples of needs assessments and research completed to date are:

  • Child care needs assessments
  • Out-of-school programs needs assessments
  • Adolescent needs in relation to cancer prevention education
  • Social-emotional and health needs of children in middle childhood

Upcoming Workshops

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Recent Publications

Promoting Social Justice Through Building Healthy Relationships: Evaluation of SWOVA's "Respectful Relationships" program (Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, November, 2010)

The Power of Connection (Verlag Press, 2009)

Words to Ponder

"If we think about it, save for the vagaries of birth, errant biology, class and status, or simply circumstance, we are all but a half step away from the ‘other’ families we describe as in need of service or ‘at risk.’ In the final analysis, it is not ‘us’ and ‘them.’ It is all of us. Together"

Irish economist, T. K. Whittaker (1997)