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Recommendation to Accept the SSHRB Community Needs Assessment Final Report
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam, Acting City Manager
Re: Accept the SSHRB Community Needs Assessment Report
BACKGROUND
The Charter of the City of Alameda assigns the Social Service Human Relations Board (SSHRB) the responsibility of assessing and responding to the social service and human relations needs of the City of Alameda. To fulfill that responsibility, the SSHRB periodically surveys Alameda residents to determine the scope of the community needs and to evaluate and publicize resources to meet those needs. The attached 2017 Community Needs Assessment report summarizes the needs of Alameda's residents and includes the methodology used by the SSHRB to produce a comprehensive and accurate report (Exhibit 1). Highlights of the results of the survey are presented in Exhibit 2.
DISCUSSION
The survey was conducted from November 1 through December 11, 2017. It was posted online, sent out via e-mail, and made available in hard copy at numerous locations throughout the City. The survey was available in English, Spanish, and Chinese in printed and electronic form. The City posted the survey on the front page of the City website. A number of service providers, including Alameda Point Collaborative, the Library, and Mastick Senior Center provided access to the survey in their computer labs as well as in printed form. In total, more than 1,700 responses were collected, yielding statistically significant data for a population the size of Alameda.
The survey was designed to gather information in the areas of community services, community facilities, social services, business and job services, and housing services. Also gathered were household demographic characteristics, including household size, number of children, economic level, and race/ethnicity of residents. The federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gu...
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