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Receive Presentation on the Social Service Human Relations Board's 2023 Community Needs Assessment Report (Discussion)
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To: Honorable Chair Samantha Soules and Members of the Transportation Commission
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City of Alameda's Charter assigns 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 (City). To fulfill that responsibility, SSHRB has periodically surveyed Alameda residents to determine the scope of the community's needs and to evaluate and publicize resources to meet those needs. The last Community Needs Assessment (CNA) was presented to and approved by the City Council in May 2023.
The CNA is intended to inform the City Council of Alameda residents' needs. The CNA will also help community-based organizations document community needs in their applications for funding and will give granting agencies important information to help guide their giving programs.
BACKGROUND
The 2023 CNA used a different methodology for collecting and compiling data compared to the methodology used in previous years. Most notable, SSHRB decided to base the CNA on secondary data and public comments presented at SSHRB meetings instead of conducting the community survey that had been done in past years. All of SSHRB's changes to the CNA methodology are summarized below:
* Eliminate previous survey format. The 2012 and 2017 CNAs relied on community surveys posted on-line, distributed by email, and made available in hard copy at various locations in multiple languages throughout the City. SSHRB considered the limitations of this approach in producing a statistically representative sample of Alameda's population. In addition, the phrasing of the survey questions left ambiguity whether the responses were to be based on personal experience or perceived needs in the community.
* Use existing secondary data, including data collected from ...
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