Assessing Your Community

This toolkit serves as a best practice guide to help move through important steps in building and sustaining a successful coalition. It includes numerous hands-on tools and example documents.

This tool provides guidance to coalitions on how to quickly assess the resources and needs ofyour community during a crisis, allowing you to more effectively identify where your coalition can be most impactful in moving to action. It will walk you through a simple process of identifying needs and resources, creating an action plan and moving to implementation.

An example of a simple neighborhood food access assessment.

This story map reflects the hard work of over 1 year of conversations, building community, research, observations, mapping, data crunching and editing. It highlights current assets and challenges Bastrop County faces in being able to ensure no one goes hungry.

The coalition hosted community listening sessions across the county to hear directly from people who have lived experience with food hardship. This report provies a summary of the project, the results, and recommendations.

Listening session guidelines to engage community members as part of a community food and physical activity assessment.

Food store assessment form and protocol for completing the assessment.

Windshield survey tool to support the community assessment of food retail, community resources, and infrastructure.

Informational handout explaining who the coalition is and why they are conducting a community assessment.

Example questionnaire to assess senior hunger in Spanish.

Example questionnaire to assess senior hunger.

An example of focus group questions to assess senior hunger.

Worksheet to help in the development of a community listening session for coalitions to receive feedback and input from the community.