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Session: Needs Assessment for Policy Development and Improving Programs
5017.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Needs Assessment for Policy Development and Improving Programs
This session will: describe how to recruit and train homeless for participatory research; discuss the relationship of urban residential displacement and health; and understand current characteristics and needs of limited English proficiency populations.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1)Describe how to recruit and train homeless for participatory research; 2)Discuss the relationship of urban residential displacement and health; and 3)Understand current characteristics and needs of limited English proficiency populations.
Moderator(s):Firoozeh Molaparast Vali, PhD
8:30 AMHomeless surveyors generate in-depth results: The San Bernardino County homeless census and survey
Peter Connery, BA
8:45 AMAssessing the effects of urban residential displacement on health: Case study in San Francisco
Carolina Guzman, MPH, Lili Farhang, MPH, Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH
9:00 AMBuilding internal capacity for community needs assessment: Lessons learned from the Health DATA Train-the-Trainer Project
Amy M. Carroll, MPH, Peggy Toy, MA, Mercedes Perez, BA, Steven P. Wallace, PHD, Roberta Wyn, PhD
9:15 AMCommunity Assessment and Planning: Voices and Choices in 31 Rural Black Communities in the Bootheel of Missouri
Laverne M. Carter, PhD, MPH, MA, William Johnson, Board Vice Chair, Melicia Whitt, PhD, Margaret Grayson, Board Chair
9:30 AMLimited English proficiency patients: A needs assessment
Francesca Gany, MD, MS, Ephraim A Shapiro, MPA
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Black Caucus of Health Workers; Public Health Education and Health Promotion
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA