We are planning convenings in various counties in Oregon inviting community stakeholders to 1) identify top priorities for COVID-19 recovery in the next 6-9 months in their local community and 2) to help them determine resources/assets already available and facilitate leveraging existing resources to address those priorities.
What would you recommend in terms of a data collection method? We are looking for a method/database to be used synchronously during the convening and asynchronously post convening. It would would ideally be "owned/accessed" by community members and updated by them once our intervention is over.
Secondly, a huge area will be a focus on vulnerable populations, identifying the needs of certain segments of the population - with specific targeted resources/tactics to address them. Do you have examples of populations/resource asset maps (vs geographical) with this type of focus, including sample questions?
Thank you so much for your guidance.
Greetings Veronique,
Thank you for sending over your questions and congratulations on leading this work. I want to focus the response to you around your two questions:
What would you recommend in terms of a data collection method? There are many ways you can approach this work and here are some resources you may want to review as you think through your approach. Chapter 3. Assessing Community Needs and Resources (https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/assessment/assessing-community-needs-and-resources/develop-a-plan/main). Of course, you can create a survey (either open-ended or not) online and have people respond live while facilitating a session or begin with a questions "What resources/supports have you relied on during the COVID-19 pandemic? In proximity to where you live/dwell how far or how close are these supports and resources?" (maybe have them drag a cursor or place a dot on a map). You may also want to ask the question 'What are some resources/supports you need of or require during the COVID-19 pandemic?"
You could do some convening afterwards or send themes to folks and have them rank from most important to least important. I also want to send over this read/resource to provide you with some insight: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/COVID-19_CommunityEngagement_130320.pdf
Do you have examples of populations/resource asset maps (vs geographical) with this type of focus, including sample questions? Chapter 3, Section 8: Identifying Community Assets and Resources (https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/assessment/assessing-community-needs-and-resources/identify-community-assets/tools). Here you will find "Tools" "Examples" for support on how to phrase questions and other related content.
I know there is much here and I do trust that you will find the information you need to lean forward with this project.