community assessment

Using Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns frameworkIn your community assessment, include the following:

• Identify resources in your community that would enable you to complete a community assessment and submit a summary of your findings (1–2 paragraphs).
• Refer to Table 8-3: Examples of Community Strengths and Concerns, and assess the strengths and concerns of your community (2–3 paragraphs).
• Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community and brainstorm  ways of addressing these barriers (2–3 paragraphs).