Identify your issue.
- Identify & define your community
A community can be defined in a number of ways. The most common is a geographic area, such as a town, a neighborhood, or a school district. An organization can also be a community. For example, we might be interested in measuring the readiness level of a state’s Department of Public Health to begin working on increasing the physical activity of that state’s senior population. In this case, the community is the Department of Public Health while the issue is increasing the physical activity of the state’s senior population.
Examples of communities include:- Geographical areas.
- A subgroup of a geographical area (ethnicity, age, etc.).
- An occupation group such as law enforcement, medical community, environmentalists.
- A system such as mental health.
- An organization or a department of an organization