Nursing Homelessness

Nursing Homelessness

For this assignment, identify an area of focus in community health within your own community (I chose the homeless population)

Using Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns framework (p. 130 in your e-text), assess the health risks in your community (file provided)

In your community assessment paper, 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): https://www.chapmanpartnership.org, https://www.camillus.org/aboutus/causes-of-homelessness/#.W6ZG1y3MzHo

-Refer to Table 8-3: Examples of Community Strengths and Concerns (file provided), 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).