Abuse and Neglect: Orientation Project and Community Assessment

There are 2 parts to this assessment. In this assessment, you gather information for a family assessment and look at the medical history and social influences on a family unit. You will conduct a windshield survey of the community in which your chosen family resides.

Part 1: Family Assessment

Select a family within your community as the basis for the completion of assessments in this course. The family must have at least 1 child under the age of 18 living the home.

Complete and submit a signed Family Release of Confidentiality form to your course instructor prior to your first point of contact with the selected family.

Review the key points of therapeutic conversation.

Formulate key questions for obtaining valuable information.

Ensure your family assessment addresses:

Identifying data
Developmental stage and history of family
Environmental data
Family structure
Family functions
Family stress and coping
Family composition
Parenting styles

Provide a brief overview of the family members.

Define child abuse and neglect using your states terminology. Note any parenting weaknesses that might indicate possible abuse and/or neglect.

Write a minimum 875-word summary of Part 1.

Note: Remove all personally identifying information, such as the family members names. Refer to family members by initials only.

Part 2: Community Assessment

Review the .

Review the Windshield Survey Resources

Observe your familys community by driving around the area.

Consider aspects of the community that could affect residents’ health and any that may be applicable to the community.

Conduct a windshield survey that addresses the following components:

The age, nature, and condition of the communitys available housing
Infrastructure needsroads, bridges, streetlights, and so on
The presence or absence of functioning businesses and industrial facilities
The location, condition, and use of public spaces
The amount of activity on the streets at various times of the day, week, or year
The noise level in various parts of the community
The amount and movement of traffic at various times of day
The location and condition of public buildingsthe city or town hall, courthouse, and so on
Walkability of community: walking paths/biking paths/safety and proximity for walkability to community resources
Public transportation availability, cost, accessibility
Social service centers, such as public libraries, parks, churches, community centers, recreation centers
Health care facilities, including how many, such as clinics and hospitals, and accessibility of health care resources
Food/nutrition, including details such as food deserts, grocery stores
Homeless population and homeless services details
Police and fire department presence
Schools and their location, including physical condition of schools, and note whether daycare, preschool, elementary, middle school, high school.
Community resources related to child abuse and neglect, spousal abuse, or elder abuse

Compile your windshield survey data, using the to include:

Data overview of all community components as identified in the Community Tool Box Resource (in the Windshield Survey Resources below)
Strengths of community as evidenced by windshield survey
Weaknesses (gaps in service) as evidenced by windshield survey
Develop 1 family nursing diagnosis based upon identified gap in community resources as an indicator of potential poor health outcomes
Develop 1 family diagnosis based upon identified gap in community resources as an indicator of potential poor/weak parenting

Format your assessment as noted:

18- to 20-slide presentation
The slides should only contain essential information and as little text as possible. Do not design a slide presentation made up of long bullet points. Your speaker notes convey the details you would give if you were presenting. See the page from Microsoft for more help.

Submit your assignment.

Windshield Survey Resources

Review these resources for information about completing a windshield survey: