Session Overview
Community assessments can demonstrate challenges but when it comes time for the final presentation, it is helpful to have supporting evidence. Doing data research from sources like the census can help, but public data may not be enough. Surveys and interviews of neighborhood and/or school members or peers can provide quantitative (information represented by numbers) and qualitative data (information that helps tell a story). Youth participants can include the findings in their final presentation.
Activities
- Data Research
- Community Survey
- Community Interviews
RECOMMENDED MATERIALS:
- Clipboards
- Pens
- Paper
- Computers (if available)
- Voice recorder (if available)
YEAH! ONLINE RESOURCES:
- Session 7PowerPoint
- Sample Surveys
- Sample Interview Questions
- Onlne Data Sources
- Data Worksheet
STUDENT LEADER TO-DOS
Helpful Hints
- Split the youth into three groups (Data research, survey team, interviewers)
- Survey questions with answers that are on a numeric scale, or yes/no responses are better than only short answer, as they can be tallied and represented in simple charts
In this session, YEAH! club members will conduct surveys and interviews with community members and research other neighborhood and/or school community data.
Session Prep and Reflection:
- What’s your plan for this session?
- What worked well?
- What did not work well?
- What was a challenge for you?
- What were the “wows” from this Session?
- What are you going to do differently next time?