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Windshield Survey Analysis

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Windshield surveys are systematic observations made from a moving vehicle. The survey are systematic can help you better understand either the community in general or a specific condition or aspect of it. Windshield surveys is used to assess general community needs to estimate the poverty level, for example or to examine more specific facets of the community’s physical, social, or economic character. Basically is a description of a community and its people. The purpose is to identify the needs of a community in order to provide services appropriate to those needs.

Community description South west side of Wichita is community that have mixture of all demographic …show more content…

Southwest Wichita is sliding into poverty faster than any other neighborhood in Wichita. The area also skews younger than much of the city, with a high percentage of single parents and children .In the past decade, the poverty rate has grown from 9.4 percent to 33.6 percent in this neighborhood. Almost the entire southwest quadrant of the city saw poverty increase by more than 10 percent since 2000, the study shows. (Lefler, 2011) Southwest Wichita has been heavily dependent on manufacturing jobs, which offer a middle-class standard of living for people who have not completed much education past high school. There are lot of factor why this area is declining every single day, lower education level is one of the factor. According to Lefler (2011) Children of blue-collar workers tend to follow their parents' ways and not seek a higher education, isolating themselves from knowledge and contact networks that lead to higher-paying jobs. The data conclude that most of people living in this community don’t have transportation and it so hard for them to find a steady jobs outside of this community without having reliable …show more content…

Based on the number of people visit diabetic clinic per month and most of people seen to obese I can say the large number of people in this community have diabetes or will be affected with diabetes and heart diseases in the future due to the food they eat and their life style.

Community strengths and areas for improvement
I do believe that this community need a lots of improvement, city government need to come with different way on how to create employment for this community. Having steady job will help people of this community to have their own car, keep them busy and improve their social economic status , community need more education on how to live a healthy life ,nutrition , and need of life style change in general.
The community has already established diabetic clinic, to this is one step ahead in deal with diabetes. Also the availability of Community Park is the huge advantage for the community because they can use for outdoor activities. Identify and understand the status of community health

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