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that we didn’t list. If you are doing well and having no problems in an area, there’s a place to say
that, as well.
The 12 areas were:
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Living wage work
Affordable, decent housing
Having enough nutritious food all the time
Transportation (private vehicles, public transit)
Affordable, high-quality child care
Education or training
Income and money management
Internet access/cell coverage
Medical care, health insurance, cost of treatment/prescriptions
Family well-being
Treatment and recovery for alcohol and/or drug problems
Mental health counseling/treatment
We also asked respondents to the Community Partner Survey to use these same 12 categories to tell us
two things:
• Their top five priorities for new or improved services in our community. The five priorities
that respondents chose most often were: Mental health counseling/ treatment; affordable,
decent housing; transportation; living wage work; and affordable, high quality child care.
• Specifics about what is needed in each category for new or improved services.
b. Methodology for comparing results of the two surveys
We then compared the results from the two surveys. What we are looking for here is the comparative
ranking of the priorities chosen, not the percentages per se. The percentages cannot be directly compared
because the numbers who answered the Community Member Survey were so much larger than those who
answered the Community Partner Survey. In other words, a response from any one person on the
Community Partner Survey (N=57) was a greater percentage of the whole than for one answer to the
Community Member Survey (N=398) (although there were quite a few instances in which large numbers
of responses indicated the respondent had no need and so were eliminated from the comparison). This
means that typically, percentages for the Community Member Survey will be lower than for the
Community Partner survey.
In some cases, respondents to both surveys answered in very similar ways, while in others they were
quite different. These are differences in perspective. Providers and program participants often see things
differently. Participants were asked to answer from their own individual or family point of view, and
providers to answer from the vantage point of systems and policies. And it9s important to remember that
our community partners work only with the people most in need, which
