Designing and Implementing a Needs Assessment

Presentation by Brian F. Geiger, EdD, FAAHE & Marcia R. O’Neal, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Education, College of Arts and Sciences and Center for Educational Accountability at the Lifespan Respite Grantee and Partner Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 27, 2010.

Presenters shared their process and tools for conducing a statewide needs assessment for the Alabama Lifespan Respite Network in 2009-2010 as the foundation for the state’s advancement of a Lifespan Respite Care Program and as a first step in the program’s external evaluation.