Needs assessment

[1] Needs assessments can help improve policy or program decisions, individuals, education, training, organizations, communities, or products.

Considered the "father of needs assessment", Roger Kaufman developed a model for determining needs defined as a gap in results.

[8] Once the group has identified needs, they then generally turn to intensive needs assessment in order to rank the needs.

This part of the research is concerned with examining the depth of the need, and potentially required resources.

[14] Burke (2005) examined statistics that showed a need within the community of Bayview Hunters Point in order to "identify gaps in service delivery system to create a road map for improving neighborhood conditions by rationalizing the allocation of city dollars to social service programs".