Sentinel city windshield survey answers

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COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT WINDSHIELD SURVEY Directions: As you “drive” through Sentinel City, write about your impressions of the community.

Take notes about the community using the following questions as a guide. You may

discover other areas that you want to note. Include your findings in the community

description section of your paper.

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ELEMENT DESCRIPTION: Housing and Commercial Buildings:

 How old are the houses and buildings in the community?

 What materials are the homes and buildings constructed from?

 Are all the houses similar in age and architecture?

 How would you characterize their differences?

 Are the houses detached or connected to each other?

 Are there solar panels? Windmills?

 Do the houses have space in front or behind them?

 What is the general condition of the houses and buildings?

 Are there signs of disrepair (e.g., broken doors or windows, leaks, missing locks)?

 Are there signs of neighborhood pride, such as well-tended yards?

 Is there central heating, modern plumbing, air conditioning? Open space:

 Is the county primarily rural, suburban, urban, or a mix? How much open space is there?

 What is the quality of the space (i.e., lush green parks or rubble-filled lots)?

 What is the lot size of the houses, lawns, and flower boxes?

 Do you see trees on the streets or a green island in the center of the streets?

 Is the open space public or private? Who uses this space?

Boundaries:

 What signs are there of where neighborhoods begin and end?

 Are the boundaries natural (a river, a different terrain); physical (a highway, a railroad); or economic (differences in real estate or presence of industrial or commercial units along with residential)?

 Do the neighborhoods have an identity or a name? Do you see them displayed? Are there unofficial names?

“Commons”:

 What are the neighborhood hangouts (e.g., schoolyard, convenience store, bar, restaurant, park, 24-hour drugstore)?

 What groups of people tend to gather at these hangouts?

 At what time do they typically meet?

 Does the commons area have a sense of territoriality, or is it open to everyone? Transportation:

 How do people get in and out of the neighborhoods (e.g., car, bus, bike, walking)?

 Are the streets and roads conducive to good transportation and bicycle use and also to community life?

 Are there major highways running through the county? Who do these highways

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serve?

 How frequently is public transportation available?

 Are gas stations available?

 Are there train stations or light rail stations? Service centers:

 Do you see social agencies, clients, recreation centers, signs of activity at the schools?

 Are there offices of doctors, dentists, and other such services?

 Are there parks? Are these parks in use?

Stores:

 Where do residents shop (e.g., shopping centers, neighborhood stores, outdoor markets)? ***Note: The Bodega is currently the only building that you can go into in Sentinel City***

 How do they travel? People out and about:

 If you are traveling during the day, who do you see on the street (e.g., an occasional passerby, a father with a baby)?

 Do you see anyone you would not expect?

 Can you spot the purpose of those that you see, such as a door-to-door salesperson or a postal worker?

 Is the dress of those you see representative or unexpected?

 What animals do you see (e.g., stray cats, pedigreed pets, watchdogs, birds, wildlife)?

Signs of community vibrancy:

 Is the community alive?

 How would you decide?

 Are there signs of arts and cultural expression?

 Do you see any of the following: street vendors, trash, abandoned cars, political posters, neighborhood-meeting posters, real estate signs, abandoned houses, mixed zoning usage, people tending their yards, sidewalks in good repair, historical places?

Race:

 Are the residents primarily Caucasian, African-American, Asian, of another group, or is the area integrated?

Ethnicity:

 Are there indications of ethnicity—food stores, churches, private schools, information or signs in a language other than English?

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Religion:

 Of what religion are the residents?

 Do you see evidence of heterogeneity or homogeneity?

 What denominations are the churches, temples, and mosques?

 Do you see evidence of these religious facilities being used other than on days of worship?

Health:

 Do you see evidence of acute or of chronic diseases or conditions?

 Do you see evidence of accidents, communicable morbidity diseases, alcoholism,

 drug addiction, mental illness, etc.?

 How far it is to the nearest hospital? To the nearest clinic? Politics:

 Do you see any political campaign posters?

 Is there a headquarters present?

 Do you see evidence of a predominant party affiliation? Media:

 Do you see indications of television use such as satellite dishes?

 What magazines and newspapers do residents read?

 What media do you see being sold in the stores?

 What form of media seems most important to the residents (e.g., radio, television,

 print, online)?

 What languages are represented in the various forms of media? Physical environment:

 Are there indications of an excess of certain types of activities, such as stores that

 sell alcohol or fast food restaurants?  What sorts of billboards are displayed and what do they indicate?  Are there many cell phone towers or is cell phone access limited?

Adapted from Anderson ET, McFarlane J: Community as client: Application of the

nursing process. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott.

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