Preassessment of Community-Based Organization Preparedness in Two Sectors, Human Services and Faith Based: New York City, 2016
| Autor: | Melissa Pagaoa, Noelle-Angelique M. Molinari, Beth Maldin Morgenthau, Tanya Telfair LeBlanc, Luis Rivera |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Community based
Social Work Emergency management business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Emergency Medical Service Communication Systems AJPH Open-Themed Research Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Civil Defense Disaster Planning Public relations Faith Preparedness Faith-Based Organizations Surveys and Questionnaires Agency (sociology) Needs assessment Organizational readiness Humans New York City business Human services health care economics and organizations Needs Assessment media_common |
| Zdroj: | American journal of public health. 109(S4) |
| ISSN: | 1541-0048 |
| Popis: | Objectives. To determine the level of preparedness among New York City community-based organizations by using a needs assessment. Methods. We distributed online surveys to 582 human services and 6017 faith-based organizations in New York City from March 17, 2016 through May 11, 2016. We calculated minimal indicators of preparedness to determine the proportion of organizations with preparedness indicators. We used bivariate analyses to examine associations between agency characteristics and minimal preparedness indicators. Results. Among the 210 human service sector respondents, 61.9% reported emergency management plans and 51.9% emergency communications systems in place. Among the 223 faith-based respondents, 23.9% reported emergency management plans and 92.4% emergency communications systems in place. Only 10.0% of human services and 18.8% of faith-based organizations reported having funds allocated for emergency response. Only 2.9% of human services sector and 39.5% of faith-based sector respondents reported practicing emergency communication alerts. Conclusions. New York City human service and faith-based sector organizations are striving to address emergency preparedness concerns, although notable gaps are evident. Public Health Implications. Our results can inform the development of metrics for community-based organizational readiness. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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