2025 Strategic Plan and Community Needs Assessment Input: Community Action of Southeast Iowa

We are gathering information for our 2025 Community Needs Assessment and agency Strategic Plan. Your input is valuable to us as we look at what is happening in our community, how our agency is set up, and planning as we move forward.

Our agency mission: Community Action of Southeast Iowa is dedicated to alleviating the conditions and causes of poverty by building partnerships and strengthening people through quality services.

Our agency vision is for people in southeast Iowa to have the opportunity to reach their maximum potential.

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* 1. I live or work in Iowa in:

Des Moines County

Lee County

Henry County

Louisa County

Washington County

Muscatine County

None of the above

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* 2. Which of these do you represent? Check all that apply.

Board Member

Community Action Staff

Other local nonprofit staff

Community Action Client (in the past year)

Community Action Client (in the past, but NOT the past year)

Local business employee (for profit business)

Business owner or manager

Other (please specify)

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* 3. When I think of community I primarily think of (choose only one):

My home neighborhood

My home city

My work city

My home county

County(s) I serve in my work

Southeast Iowa (Des Moines, Henry, Lee & Louisa Counties)

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Please select what you think to be the top FIVE individual/family needs

 Child Care During Hours Needed

 Food Budgeting

 Paying for Child Care

 Transportation

 Physical Health

 Debt

 Legal Issues

 Finding Child Care

 Health Care Costs/Bills

 Adult Education/Training

 Employment

 Payday Loans

 Getting Medical Care

 Housing

 Getting Food

 Keeping a Job

 Budgeting

 Brain/Mental Health

 Substance Use

 Abuse

 Child Education

 Livable Wage Job

 Safety

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Please select what you think to be the top FIVE community needs

 Housing

 Child Education

 Childcare

 Infrastructure (utilities, stores, facilities, parks, etc)

 Youth Programs

 Brain/Mental Health

 Crime/Public Safety

 Health Services

 Transportation

 Unemployment

 Employment

 Adult Education

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Please select what you think to be the top FIVE agency needs.

 Staff

 Data

 Facilities

 Funding

 Public Relations

 Leadership

 Volunteers

 Partnerships

 Community Engagement

 Communication

Other (please specify)

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* 7. What do you think are underlying causes or issues of the top needs you identified?

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* 8. What do you think are your community’s weaknesses or barriers?

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* 9. What do you think are our agency strengths?

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* 10. What do you think are your community’s strengths?

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* 11. What do you think are individual/family strengths?

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* 12. Please rate your knowledge of available community resources on a scale of 0-10.

0 = no knowledege

10 = Fully Knowledgeable

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* 13. What resources do you think your community is lacking?

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* 14. Please rate your knowledge of Community Action's programs and services on a scale of 0-10.

0 = No knowledge

10 = Fully knowledgeable

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* 15. What do you think are agency weaknesses, barriers, or resources that are lacking?

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* 16. If resources were not a barrier, what would you like to see at Community Action?

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* 17. If resources were not a barrier, what would you like to see in your community?

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* 18. Past Community Needs Assessments and Strategic Plans can be viewed on our Report Webpage: https://caofseia.org/about-us/reports/

Other Comments:

2025 Strategic Plan and Community Needs Assessment Input: Community Action of Southeast Iowa

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* 1. I live or work in Iowa in:

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* 2. Which of these do you represent? Check all that apply.

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* 3. When I think of community I primarily think of (choose only one):

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* 4. Please select what you think to be the top FIVE individual/family needs

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* 5. Please select what you think to be the top FIVE community needs

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* 6. Please select what you think to be the top FIVE agency needs.

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* 7. What do you think are underlying causes or issues of the top needs you identified?

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* 8. What do you think are your community’s weaknesses or barriers?

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* 9. What do you think are our agency strengths?

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* 10. What do you think are your community’s strengths?

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* 11. What do you think are individual/family strengths?

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* 12. Please rate your knowledge of available community resources on a scale of 0-10.

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* 13. What resources do you think your community is lacking?

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* 14. Please rate your knowledge of Community Action's programs and services on a scale of 0-10.

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* 15. What do you think are agency weaknesses, barriers, or resources that are lacking?

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* 16. If resources were not a barrier, what would you like to see at Community Action?

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* 17. If resources were not a barrier, what would you like to see in your community?

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* 18. Past Community Needs Assessments and Strategic Plans can be viewed on our Report Webpage: https://caofseia.org/about-us/reports/Other Comments:

* 18. Past Community Needs Assessments and Strategic Plans can be viewed on our Report Webpage: https://caofseia.org/about-us/reports/

Other Comments: