Tuesday's Children Long-Term Healing Model

MODULE 2: Assessing Service Population & Program Development


Using the information from this outline, you are ready to assess your service population and begin program development.

  • Once you complete this exercise, you will be ready to learn how to evaluate the needs of your community and measure the effectiveness of your programs.
  • To proceed to Module 3: Evaluation, Measurement, Implementation, and Adaptability, click here.

If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Tuesday's Children at (212) 332-2980.

Engaging Your Community

How will you engage your community and register constituents? Create reliable intake methods that capture necessary demographic data while providing a brief overview of your services and keeping people engaged.

What is your first point of contact for community engagement?

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What are the most pressing immediate and longer-term needs of your community?

Program Development Needs

What are the most pressing immediate and longer-term needs of your community?

Immediate (6 mos. in operation):

Middle-term (yrs 1-2):

Longer-term (yrs 3-5+):

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Identifying Emotional Needs

Understand your service population. List concerns and identify key themes demonstrating the emotional impact of the tragedy in your community:

Mental Health Services

Do you have or plan to have a mental health clinician on staff to provide counseling?

Will these services be provided free of charge?

Does your community have access to other mental health and counseling services?

Are these services available free of charge?

How do you intend to address the ongoing needs for counseling?

In working with families and children, are there developmental concerns in your service population need to inform your services?

Which of these developmental concerns might be present in your community?

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Developing Programming

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Expanding Services

Consider how you would expand services. Are there other populations that can benefit from your services? If your organization was founded because of a specific one-time tragic event, it may have a limited reach. Consider relevance to your mission, additional outreach needed, mission creep, etc.