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Community mapping is also known as Public Participatory
Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS).It is a significant tool that can be
used to narrate a story about what is happening in the communities. The
information collected can be analyzed using different types of statistical
analysis to identify relationships with other data such as socioeconomic data.
This too is critical in the service agency since it has the capability of
identifying “hot spot” or vulnerable populations in targeting interventions. In
this paper, we will be looking at the use of community mapping tool to evaluate
admission to drug treatment facilities.

The use of community mapping tool is useful in
understanding the effectiveness in the accessibility of drug treatment
facilities and identifying the most affected regions in the community. The
community mapping makes use of community-level indicators that focus more on
populations rather than individuals. Thus, they demonstrate what is happening
at community level as opposed to individual level and they offer objective
measures of outcomes as compared to other research instruments (Minkler, 2012). For instance when monitoring the rate of alcoholism, the tool will look
at the community-level indicator of sales of liquor in the community as opposed
to polling people together to find out their rate of liquor in a day.

There are many places that I can find information on
community-level indicators such as Health Indicators Warehouse (HIW), Community
Health Status Indicators (CHSI) and the best option is always The US Census
Bureau which provides demographic information. I will ensure that the
community-level indicators that I use will be focused and relevant and
scientifically defendable. For instance in my evaluation on the progress of the
drug treatment facilities I will use the community-level indicators to measure
the admissions to the treatment facilities. The outcomes that I will measure is
drug and alcohol related arrests, under-age drunk driving incidents and also
nighttime car accidents in the community.

References Minkler, M. (Ed.). (2012). Community organizing and community building for health and welfare. Rutgers University Press.

Community mapping Public participatory geographic information systems (PPGIS) which are also known as a community mapping is a research instrument that has been designed to narrate stories or give information about what is happening in different communities. Community mapping can be used to collect information of communities concerning health community violence, obesity, pedestrian safety, the environment, toxic emissions, infrastructure, restaurants and health centers among many other community issues (Suding et al., 2008). For my agency which is about the causes of environmental change in our locality, the community mapping instrument can be used to provide detailed data concerning the agency. By using this instrument, all community members will be informed about the topic and be issued with questionnaires to fill. The questionnaires will contain questions about economic and social issues which the community members think are contributing towards the environmental change. After that exercise, all the questionnaires shall be recollected, and all the answers shall be analyzed. Most repeated or similar responses will be used to generalize the primary causes of environmental change in that specific locality. After the analysis, necessary remedies that can be used to reduce the environmental change shall be applied to the community through educating the community members so that they can take the responsibility of implementing the solution measures. As a result, the environmental change shall be regulated or cubed completely. This research instrument is the best as opposed to other instruments because it involves the community members who are well conversant with their environment and also they have concrete information about what issues are causing the environment to change. Because many people do not like their residential area to change, it is clear that they will give correct information so that a quick remedy is implemented to stop repercussions of environmental change. Reference Suding, K. N., Lavorel, S., Chapin, F. S., Cornelissen, J. H., Diaz, S., Garnier, E., … & NAVAS, M. L. (2008). Scaling environmental change through the community‐level: a trait‐based response‐and‐effect framework for plants. Global Change Biology, 14(5), 1125-1140.

The
study will see about 100-150 people participate. At least with this range of
people it will be inclusive of all groups. So, the results will be a fair representation
of the society where the sampled individuals coexist. Less people might not
provide enough information while more participants might end up giving
repetition of what the predecessors have provided.

A
research study process is more than just going to the field and collecting data,
but requires proper preparations. Also, it is at the preparation stage where
the researcher decides on what methodologies will be employed and what criteria
will be used to get the participants. Importantly, the research goes on through
recording, analysing and presenting information after collecting the data are
also determined. Approximately, this study will take about a three weeks to a
month before the presentation and publishing of the information.

This
study will make use of population parameters in the presentation stage to expound
on the findings of the study. Some of the commonly used parameters are mean,
standard deviation as well as variance (Sahu,
Pal & Das, 2015).
Population parameter is a fixed measure of a given population that can
be utilized to describe and define the certain population.

References

Emmel, N., Seaman, J., &
Kenney, F. (2013). Sampling and choosing Cases in Qualitative

Research:
A Realist Approach. New Delhi: Sage Publishers.

Sahu, P. K., Pal, S. R., &
Das, A. K. (2015). Estimation and Inferential Statistics. New
Delhi:

Springer.