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Windshield Survey
Assignment Guidelines
A. Windshield Survey
The Windshield Survey is comprised of general qualitative observations that give you a snapshot of the community that you can capture as you drive/walk through the community. The demographic data can be obtained online, through the public library, county or township administration buildings. Please address the following in a narrative format following APA guidelines:
1. Geographical description
· Boundaries, geographical, political, or economic, how is it seen.
· Housing a zoning
· Sign of decay
2. Health Resources
a. Type of services available: health department, private MD, dentist, hospital clinic,
b. pharmacy, health promotion, mental health
c. School and occupational health services
d. Official and voluntary services
e. Self help and support groups
f. Service organizations, faith-based programs
g. Stores (grocery, retail, drug, dry cleaning, etc.
h. Transportation
3. Citizen safety and protective services
a. Police and fire
b. Shelters for victims of abuse
c. Others: neighborhood watch etc.
4. Services provided by senior citizens senior centers, meals on wheels, transportation, day care, long term care.
a. Parks and recreational areas
5. Community welfare services beyond city/state aid as provisions for emergency food, shelter, and clothing.
The assignment must be presented in an essay style using APA format in the required Arial 12 font with a minimum of 1000 words.
Below please see the rubric that will be used to grade your survey:
Windshield Survey Rubrics | ||||
Grading Criteria | Accomplished | Proficient | Needs Improvement
| Score |
Physical Environment | 5 | 3 | 1 | |
| Provides clear, concise summary clarifies with multiple examples. | Provides summary but provides limited or unclear supporting details or examples. | Student provides a general summary but provides no supporting details or examples. | |
People | 5 | 3 | 1 | |
| Provides clear, concise summary clarifies with multiple examples | Provides summary but provides limited or unclear supporting details or examples | Provides a general summary but provides no supporting details or examples | |
Service | 5 | 3 | 1 | |
| Provides clear, concise summary of health services; clarifies with multiple examples. | Provides summary of health services but provides limited or unclear supporting details or examples. | Student provides a general summary of health services but provides no supporting details or examples. | |
Analysis | 5 | 3 | 1 | |
Summary of the Key Community Issues | Two to three well-developed paragraphs. Clearly and succinctly identifies and describes key community health issues. References to the collected data support the student’s summary. Conclusions are accurate, logical, and based on the collected data. | Two to three adequate paragraphs. Describes community health issues. Interpretation of data could be strengthened. Key data is relevant but may not fully support diagnosis. Conclusions are based on data but argument could be stronger. | Summary length is insufficient. The community health issues identified in the summary are weak or are inaccurate. Data is misinterpreted or does not support diagnosis. Conclusions are inaccurate or based on opinion. | |
Mechanics | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
Adheres to APA format; error free paper. 90%-100% of paper is well organized and consist of well-constructed paragraphs. No spelling or grammatical errors. | 80% to 89% of paper adheres to APA format, is well organized and error free, and consist of well-constructed paragraphs. Contains 1-5 spelling or grammatical errors. | 70% to 79% of paper adheres to APA format, is well organized and error free, and consist of well-constructed paragraphs. Contains 6-10 spelling or grammatical errors. | ||
Timeliness | 2 | 1.5 | 1 | |
Submits assignment on or before the due date. | Submits assignment 1 day after the due date. | Submits assignment 2 days after the due date. | ||
Scores | 16-25 | 7 – 15.5 | 6-15 | |
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Windshield Survey
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Windshield Survey
The region chosen to complete the assignment is Homestead, a city found within
Miami-Dade County, Florida. Investigations regarding the city prior to the windshield
survey revealed that Homestead is the second oldest city in the county and it sits on an
area of 14.4 square miles, with 0.1 square miles occupied by water. Geographically, the
city is located about 25 miles northwest of Key Largo and 35 miles southwest of Miami
and lies between “Everglades national park” to the west and “Biscayne national park” to
the east. Population per square mile is about 3,996.8 and the land area in square miles
is 15.14. There were about 23,419 households and the city comprise of approximately
69,907 persons. During the survey, no housing construction activities were evident and
the dwellers look developed.
Majority of the housing structures were multi-family housing formations and a
number of vacant houses could be noted with the for rent signs. One could tell most of
the housing belonged to persons of lower economic power while some of the housing
establishments belonged to middle class citizens to upper class citizens. Duplexes
formed most of the multi-family structures with very few of them abandoned. Majority of
the homes had cars parked outside and the car makes varied in age from present
generations models to old school cars of the late 70s. Most of the city is zoned to
“Homestead High School” while the northwes...