Skagit
County Low-Income Needs Assessment – 2009
>2005 SCCAA LINA
SCCAA’s “Low-Income
Needs Assessment”, conducted every four years, is the foundation of planning
efforts for Community Action and other public and private, nonprofit service
providers and government entities in Skagit County. The 2009 study came at
a pivotal time, given the current economic turbulent times, and provides
valuable updated data around employment, housing, health, and other key
issues.
The
53-question survey
used for this study was revised considerably from previous assessments to
draw out critical information from families in our community. Input was
gathered from 656 households throughout Skagit County at 36 locations
frequented by low-income people, as well by several home-bound individuals
served by outreach programs.
New queries included:
revised health section to draw critical information for efforts of the newly
formed “Skagit County Alliance for Healthcare Access”, expanded employment &
income section (addresses self-employment trends & barriers to employment).
Demographic queries were also broadened to capture language and family
composition not previously detailed, and queries were also expanded that
establish the incidence of finance problems (home foreclosure, payday loans,
etc).
Greg Winter, of
Cornerstone Strategies, who holds a master’s degree in Resource Economics
from Michigan State University, conducted the research and reporting, his
third assessment for our community.
The
Executive Summary
functions as a stand-alone document, and provides a bird’s eye view of
the needs of low-income service provider clients in Skagit County. Either report may be viewed, and
duplicated as desired.
View
the 2009 LINA
Executive Summary in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format
(324 KB)
View the
2009 Full LINA Document
in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format (879 KB)
View
the 2009 LINA Survey
document in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format (175 KB)
We hope that you will
find the results of this study profitable in your endeavors to obtain
information about low-income families in Skagit County. Please contact SCCAA
at
sccaa@skagitcap.org if you have any further needs. Specialized reports
utilizing this data may be obtained through Cornerstone Strategies,
gregw@cstonestrategies.com.
We wish to thank the
following contributors that, along with Skagit County Community Action
Agency, made this report possible:
