Focus Group Questions

doing this so that you can make changes to the process and understand outcomes of their efforts. You might say the following to the youth team before you begin asking your questions:

“I am so excited to talk with you all today and begin wrapping up the CNA. One thing I would like to do is ask the group some question about how this whole process has gone for you all, what you liked, what you thought could be done differently, and what were the results or outcomes of the work you all did. I am going to take some notes while you all talk, and it won ’t hurt my feelings when you tell me the things you thought could be done differently for future youth-led CNAs. ”

Once you have your pen and paper ready, you will want to ask your questions and record the youth’ s answers.

Here are some questions you can ask your youth team, but feel free to add additional questions, skip non-relevant questions, and adapt them to fit the group.

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a. What were your initial thoughts and reactions to the youth-led needs assessment? 2. Now that we are at the end of the process, what did you like about what we did, learned about, or plan to do as a result of this process? 3. Are there any things that you didn ’t like, think should be changed, or didn ’t provide you with enough information to continue progress on the CNA? a. What suggestions do you have to make things better for future youth-led CNAs? 4. I am hoping you can help me understand what you gained from doing this and what the outcomes are. First, what were the benefits for yourself in going through this process? a. What did you learn? About yourself or the community? 5. What do you think were the outcomes or benefits for the youth community from this process? a. What do you think will be done using the information gained from this process?

When you think back to the very beginning of this process, what did you think we would be doing?