Organizations need to consider the current trend of the larger population and address the impacts these trends are having within the small community. Through a needs assessment, you can identify problems in the community and look for ways to address them.” A needs assessment may be performed to broadly assess community issues, or it may be a narrower analysis of a target population. The success of providing the Midnight Shelter Care service will depend on the identification of target customers. It will require the presence of the program within existing resources for the homeless (shelters, soup kitchens, etc.) to truly evaluate the need for the service. It will be critical for the Shelter, as a whole, to provide information about Midnight Shelter Care to other human and social service organizations and form good working relationships with other programs. It is more likely that many of Midnight Shelter's clients come from referral agencies or other organizations. This is another way I can assess the needs and strengths of the community is by communicating with others