NAME: GENDER: Please circle: family/individual
NAME: GENDER: Please circle: family/individual
Part 2: Questionnaire & Proposal
This survey is to investigate the community’s knowledge and utilisation of support networks that assist families. Please fill out the following details. 1. What type of support services are you aware of in your local community? * Mental support services * Children support services * Family support services * Indigenous support services

2. Have you ever been involved with a family support network of any kind? If so, what organisation?

3. On a scale of 1-10 how effective do you think support networks in general are and give reasons? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4. If you have used or will use in the future, what type of support network do you think will help you best? * Online help * Face-to-face help * Phone help * Written help 5. If your family needed assistance would you reach out to a support network? Why/why not?

6. Identify 3 support networks that assist families in your local area.

7. What would be one barrier stopping you from seeking help from a family support network? * Lack of confidence * Guilt of cause * Insecurity * Personal issues 8. If you needed family support, what would you look for in a support network?

9. At what stage in point would you think about contacting a family support service? * Death of an individual * Financial assistance * Constant fighting * Cause of family member moving out/divorce 10. If you had to reach out to a support network that assists families, name which one it would be and why.

Thank you for completing this survey, with your help and information I will be able to process and analyse all information collected to investigate the community’s knowledge and utilisation of support networks that assist families.

Questionnaire Proposal
This questionnaire is to be distributed to a range of different people of different ages, ethnicity’s and genders within the community of Blacktown. It is to be distributed to the community to gain an over-all understanding of the support networks that assist families in all sorts of ways. With the community of Blacktown being fairly large, the questionnaire should be handed out to families through different kinds of methods such as online (emails) or being posted out to mail boxes. This way all family types will be able to get access to the survey.
To get information from all different types of families and accuracy of information, this questionnaire should be posted to every family residence within the area of Blacktown so that it’s guaranteed that all people in the community will receive a copy. This way most people of the community will respond to the survey, but some may not. In that case the survey should be sent out specifically only to residence with a family, so that the analysis will be highly accurate due to information being collected only from houses with families.
As the cost of mailing out the questionnaires to each household including non-family might be a slight expense, a copy of the questionnaire will also be emailed to other members of the community so that they can get results from all people’s perspectives. The email method can be easily accessed so most people are most likely to complete the questionnaire. Also this way, filling in an online survey is less time consuming for a lot of people and is easy to access. The questionnaire will be emailed to non-families and families as well.
With using these two methods, it is most likely that the information received will be accurate. The questionnaire is being sent to families via both methods as they are the important and main part of this survey and the other members of the community will be getting it in email form so they are more likely to do because it’s simpler. With all the information received back from the community on this survey, will reach the needs to investigate how much knowledge Blacktown community really has on support networks that assist families.