You are working for a non-profit organization in a suburban county in the mid-Atlantic states in the U.S. The county has approximately 164,000 households and a total population of 442,000. The mission is to provide services to children and adolescents from 5 years old - 17 years old. Because you have completed a sociology course, your program director asks you to prepare and present a strategy for gathering needs assessment data among parents in the target county that will help her understand the children's and parents' needs so she can propose a reasonable program throughout the county.

With only this amount of information to start, prepare recommendations for this data gathering project.