Child care, jobs, wages, housing topics at needs assessment

District 4 Human Resources Development Council held a meeting Monday evening to hear from community members about what their personal needs are and what they feel the needs of the region are so HRDC can put together a community needs assessment.

HRDC does one of these assessments every three years and HRDC Executive Director Carilla French said they are meant to be a profile of what the area's needs are and what resources they have.

French said she and the HRDC staff as a whole are trying to adopt a more holistic approach to addressing people and family's needs, either catering to all of them,...