Phase 3: Sustain Action and Impact
Community Health Assessments
Community Health Assessment and Improvement Toolkit
- About the Toolkit
- Getting Started
- Phase 1: Initiate Action
- Phase 2: Organize for Impact
- Phase 3: Sustain Action and Impact
More about Community Health Assessments
Trainings
Evidence-Based Strategies for Local Health Departments
This training defines evidence-based strategies and describes the North Carolina Institute of Medicine’s evidence-based strategies task force recommendations. (Source: Center for Healthy NC; Length: 15 minutes.)
Key Elements of Community Health Improvement Planning: From Assessment to Action Planning | Slides
This webinar describes considerations for developing goals for identified priorities, plans to engage or re-energize community members and partners, and why logic models are useful in CHIP development. (Source: NACCHO; Length: 90 minutes.)
Resources
Identifying priority areas
- Prioritizing Issues Tool (NACCHO)
- Nominal Group Technique (CDC)
Selecting Evidence-Based Interventions
- North Carolina Prevention Action Plan (NC IOM)
- Applying Evidence for Success (NC IOM)
Creating a Coordinated Action and Implementation Plan
- Principles to Consider for the Implementation of a Community Health Needs Assessment Process (GWU)
- Strategic Planning Template, Word document
- Collaborative CHIP Planning Handbook (Kansas Health Institute)
- Beginning with the End in Mind: Supporting the Development of Health Improvement Plans Designed for Action, PowerPoint presentation (Michigan Public Health Institute)
- Implementation Plan Template, Word document (Wisconsin CHIPP Infrastructure Improvement Project)
- Hospital Community Benefits after the ACA: Addressing Social and Economic Factors that Shape Health (RWJF)