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)