Additional Tools and Resources

Following are additional tools and resources that will help you throughout your collaborative community health improvement (CHI) efforts, including guidance on how to conduct community health needs assessments (CHNAs), community health assessments (CHAs), and much more:

• Assessing and Addressing Community Health Needs
• Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE)
• Community Health Assessment Toolkit
• Community Health Improvement Hub
• County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
• Improving Population Health by Working with Communities—Action Guide
• MAP-IT  (Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track)
• Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP)
• Practical Playbook

The following resources provide data that may guide your CHNA efforts. Consider using local data sources—such as focus groups and town hall meetings with community members and stakeholders, hospital data on service utilization, local environmental, community and social services data, and local health department data.

• County Health Rankings
• Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI 2015)
• Community Need Index™
• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
• Health Indicators Warehouse
• Health System Data Center
• Vulnerable Populations Footprint – Community Commons

The following resources informed the development of the Sara Rosenbaum Principles and thus, indirectly, the key concepts shown in Tools for Successful CHI Efforts.

• Best Practices for Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy Development: archived information from 2011 CDC public forum; PHI proceedings from CDC 2011 public forum
• Early Logic Models for Community Health Improvement