Community Health Assessment Toolkit Resources

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Step 1. Reflect and Strategize

Component	Resource/Tool	Description
Framework	Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Prevention Quality Indicators	Resources to help identify potential health care quality problems in the community
	Catholic Health Association: Assessing and Addressing Community Health Needs	Overview of required and recommended steps for assessing community health needs and developing implementation strategies
	Community Commons: Community Health Needs Assessment Tool	Platform to help hospitals identify health needs and conduct measurable improvements
	Community Preventive Services Task Force: The Guide to Community Preventive Services	Collection of tools such as case studies, fact sheets, evaluations and templates to help collect data and implement prevention strategies

Step 2. Identify and Engage Stakeholders

Component	Resource/Tool	Description
Asset Mapping	Health Research & Educational Trust: Asset Mapping Template	Asset mapping template to help answer key questions about the community and hospital
	Healthy! Capital Counties: Asset Mapping	Worksheet used to identify community assets
	Northwestern University: Asset-Based Community Development Institute Toolkit	List of resources collected from a variety of individuals and organizations, in three categories: talking points, asset mapping and facilitating

Step 3. Define the Community

Component	Resource/Tool	Description
Framework	Public Health Institute: Supporting Alignment and Accountability in Community Health Improvement	Report that examines the community health assessments and implementation strategies of tax-exempt hospitals with a focus on how community is defined

Step 4. Collect and Analyze Data

Component	Resource/Tool	Description
Framework	The Examining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group: Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum	Framework and resources for community-based participatory research
	University of Wisconsin/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps Approach	Description of health-related factors in a community that can be identified and improved to establish the highest potential of health and well-being
	University of Wisconsin/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps	Framework for collecting information based on health indicators reflecting the health of a community
Data Collection Tools	Community Tool Box: Conducting Needs Assessment Surveys	Detailed processes of survey development and execution, and type of data to collect
Data Sets	Community Commons: Vulnerable Population Footprint	National health data set
	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Community Health Status Indicators	National health data set
	Dignity Health: Community Need Index	National health data set
	United States Census Bureau: American FactFinder	National health data set
	United States Department of Health & Human Services: HealthData	National health data set
	University of Wisconsin: Area Deprivation Index	National health data set
Community Engagement	Health Research & Educational Trust/Association for Community Health Improvement: Applying Research Principles to the Community Health Needs Assessment Process	Report identifying tools and research principles to support CHAs, including patient- and community-centered practices and evidence-based resources to integrate into data collection during the CHA process
Community Engagement	Health Research & Educational Trust/Association for Community Health Improvement: Engaging Patients and Communities in the Community Health Needs Assessment Process	Report that highlights ways patients and communities can be involved in the development of their hospital’s CHA

Step 5. Prioritize Community Health Issues

Component	Resource/Tool	Description
Prioritization Tools	Community Commons: Kaiser Permanente Community Health Needs Assessment Platform	Kaiser Permanente’s platform for community health assessments
Prioritization Tools	National Association of County and City Health Officials: First Things First: Prioritizing Health Problems	Detailed descriptions of how to prioritize health needs based on prioritization methods

Step 6. Document and Communicate Results

Component	Resource/Tool	Description
Data Presentation Tools	Data Therapy: How to Make a Data Mural	Framework for developing a data mural to show community impact
	Public Health Foundation: Planning Before You Communicate Tool	Tool to help with designing consistent and clear communications both internally and externally
	S.D.H. Evergreen Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data	Book on the importance of captivating readers with interactive methods of displaying qualitative data
	S.D.H Evergreen: Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact	Book that offers guiding principles on how to effectively present data

Step 7. Plan Implementation Strategies

Component	Resource/Tool	Description
Framework	Collaboration for Impact: The Collective Impact Framework	Approach that highlights the importance of building a greater impact on the community’s health through collaboration
	Public Health Foundation: Community Stakeholder Services Map	Tool that assists with identifying services affiliated with a community health issue
	Public Health Foundation: Population Health Driver Diagram Framework	Tool that helps identify primary and secondary drivers of an identified community health objective and serves as a framework for encouraging health care and public health sectors to collaborate and align community health efforts or interventions
	T.R. Frieden: The Health Impact Pyramid	Framework that describes the impact of incorporating different public health interventions based on community needs
Tools and Evidence-Based Programs	Community Preventive Services Task Force: The Guide to Community Preventive Services	Collection of tools such as case studies, fact sheets, evaluations and templates to help collect data and implement prevention strategies
	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: 6I18 Initiative	Initiative focusing on the implementation of 18 evidence-based interventions that target six high-burden conditions
	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Community Health Improvement Navigator	An interactive database of interventions to address socioeconomic factors, the physical environment, health behaviors and clinical care
	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health Impact in 5 Years (HI-5)	Strategies for achieving health impact in five years.
	University of Wisconsin/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps What Works for Health	Provides information to help select and implement evidence-informed policies, programs and system changes
Health Impact Assessments	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health Impact Assessment	Overview of health impact assessments, including links to resources
	Human Impact Partners: New to Health Impact Assessments?	Resources and tools to develop health impact assessments
	Human Impact Partners/Group Health Research Institute: Community Participation in Health Impact Assessments	Information related to community participation in health impact assessments
	National Research Council: Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment	Publication that provides guidance on conducting health impact assessments
	Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessment: Health Impact Assessment Guidance and Tools	Resources and tools to develop health impact assessments

Step 8. Implement Strategies

Component	Resource/Tool	Description
Action Plan	South Dakota Department of Health: Writing a Community Health Action Plan	Provides steps for writing an action plan

Step 9. Evaluate Progress

Component	Resource/Tool	Description
Evaluation Tools	Catholic Health Association: Evaluating Your Community Benefit Impact	Resource to help community benefit leaders evaluate the quality and importance of their community benefit programs and report and use findings
	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Framework for Program Evaluation	Tool that summarizes and organizes steps and standards for effective program evaluation
	Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Plan-Do-Study-Act	Framework to guide improvement work