CHIP 2.0 – Reinvigorating partnerships and effectively revising community health improvement plans

In order to apply for accreditation through the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), Tribal, state, and local health departments must conduct a collaborative health assessment of the community they serve.  In addition to being a requirement for accreditation, these assessments and their resulting action plans can be very valuable to health departments and local partners when carving out a strategic course to follow in sustainably affecting population health outcomes.  The process of conducting a Community Health Assessment, or “CHA,” includes identifying and recruiting local stakeholders with whom to partner and collect, analyze, and present data.   To be comprehensive and illuminate population health status, CHAs should include data on local demographics, socioeconomic characteristics, behavioral health, the environment, morbidity and mortality, quality of life, local resources, community assets, and other social, Tribal, community, or state determinants of health status.  Once the CHA is complete, the health department and its partners must use the data to identify public health priorities and plan collaborative actions to improve the population’s health, the result of which is commonly referred to as a Community Health Improvement Plan, or “CHIP.” 

PHAB requires health departments to use an accepted state, national, private or other participatory model to guide the CHA and CHIP work.   Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnership (MAPP) is a community-driven strategic planning process and has become a popular model for health departments to use when working in collaboration with outside partners to assess and address priority health issues.  MAPP uses four different assessments to identify local health opportunities and potential challenges. It also provides a framework for developing specific strategies, action and evaluation frameworks.

In this interactive session, National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) staff will provide an overview of the MAPP process, and staff from the New Orleans Health Department (NOHD) will discuss the Department’s experience using the MAPP framework to conduct its CHA and CHIP.  Additionally, NOHD staff will discuss how, after a PHAB accreditation site visit, they continue to work with community partners to revisit and revise the CHIP, including thoughts on recruiting new and strategic partners, using the CHA and CHIP to inform the Department’s population health work, incorporating social determinants of health into the CHIP, working within the changing context of local politics and funding opportunities, and keeping partners motivated throughout the revision process. 

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Learning Areas:

Administration, management, leadership
Advocacy for health and health education
Assessment of individual and community needs for health education
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) process Discuss how a Community Health Improvement process can inform a health department’s approach to improving population health Explain how different types of community partners are valuable to the Community Health Improvement process Discuss how health departments may strategically recruit partners, revise Community Health Improvement action plans, and construct a sustainable Community Health Improvement framework

Keyword(s): Community-Based Partnership & Collaboration, Community Health Planning

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Community Health Improvement Program Lead at the New Orleans Health Department. I manage the community health improvement process for the Department, including the recruitment and retainment of community partners, evaluation of CHIP progress, and collaborative work within the MAPP framework to annually revise the CHIP. My professional interests include collaborative efforts to address social determinants of health and affect systems.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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