Advocacy
- Affordable Care Act Implementation Fund, Community Catalyst - Support for state-based health advocates to ensure effective and consumer-focused implementation of the ACA (web - resources)
- Media Advocacy Manual, American Public Health Association - Practical how-to guide to improve the health professional’s efficiency and comfort level when addressing the media in various outlets (doc - guide)
- Tools for Advocating to the Media, The Prevention Institute - Advocacy tools and talking points emphasizing healthy, safe food and physically accessible environments (web - tools & resources)
Building Partnerships, Collaboration
Community Engagement
- Community Engagement, Minnesota Department of Health - Provides an overview of the community engagement, resources, tools and helpful links (web – toolkit)
- Consumer Engagement & Organizing, Community Catalyst - Tools for community engagement by way of storytelling and giving the health messages a human factor along with free care monitoring project (web – toolkit)
- Guide to Community Conversations, The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation - A dialogue guide, two pages, with key questions for community engagement (pdf - guide)
- How to Talk about Social Determinants of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) - Creating compelling, effective and persuasive messages that resonate across the political spectrum (web - ppp)
Comprehensive Community Health Assessment Tools
- 10 Steps in Community Health Assessment Development Process, New York State Department of Health (web - toolkit)
- ACHI Community Health Assessment Toolkit, Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI) (web - toolkit)
- CHA Community Benefit, Catholic Health Association (CHA) (web - toolkit)
- CHA/CHIP Resource Center, National Association of County & Health Officials (NACCHO) (web - toolkit)
- Community Health Assessment: A Process for Positive Change, VHA, Inc. (web - toolkit)
- Community Health Needs Assessment Toolkit, National Center for Rural Health Works (web - toolkit)
- Community Toolbox, Work Group for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas (web - toolkit)
- County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, Population Health Institute, University of Wisconsin (web - toolkit)
- Family Health Outcomes Project, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco (web - resources)
- Guidelines for Community Health Assessment, Catholic Healthcare West (doc - guide)
- Hospital Community Benefit Program, The Hilltop Institute (web - resources)
- Implementing Healthy People 2020, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - Resources and guidelines related to the MAP-IT (Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track) implementation framework (web - toolkit)
Setting Priorities
- ASACB Community Benefit Priority Setting, Advancing the State of art in Community Benefit - One page guide with key principles to help set community health priorities (doc - guide)
- Focus on What is Important, Population Health Institute, University of Wisconsin - Guide for supporting communities on setting priorities (pdf - guide)
- The Community Guide, Community Preventive Services Task Force, CDC - Guide to community preventive services toward helping communities choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease (web - resources)
- What Works for Health, Population Health Institute, University of Wisconsin - Guide toward selecting and implementing evidence-informed policies, programs, and system changes (web - interactive toolkit)