CHNA/CHIP Resource Inventory
Resource Categories
Community Engagement
Community Engagement Assessment Tool
A checklist for assessing multiple dimensions of community engagement and identifying opportunities to strengthen engagement efforts.
Community Exchange Toolkit: Building Purpose & Participation
(Introductory Video)
Offers people-centered strategies and a roadmap for ensuring community needs, ideas, and visions inform public investments and community-driven development.
Wheel of Engagement: Exercise
An interactive exercise that helps participants identify their desired level of involvement in a group’s opportunities and work.
Community Health Improvement Navigator
Guidance and tools for engaging diverse stakeholders throughout the community health improvement process, including partnership development, community input, and relevant CHNA requirements.
Guidance, Framework & Data
Hospitals in Community Partnerships for Community Health Improvement: What’s Working
Highlights best practices for hospital-community partnerships, including collaborative assessment and prioritization, flexible leadership, policy/systems/environment strategies, targeted data collection, and long-term collaboration.
American Hospital Association Community Health Assessment Toolkit
A nine-step guide to help hospitals and health systems collaborate with communities and strategic partners to conduct effective community health assessments and meet CHNA requirements.
CHA/CHIP Strategic Plan Guidance Documents
Guidance documents that walk agencies through key steps for completing a community health assessment, community health improvement plan, and strategic plan.
CHIP/CHA Resources
Resources supporting community health assessment and community health improvement plan development.
MCH Needs Assessment Toolkit
Guidance for Title V agencies on the maternal and child health needs assessment process.
Prioritization
Prioritization Matrix
A tool for narrowing options by systematically comparing choices using selected and weighted criteria.
CHNAs: Setting Priorities
Video guidance on prioritizing community needs after data analysis is complete.
Guide to Prioritization Techniques
Step-by-step guidance on five commonly used prioritization methods, including how to select an approach and practical examples.
Inclusive Healthy Communities Model — Phase 3: Prioritization & Planning
Guidance for Disability and Health grantees on prioritization and planning within the Inclusive Healthy Communities Model.
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