Welcome to The South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Health Needs Assessment and Improvement Planning Toolkit

The South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Health Needs Assessment and Improvement Planning Toolkit supports a community-driven process for improving communities’ health throughout South Dakota. The core process steps provide a broad view of community health needs assessment and health improvement planning actions and will guide your community through the how-to, what-for, here-we-are, and now-what stages of a community health needs assessment.
Introduction
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Acknowledgements
Guiding Principles of the South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Health Needs Assessment and Improvement Planning Toolkit
Learning objectives and competencies of the South Dakota Good & Healthy
Community Health Needs Assessment and Improvement Planning Toolkit.
Foundation for Community Health
Chronic Disease and South Dakota
Understanding the evidence that chronic disease is an important health
issue and change is needed.
Public Health and the Community
Using public health to understand, assess, and improve the health of
communities.
Healthy Community
Challenging communities to work together to assess, address, and change
health behaviors.
Understanding a Community Health Needs Assessment
Collecting data to create a snapshot of the health of a community.
The Core Process Steps in Community Health Needs Assessment
and Improvement Planning
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Tools & Templates
Step 1. Build the Foundation
Key Factors for Community Change
Understanding what is necessary to support community change.
Collective Impact and Community Benefit
Understanding CHNA requirements; how hospitals and community collaboration
benefits all.
Step 2. Understand Your Community
Community Readiness
Measuring community level of readiness to take action.
Tools & Templates
More information on how to gauge the readiness of the community.
Framework for Addressing Community Health Needs
Developing a framework to address community health.
Tools & Templates
Sample CHNA Logic ModelServes as an example of a logic model developed to establish a framework to support the CHNA process. Each community framework will be different depending on local resources available to conduct a CHNA.
CHNA Logic Model TemplateUtilize the logic model template to assist with developing a community specific logic model to support the CHNA process. The coalition leading the CHNA should work with community stakeholders to create a framework for how the CHNA process will occur and impact the health of the community.
Step 3. Plan and Collaborate
Community Coalitions
The basics on coalition building.
Building a Good & Healthy Community Coalition
Steps to prepare and assist a community in starting a community
coalition.
Tools & Templates
First Community Coalition Meeting Guidelines– The first meeting is important to start the coalition off on the right foot. This offers some guidelines that can help assure a successful meeting.
Coalition Meeting Agenda Template– Tips and reminders to help keep the meeting on task, as well as a template to use for note tacking during the coalition meetings.
Coalition Member Volunteer Description– A list of suggested general and individual roles and responsibilities as a coalition member.
Key Stakeholders
Determining key members of the coalition.
Recruiting Key Members
Suggestions for getting key stakeholders to join the coalition.
Tools & Templates
Partner Recruitment TemplateContains scripted dialogue to help recruit coalition members.
Vision and Mission Statements
Writing good vision and mission statements creates the foundation
for prioritizing and action planning community health improvement.
Tools & Templates
Vision and Mission Statements Examples and TemplatesGuides to assist a community coalition in writing their vision and mission statements.
Step 4. Gather Information & Collect Data
Using Data to Assess Community Health
Recognize how utilizing data gathered from local, county, state,
and national sources can support a community health needs assessment
process to understand community health status.
Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Your Community
Identify and understand social determinants or factos in a community
that affect health status and chronic disease prevention and
control.
The South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Checklist
A tool that can completed to provide a "snapshot" of health local
regarding chronic disease prevention and control within community
sectors.
Tools & Templates
South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Checklist User Guide
South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Checklist Stakeholder Roles & Responsibilities
South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Checklist Stakeholder Roles & Responsibilities
South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Checklist Sectors: Healthcare
South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Checklist Sectors: Worksite
South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Checklist Sectors: School
South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Checklist Sectors: Community
South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Checklist Summary
CHNA Sector Engagement Talking Points
CHNA Sector Engagement Talking Points
South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Checklist References Page
Data Collection and Analysis
Using Data to Assess Community Health.
Data Collection
Data collection and analysis are core steps in the CHNA process.
Various methods are available to collect local health data.
Asset Mapping
Creating maps of the strengths and assets within the community
Tools & Templates
Template for Steps in Mapping Community Assets
Primary Data Collection
Understanding primary data collection methods and how they can
support in-depth, local data to understand the health of
a community.
Tools & Templates
Sample CHNA Focus Group Questions
Secondary Data Collection
Understand secondary data collection and how existing city, county,
and state data will describe factors that determine community
health status.
Identifying Community Health Indicators
Understanding and identifying community health indicators or
data to measure community health status at baseline and over
time.
Tools & Templates
SD Good & Healthy Community Primary Indicators This tool includes primary health indicators identified by the South Dakota Department of Health Office of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion as priorities for communities to collect data on. The tool is organized by health determinants/categories and focus areas.
SD Good & Healthy Community Additional Indicators This tool includes health indicators that are optional for South Dakota communities to collect data on to support their CHNA. The tool is a resource to assist a community with determining what Additional Indicators would be applicable to collect data on. The tool is organized by health determinants/categories and focus areas indicated in the South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Primary Indicators.
SD Good & Healthy Community Secondary Data SourcesThis list includes data sources to assist with collecting secondary data, including local, state, national, and other resources to support secondary data collection.
SD Good & Healthy Community Health Indicator TemplateServes as a modifiable template that can assist a community with collecting data on specific Primary and/or Additional Indicators. The template is organized by health determinants/categories and focus areas indicated in the South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Primary Indicator and Additional Indicators lists, as well as provides additional data sources to support any Additional Indicators communities identify to collect data on.
SD Good & Healthy Community Sample Health IndicatorsThis tool provides examples of what kind of data should be collected regarding Primary and Additional Indicators. It can assist a community with completing the South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Health Indicator Template.
Data Interpretation and Analysis
Interpretation and analysis of the CHNA data provides information
about the community’s demographics, health status, needs
and strengths, and will help you understand how the CHNA
findings compare to community residents’ behaviors and perceptions.
Step 5. Define Community Health Priorities
Using CHNA Data Results to Determine Health Priorities
How to determine and prioritize which community health issues will
be addressed.
Tools & Templates
Step 6. Disseminate CHNA Results
Organization and Dissemination of CHNA Results
Organizing community health needs assessment data results into a
informative report format, as well as understanding how to disseminate
the results to the community and inform them of the findings.
Tools & Templates
Sample CHNA Data Results Report OutlineServes as a template to guide and assist communities with developing a CHNA Data Results Report. The Resources included in this section provide additional detail regarding the contents of the outline and what kind of information should be included in a report.
Step 7. Create a Community Health Improvement Action Plan
Writing a Community Health Action Plan
Tools & Templates
Sample Community Health Action Plan- includes an example to reference when writing a community health action plan.
Community Health Action Plan Template- includes a template to use when writing a community health action plan.
Community Health Action Plan Template- includes a template to use when writing a community health action plan.
Setting S.M.A.R.T. Objectives
Understanding CHNA requirements; how hospitals and community collaboration
benefits all.
Tools & Templates
Language Hints in Writing S.M.A.R.T. Objectives– offers action verb usage hints.
Sample S.M.A.R.T. Objectives– an example of writing S.M.A.R.T. objectives.
S.M.A.R.T. Objectives Template– a template to use when writing S.M.A.R.T. objectives.
S.M.A.R.T. Objectives Template– a template to use when writing S.M.A.R.T. objectives.
Conclusion
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