CEHA Resource Library

The purpose of this course is to equip environmental/public health professionals with strategies for successfully using the Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health(PACE EH) guidebook, a flexible and collaborative community environmental health assessment process developed by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), with support by the National Center for Environmental Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More »

Order or download PACE EH publications including the PACE EH Guidebook (in English and Spanish), PACE EH in Practice, and more. More »

Inside the PACE EH Toolkit there is an array of resources to assist implementation of NACCHO's community environmental health assessment process. The Toolkit is regularly updated as new resources become available. More »

This growing compilation of articles includes information about building a PACE EH assessment team, indicator development, health equity, and more. Articles are written by NACCHO staff and leaders in local environmental health. More »

Beginning in 2006, NACCHO CEHA staff began hosting webinars on topics ranging from innovative PACE EH site stories to how to use PACE EH with other programs and tools. More »

This collection of stories includes information about PACE EH demonstration site projects and other PACE EH processes across the country and abroad. More »

In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) contracted with the Battelle organization to develop a process evaluation report of NACCHO’s Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE EH). The Battelle PACE EH report highlights the success of the process and identifies targeted areas for improvement. From marketing strategies to technical assistance, the Battelle report profiles the types of communities likely to learn about and implement PACE EH, tracks technical assistance trends, and explores the intermediate impacts of PACE EH on agencies and communities. More »

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) along with several environmental health experts developed the Environmental Public Health Performance Standards (EnvPHPS) Local Instrument. The instrument includes a set of ten standards modeled after the National Public Health Performance Standards (NPHPS) and based on the ten Essential Services of Environmental Health. More »

NACCHO staff created this Q&A to answer some of the frequently asked questions about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new EnvPHPS. More »

In May 2008, NACCHO staff hosted a sixty-minute webinar featuring a combination of content experts and local practitioners describing the development and current use of the EnvPHPS. This webinar archive can be viewed online at no charge. More »