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Engaging Partners, Stakeholders and Community Members


The CHA/CHIP Resource Center
 
 

This tab contains trainings and customizable tools on the following topics:

  • Engaging Partners and Stakeholders, Including Elected Officials
  • Engaging Community Members

For a complete list of additional, existing resources around engaging partners, stakeholders and community members, click here.

 
Trainings*
 
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Training Presentation: Engaging Local Public Health System Partners
  • Part 1 (General information about engaging local public health system partners): Click here to access the presentation slides.
  • Part 2 (Engaging your hospital partners): Click here to access the presentation slides.
  • Part 3 (Engaging your academic partners): Click here to access the presentation slides.
 
 
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Training Presentation: Engaging Community Members
  • Click here to access the presentation slides.
 
 
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Webinar Recording: Facilitating Meetings of Diverse Groups of People
This two hour webinar identifies key components of planning and designing community meetings with partners and community members; discusses techniques for increasing participation; names facilitation ''dos'' and ''don''ts''; and outlines specific points in the development of CHAs and CHIPs where facilitation is valuable.

  • Watch the free archived recording of this webinar.
  • Access the presentation slides.
 
 
*The training webinars and presentations posted in the CHA/CHIP Resource Center were developed for the 12 CHA/CHIP LHD Demonstration Sites as part of their training and technical assistance curriculum. They are included here as a resource for all LHDS.
 
Tools to Assist You in Engaging Partners, Stakeholders, Community Members, and Media
 
The tools below are available in their original file format for you to download and customize for your own use.
 
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Exercise and Example - Circles of Involvement
Exercise: Use this worksheet to help identify public health system and community partners that should be involved in the community health improvement process. More »

Example: This is an example of Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services' (TX) completed circle of involvement model outlining the partners they plan to include in their community health improvement process. More »
 
 
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Tool- Advisory Committee Invitation
Below are two customizable invitation letters that can be sent to community partners inviting them to serve on the advisory committee for the community health improvement process.

  • From Barry-Eaton District Health Department (MI) More »
  • From Kittitas County Public Health Department (WA) More »
 
 
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Tool- Steering Committee Letter of Commitment
This letter of commitment is a customizable tool that can be sent to selected steering committee members to solidify their commitment to serve as a steering committee member for the community health improvement process (from Kittitas County Public Health Department (WA)). More »
 
 
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Tool- Advisory Committee Spreadsheet
This spreadsheet is a customizable tool that is one way to organize contact information for advisory committee members (from Barry-Eaton District Health Department (MI)). More »
 
 
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Tool- Advisory Committee Meeting Presentation
This presentation tool was used by Barry-Eaton District Health Department (MI) during a Healthy! Capital Counties advisory committee meeting and outlines their progress in the community health improvement process and discusses visioning, indicator selection, geographic groupings for their community, and pitfall sharing. More »
 
 
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Tool - Advisory Committee Meeting Prezi Presentation
This Prezi presentation tool describes Barry-Eaton District Health Department's (MI) community health improvement process and was presented to their advisory committee. It is an example of way to make a fun and unique presentation. More »
 
 
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Tool- Core Team Meeting Presentation
This modifiable presentation tool was used by Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department during a core team planning meeting and describes CHAs and CHIPs for their core team as well as roles and responsibilities and next steps. More »
 
 
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Tool- Presentations to Partners and Committee Members
  • This modifiable presentation tool was used by Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department during an accreditation committee meeting and describes CHAs and CHIPs, their partners, subcommittees' roles and responsibilities, and next steps. More »
  • This modifiable presentation was used by Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department during a Public Health and Human Services subcommittee meeting and describes their community health improvement planning work. More »
 
 
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Tool- Talking Points for CHAs and CHIPs
These talking point tools are examples of ways to communicate information about CHAs and CHIPs to partners, stakeholders and community members.

  • This overview document is a customizable tool that is one community's description of their CHA process and timeline (from Barry-Eaton District Health Department (MI)).
  • This document is a tool that is one community's talking points about their community health improvement process (from Gallatin City-County Health Department (MT)).
  • This document is a tool that is Austin Travis County Health and Human Services Department's one-page description of the who, what, where, and when of the CHA and CHIP. It is written with a 5th grade literacy level in both English and Spanish.
 
 
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Tool - Core Team/Steering and/or Advisory Committee Meeting Agendas and Minutes
Below are customizable agendas that were used during each community's first CHA/CHIP core team/steering committee meeting.

  • From East Central Kansas Public Health Coalition (KS) More »
  • From New Orleans Health Department (LA) More »
  • From Kittitas County Public Health Department (WA) Facilitator's; External
  • From Healthy!Capital Counties (MI) More »

Below are example agendas that were used during each community's regular CHA/CHIP core team/steering and/or advisory committee meetings.
 
 
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Tool- Two Models of CHA/CHIP Roles

These customizable tools are two proposed role and responsibility assignment descriptions for each of the eight participating LHDs and their partners in the East Central Kansas Public Health Coalition (KS). This is a coalition of eight LHDs who have formally shared services who are jointly conducting a CHA and developing a CHIP across all eight LHD jurisdictions.

Model 1: More »

Model 2: More »
 
 
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Handouts to Assist You in Engaging Partners
 Below are handouts that may assist you in engaging partners, community members and stakeholders.

  • Together! Healthy Knox Leadership Team summary of lessons learned and advice. More »
  • The Local Public Health System Assessment of MAPP/The National Public Health Performance Standards Local Tool: A Community-Based Public Health Practice and Academic Collaborative Approach to Implementation. More »
  • Students in the Community: MAPP as a Framework for Academic-Public Health Practice Linkages. More »
 
 
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Tools - Community Member Forum
Checklist: This modifiable tool was created by Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services (TX) and is a checklist to help them prepare for their community forum meetings. More »

Flyers and Postcards:

  • This tool provides an advertisement for a community member open forum in both English and Spanish. (Submitted by Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department, TX) More »
  • This modifiable tool is a postcard used by one community to advertise their community open house intended to collect the input and perspective of the community. English Spanish

Press Releases and Public Service Announcements:

  • This modifiable tool is a press release used by one community to advertise and raise awareness about an upcoming community member open house forum (Submitted by Kittitas County Public Health Department, WA). More »
  • This modifiable tool is one community's 60 second and 30 second public service announcement used to spread awareness about their upcoming community member open house forum (Submitted by Kittitas County Public Health Department, WA). More »

Agendas: This modifiable tool is one community's agenda for their community forum (Submitted by Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department (TX)). More »

Summary: This modifiable tool is a summary of one community's 'Journey to Health' community member open house forum, including a summary of each of the different activities (e.g., bean counting station texting poll, etc.) (Submitted by Kittitas County Public Health Department, WA). More »
 
 
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Tool- Media and Communications Plan
This modifiable tool was created by the Healthy!CapitalCounties (MI) partnership and describes their 2012 media and communications plan for their community health improvement process. More »
 
 
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Tool- Interlocal Cooperation Agreement
This modifiable tool is an example Interlocal Cooperation Agreement between an LHD and their academic partner for their community health improvement process. (Submitted by Kiittitas County Public Health Department, WA). More »
 
 
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Tool- Project/Committee Charter
These modifiable tools are example project charters created by each community for their community health improvement process. It describes the scope of work and roles and responsibilities of key partners.
 
 
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Tools- Planning and Conducting Meetings
  • Meeting Availability Questionnaire: This modifiable tool is a questionnaire given to steering committee members to assess their meeting availability (Submitted by Kittitas County Public Health Department, WA)). More »
  • Meeting Evaluation: This modifiable tool is an example meeting evaluation given to one community's steering committee members at the end of each steering committee meeting. (Submitted by Kittitas County Public Health Department (WA)). More »
 
 
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Tools - Press Release
Press Releases and Public Service Announcements:
  • This modifiable tools is a press release used by one community to advertise their community health survey that sought input from community members (Submitted by Kittitas County Public Health Department, WA). More »
  • This modifiable tool is a press release used by one community to advertise and raise awareness about an upcoming community member open house forum (Submitted by Kittitas County Public Health Department, WA). More »
  • This modifiable tool is one community's 60 second and 30 second public service announcement used to spread awareness about their upcoming community member open house forum (Submitted by Kittitas County Public Health Department, WA). More »
 
 
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Tool- Process Evaluation
This tool was developed by Kittitas County Public Health Department, WA and is a process evaluation questionnaire administered to individuals involved in the CHA and/or CHIP work. More »
 
 
 
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