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  • Tools & Resources
  • Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning
  • Community Engagement
  • Healthy People 2030

New Resource: A Guide to Aligning Healthy People 2030 and MAPP 2.0 to Inform Local Community Health Improvement

To help address the social determinants of health and advance health equity, NACCHO partnered with the HHS Office of...

Aug 14, 2023 | Andrea Grenadier

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  • Funding Opportunity
  • Community Health
  • Performance Improvement
  • Social Determinants of Health

RFP: Improving Social Determinants of Health – Getting Further Faster Year 3: Public Health, Healthcare, Human Services Alignment

Building upon the results of Years 1 and 2 of the CDC's Improving Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) – Getting...

Feb 03, 2023 | Andrea Grenadier

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  • Funding Opportunity
  • Tools & Resources
  • Health Equity & Social Justice
  • Opportunity

RFP to Support OT-2103 Local Health Department Grant Recipients for the Roots of Health Inequity Course Facilitation and Facilitator’s Guide Revision

NACCHO, with support from the CDC, is accepting proposals to Support OT-2103 Local Health Department Grant Recipients...

Dec 19, 2022 | Andrea Grenadier

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  • Funding Opportunity
  • Communications & Public Relations
  • Community Health
  • Social Determinants of Health

Request for Proposals: Strategic Marketing and Communications for Getting Further Faster

The National Association of County and City Health Officials and the Association of State and Territorial Health...

Jun 01, 2022 | Andrea Grenadier

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  • Funding Opportunity
  • Community Health
  • Opportunity
  • Performance Improvement

Request for Application: Social Determinants of Health - Getting Further Faster Year 2: Training and Technical Assistance Coordination Center

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to identify one provider to design, establish, manage, and assess the...

Jan 24, 2022 | Andrea Grenadier

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Webinar
  • Performance Improvement
  • Social Determinants of Health

Healthy People 2030 Webinars

These webinars provide local health departments with context and examples for utilizing the Healthy People 2030...

Oct 08, 2021 | Andrea Grenadier

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Performance Improvement
  • Research & Reports
  • Social Determinants of Health

Newly Released: Healthy People 2020 Final Review Progress by Population Group

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released the Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) Final Review Progress by...

Oct 05, 2021 | Andrea Grenadier

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  • COVID-19
  • Access to Care
  • Infectious Disease
  • Social Determinants of Health

New federal program provides free COVID-19 testing for K-8 schools and congregate settings: connect with a school district in your area

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) is offering an important new federal COVID-19 testing program specifically...

Jul 19, 2021 | Andrea Grenadier

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  • Book Club
  • Health in All Policies
  • Social Determinants of Health

NACCHO Book Club: Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty

“Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending US Poverty”, critically examines public policies and how they have...

Jun 24, 2021 | Julia Mandeville

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  • Funding Opportunity
  • Social Determinants of Health

Funding Opportunity: Closing the Gap with Social Determinants of Health Accelerator Plans

Learn more about this CDC funding opportunity for local, state, tribal and territorial jurisdictions to develop an...

May 07, 2021 | Andrea Grenadier

Partner Articles

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Central District Health Department

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Sep 11, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Central District Health Department

Calhoun
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Calhoun County Health Department

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Sep 08, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Calhoun County Health Department

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Getting into the Groove: School-Located Vaccination...

NACCHO’s Immunization team has developed the School-Located Vaccination Clinic...

Aug 31, 2023 | Kayla Miller, PHAP

Getting into the Groove: School-Located Vaccination...

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning
  • Community Engagement
  • Healthy People 2030

New Resource: A Guide to Aligning Healthy People 2030...

To help address the social determinants of health and advance health equity,...

Aug 14, 2023 | Andrea Grenadier

New Resource: A Guide to Aligning Healthy People 2030...

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Pima County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Aug 14, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Pima County

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  • Community Engagement
  • Community Resilience
  • Immunization
  • Vaccine Hesitancy

Community health workers meet people where they are to...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted what we already know to be true: higher-risk...

Aug 10, 2023 | Dominique Baradaran, MSM, Interim Chief of Community Health, Oklahoma City- County Health Department

Community health workers meet people where they are to...

Brownsville
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Brownsville

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Aug 07, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Brownsville

Cook County
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cook County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 31, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cook County

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cameron County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 24, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cameron County

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: DuPage County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 17, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: DuPage County

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cass County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 10, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cass County

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning
  • Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP)
  • Healthy Aging

New Release: Indicators of Healthy Aging: A Guide to...

NACCHO, in partnership with the Trust for America’s Health and with funding...

Jun 20, 2023 | Andrea Grenadier

New Release: Indicators of Healthy Aging: A Guide to...

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