CHA/CHIP trainings and tools

• Training Presentation: Developing the CHIP: The Basics - This presentation describes common steps in developing a CHIP and the general components of a CHIP.
• Training Presentation: Prioritizing Issues - This presentation describes different types of criteria that should be considered in the prioritization process, tools or methods to use for issue prioritization, how to design a process that ensures attention to health condition priorities, system-level issues, and social determinants of health, how to involve project staff, community members and partners in the process, and more.
• Training Presentation: Key Elements of Community Health Improvement Planning: From Assessment to Action Planning - This presentation describes considerations for developing goals for identified priorities, plans to engage or re-energize community member and partner engagement, why a logic model is useful in CHIP development, steps to begin creating a logic model, and more.
• Training Presentation: Developing Goals, Objectives, and Performance Indicators for CHIPs - This presentation describes the difference between a goal, objective and performance indicator, discusses how national guidance can be used to guide development, provides information on how to write realistic, measurable and time-framed objectives, a description of one LHDs work in this area, and more.
• Training Presentation: Choosing Strategies and Tactics for Health Improvement - This presentation describes evidence and/or practice based strategies for consideration in addressing priority issues, describes considerations for adoption a model or promising practice, describes a multi-intervention approach or strategy ''bundling'' to maximize effectiveness, and more.
• Training Presentation: Identifying Effective Strategies to Address the Social Determinants of Health - This presentation describes the project and PHAB documentation requirements for strategy selection and implementation, discusses what types of actions will best address the root causes of health inequities or social determinants of health, discusses the role of policy change in addressing the social determinants of health, and more.
• Training Presentation: Unlocking the Secrets of Successful CHIP Implementation - This webinar describes fundamental elements to successfully implement CHIPs, identifies tactics to engage new or re-engage existing partners in the process, discusses strategies to balance and align individual and organizational interests with the community's vision, and more.
  
• Training Presentation: Planning for CHIP Monitoring and Evaluation - This webinar describes the relationship between key elements of the CHIP, quality improvement work, and evaluation, discusses strategies for developing and implementation plan based on CHIP goals, objectives, outcome and performance indicators, provides a LHD case example, and more.
• Training Presentation: Collaborating with Partners and Community for Policy Change - This webinar describes the various meanings of policy change as it relates to health improvement, discusses effective strategies for working with policymakers, and more.
  
• Training Presentation: Distributing and Communicating about the CHIP - This webinar describes CHIP communication plans, identifies ways to overcome potential challenges in communicating about the CHIP, planning for how a variety of partners and community members will contribute to CHIP communication efforts, and more.

Tool: CHIP Template Implementation Plan

This modifiable tool was developed by the Wisconsin CHIPP Infrastructure Improvement Project and is a template for one specific aspect of action planning for impact: a well thought-out implementation plan. Some of the critical parts of this plan include: priority areas, broad goals, specific and measurable objectives, and more.This template will help your community to create a plan that is focused and evidence based and that will help you stay on track.

Action Plan Template Kit

This modifiable tool was developed by Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department (TX) and is a template for their action planning process to ensure it is evidence based. The template is meant to ensure the CHIP is action-oriented and will also them and hospitals achieve specific required related to health improvement.

Facilitator Guide for Different Steps of Implementation Planning

These modifiable tools were developed by the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department (TX) and are a facilitator's guides for guiding discussion on different aspects of CHIP implementation planning.

• Developing Goals and Objectives
• Developing Objectives
• Developing Strategies and Indicators
• Developing Indicators and Activities

Evidence-based Strategies

These resources were created by communityiess and list out different resources for evidence-based strategies.

• From Norwalk Health Department, CT
• From Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department, TX

These modifiable tools were created by each community and they match up evidence based strategies to their identified priority issue areas.

• From Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department, TX
• From Norwalk Health Department, CT

Example: Priority Area Infographics

These example infographics were created by Dallas County Health and Human Services, TX. Each contains both quantitative and qualitative information for each of the four chosen priority areas.