Community Health Improvement in Action(CHIA)

CHIA Overview • What is the CHIA project?• What distinguishes funded partners from

other participants? • What are our first steps?• Q and A

CHIA• Funding provided by the UW School of Medicine and Public

Health from the Wisconsin Partnership Program

• $400,000 three-year grant (June 2014 - May 2017)

• Funded Partners:• Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards (WALHDAB)

• UW Population Health Institute

Some of our Key Partners

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CHIA Project Goal

• Strengthen communities’ capacity to implement and evaluate effective community health improvement activities– Applied to unhealthy and risky

alcohol use• Build momentum toward

statewide or regional impact

60/72 Counties Prioritized Alcohol

www.improvingwihealth.orgSept. 2014, UW Pop. Health

CHIA objectives respond to community-identified needs

• Increased knowledge and skills to develop, implement, and evaluate policy, systems and environmental change

• Increased use of evidence-based interventions and evaluation plans

• More coordinated state or regional efforts

CHIA will build a Community of Practice (CoP)

• In-person:– 2 Statewide

Summits (fall 2015, fall 2016)

– Expert-facilitated training

CHIA will build a CoP

• Electronically:– 10 Webinars– A Google Group online forum– Conference calls

CHIA CoP

• Participants will use CHIA tools that address unhealthy and risky alcohol use:

– Updated pick list of evidence-based practices

– Community dashboard models to measure progress

– A shared logic model to build momentum toward statewide or regional impact

Benefits of Participation in the CoP Knowledge about policy, systems and environmental change and sources for evidence-based strategies. Skills to develop local policies and advocate for their implementation. Quality and focus of local plans’ specific objectives, action steps, and evaluation plans.

Use of evidence-based interventions.

Benefits of Participation in the CoP

Ability to engage participants from multiple sectors in community health improvement activities Capacity to lead community health assessment and improvement plans and processes

Readiness for accreditation (for local health departments and tribal health entities).

Compliance with IRS requirements (for hospitals).

Some CHIA CoP Activities Available to All

• Webinars• Summits• Online forum

Funded Partner Communities

• 18 communities will also receive:– In-person training– Technical assistance– Free summit

registration for up to 4 participants per community

– $2,200 to support participation

Help us Measure CHIA’s Impact

• Deliverables: – Pre/Post project assessment– Short surveys • After each activity

(webinars, trainings, summits) or every 6 months (online forum)

– Focus group participation

First Steps

www.WICommunityHealth.org

Online Forum: Google Group

• Today’s webinar participants and funded partner lead contacts will be directly added to the CHIA Google Group- No need to sign up• Please introduce

yourself by answering our New Member Questions

CHIA Google Group: Invite Others

• To invite others to join, email me with their contact information (name, email) and I will invite them.

Posting via email

• To start a new topic: – Send an email to

wicommunityhealth@googlegroups.com

• To reply to a post:–“Reply All” to post to the forum– “Reply” will only reach the author of the post

Optional: Use the Google Group Interface

• You need to have a Google account (Gmail) to use the online interface.– Create one for free at Google.com, or use your

existing gmail.• Email me with the address and I’ll add your

Gmail address to the group.

Posting via Google Group interface• http://groups.google.com/group/wicommunit

yhealth• Start a conversation: New Topic

Replying via Google Group interface

• Click on the post you want to reply to and then “Post Reply.”

Baseline data: Document review

• Send us a weblink to or a pdf of:– Your community’s most recent CHA, CHIP, and

CHNA(s).– All related work/action plans to implement community

health improvement activities. – All related evaluation plans to measure the process and

impact outcomes of the community health improvement plan(s).

– Any interim reports of your community’s progress to implement your CHIP.

Baseline Data: Survey

• About 20 questions re: your community health improvement effort

Technical Assistance Contacts

• Call or email me anytime with questions.

• After reviewing baseline data, I will contact you to discuss:– Your current challenges and

opportunities– Your plans for the next few

months

First In-Person Training and Webinar

• This quarter… stay tuned!– Poll for dates

Questions?

• Visit Resources for Improving Community Health: www.WICommunityHealth.org

• Contact Sara Jesse: 608-432-3042 or sara.jesse@badgerbay.co