Live Healthy Napa County

Creating and Sustaining a Common

Agenda

LHNC Vision

In Napa County, community members will take responsibility for improving and sustaining health through shared leadership, strategic planning, meaningful community engagement and coordinated action.

Why Live Healthy Napa County?

Increase health and quality of life for all individuals, families, and communities in Napa County.

Move away from a focus exclusively on sickness and disease to one based on prevention and wellness.

Create opportunities to have collective impact in the community

Getting Started

2013 Community Health Assessment (CHA) A comprehensive assessment that establishes the foundation for sustainable improvements in health in Napa County. Included three assessments:

The Community Themes, Strengths, and Forces of Change Assessment

A Local Public Health Assessment

The Community Health Status Assessment

Planning Structure:Roles and Responsibilities

Steering CommitteeProvides draft vision and goals, frames

planning process, formally adopts documents

Core Support TeamOversees communications, monitors planning process, reviews documents and makes recommendations for

steering committee

Community StakeholdersProvide input on existing conditions, community needs, and potential

solutions to inform the Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan

May also be part of the steering committee

Defining the Agenda

2014 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) The CHIP is a long-term, systematic effort to address public health based on the results of the CHA and a community health improvement process. It provides support for developing new policies and determining health promotion strategies.

2014 CHIP Priority Areas

Improve Wellness & Healthy Lifestyles

Address the Social Determinants of Health

Create & strengthen sustainable partnerships for collective impact

Ensure access to high quality health services & social supports across the life course

Moving to Action

2014 Community Health Action Plan Provides a roadmap for stakeholders to begin implementing the CHIP. The plan details strategic steps that put the four broad priority areas into action, prioritizing the health of Napa County residents while simultaneously aligning with health improvement efforts at the state and national levels.

Component Plans

Obesity Prevention Our community embraces a culture of health

where every person has access to and is aware of nutritious food, opportunities for exercise, and safe outdoor places that inspire people to be active and thrive.

Behavioral Health A community of enduring strength where every

person lives a healthy, thriving, meaningful life and has access to integrated and compassionate services

Poverty Prevention and Reduction

Successes

Obesity Prevention Plan and Healthy Bodies Coalition

Charter for Compassion Bridges out of Poverty Event Completion and/or Progress with

Strategies New Partnerships Formed

Challenges

Developing collaborative structure of LHNC Defining roles, responsibilities and decision

making process Creating parameters for plans,

strategies, and activities under a broad vision

Questions?