South Dakota Good & Healthy Community Health Needs Assessment and Improvement Planning Toolkit

Community Coalition: ______

The timeline is a tracking method to assist community coalitions in maintaining a timeline and tracking activities. It aligns with the Core Process Steps in Community Health Needs Assessment and Improvement Planning

Build the Foundation / Understand your Community / Plan and Collaborate / Gather Information and Collect Data / Define Community Health Priorities / DisseminateCHNA Results / Community Health Action Plan
Community Health Needs Assessment Timeline / Year
Month
November / December / January / February / March / April / August / September / October / November / December / January / February / March / April
Planned
Activity
Build the Foundation
Determine key factors for community change
Inform the community
Identify financial and non-financial resources
Understand your Community
Define community
Define Scope of assessment
Determine community readiness.
Develop a framework to assess health.
Plan and Collaborate
Build a coalition
Assemble a core group
Build the workgroups
Create key partnerships
Recruit members
Create vision and mission statements
Determine stakeholder roles and responsibilities
Adopt a planning structure to facilitate CHNA
Gather Information and Collect Data
Ensure the interests of disparate populations
Develop a data management process
Map assets of community
Create an inventory map of community assets
Complete SD Good & Healthy Checklist tool for local chronic disease prevention and control
Collect secondary data
Identify additional data needs
Collect primary data as needed
Interpret and Analyze Data
Define Community Health Priorities
Determine priority health issues to address based on data
Disseminate CHNA Results
Document and communicate key findings
Organize information into categories (i.e. strengths, gaps, opportunities challenges)
Develop a community health needs assessment (CHNA) summary report
Publicize the CHNA report
Share the report with stakeholders
Community Health Action Plan
Write a community health action plan
Develop SMART goals, objectives, and strategies
Obtain public and stakeholder input