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Hackastory Tools

This website offers a comprehensive and evolving directory of tools and resources to help you build your digital stories. 

Handbook for Participatory Community Assessments

This tool (from the Alameda County, CA Health Department) walks through the process the department undertook with two neighborhood groups to conduct participatory community assessments.

Handbook of Data Collection Tools: A Companion to Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy

This tool (from Organizational Research Services) includes a number of tools for measuring advocacy and policy initiatives.

Health and Well-Being

This tool is a portion of the National Quality Forum website where you can access reports that focus on measurement and tracking progress for population health. It can be found in Evaluate Actions under...

Health Behaviors

Health Care Equity: Tool Kit for a Winning Policy Strategy

This toolkit (from The Praxis Project) provides analytical frameworks, tools, and concepts, drawing on lessons from successful grassroots policy advocacy that effectively shifted emphasis from individual blaming (behavior change) to institutional accountability (policy change).

Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions

This tool (from Commonwealth Fund and Health Research and Education Trust) provides step-by-step instructions to analyze, evaluate, and amend your institution’s practices to reduce readmissions. It can be found in the Healthcare Professional and Advocate guide under...

Health Communicator's Social Media Toolkit

This is a tool (from CDC) that provides information on all forms of social media. It can be found in Act on What's Important under Learning and Resources.

Health Equity

This tool (from ASTHO) contains sample slide presentations and examples of how states are leading health equity efforts.  It can be found in the Public Health Professional and Advocate guide under...

Health Gaps Report