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Community Health Needs Assessment: chna.org

This tool (from Community Commons and other partners) is a free web-based platform designed to assist hospitals and organizations seeking to better understand the needs and assets of their communities and to collaborate to make measurable improvements in community health and well-being. It can be found in Assess Needs & Resources...

Community Health Partnerships: Tools and Information for Development & Support

This manual (from the National Business Coalition on Health) provides tools and information about establishing successful partnerships between public health and business leaders (p. 20). It can be found in Work Together under Recruit Diverse Stakeholders From Multiple Sectors.

Community Health Scorecard Overview

This tool (from Heartland Health) outlines the benchmarks Heartland Health (St. Joseph, MO) uses to measure progress. You can consider these benchmarks as examples.

Community Listening Forum Toolkit

This tool was designed for forums focused on recovery and addiction but can easily be used for any issue. It includes sample flyers, agendas, evaluations, and training materials for speakers to help you organize a Forum in your community. It can be found in the Communicate guide under...

Community Meeting Sign In and Contact Database

This tool (from CHR&R) is a downloadable Excel spreadsheet with printable sign-in sheets and a starter contact database to help you collect and maintain contact information. It can be found in Act on What’s Important under...

Community Organizing Game

This tool (from Organizing Game) teaches the basics of door knocking and helps you practice your skills.

Community Organizing: People Power From the Grassroots

This tool (from Center for Community Change) discusses the principles, rules, and strategies of community organizing.

Community Readiness

This tool (from Community Tool Box) provides an overview of the Community Readiness Model and maps other Community Tool Box chapters and sections to the stages of readiness. It can be found in Choose Effective Policies & Programs under...

Community Readiness Model

This tool (from Tri-ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University) assesses how ready a community is to address an issue. The basic premise is that matching an intervention to a community’s level of readiness is absolutely essential for success. It can be found in...

Conducting Concerns Surveys

This tool (from Community Tool Box) describes methods for surveying citizens on different topics.

It can be found in Assess Needs & Resources under Collect Your Own Data.