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Patient Safety

This tool (from National Quality Forum) provides resources to increase monitoring of patient safety and recommendations to improve patient safety. It can be found in the Healthcare Professional and Advocate guide under...

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Peer Counties Methodology

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps and CDC's Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) have teamed up to offer an enhanced peer county comparison feature. Find and compare counties similar to yours based on key demographic, social, and economic indicators.

Additionally, this is the methodology for the County Health Rankings...

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Peer Counties Tool

Additionally, this Excel file provides information on the groups of...

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Phases of Discussion

This tool (from Interaction Associates) is a series of tools to generate alternatives, reach agreement, and evaluate alternatives.

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Photovoice Tool

This modifiable tool (from NACCHO and East Central Kansas Public Health Coalition) describes Photovoice project guidelines for participants. It also contains example consent forms.

It can be found in Assess Needs & Resources under...

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PHRASES Framing and Messaging Toolkit

This toolkit (from Public Health Reaching Across Sectors) provides evidence-based framing and messaging tools and strategies to help public health professionals communicate across sectors.

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PICO

This organization (PICO) is a national network of faith-based community organizations working to create innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities. It can be found in the Community Member guide under...

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Place Matters: Bringing Community Development and Health Leaders Together

This tool (from RWJF) is an interview with David Williams articulating the importance of community development and health working together. It can be found in the Community Development guide under...

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Policy Advocacy Choice Tool

This tool (from CHR&R) is a step-by-step process to help groups select the policy or systems change that will have the greatest likelihood of successful adoption in their communities. Use it along with the Policy Advocacy Choice Worksheet.

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Possible Community Health Indicators

This tool (from Community Tool Box) describes what community needs and resources are and why, when and how to identify them. It includes a variety of indicators (e.g., children in poverty, unemployment rate), what they are an indicator of (e.g., social environment, prosperity), and potential sources of data (e.g., Census, state employment office).