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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 health workers
Engage professional or lay health workers to provide education, referral and follow-up, case management, home visiting, etc. for those who experience barriers in accessing health care; also called promotoras(es) de salud or community health representatives
Community kitchens for food processing
Establish shared kitchen spaces that support licensed, commercial food processing and connect specialty food processors, farmers, and others who produce value-added goods
Community kitchens for nutrition education
Use existing kitchen spaces for community members to share knowledge, resources, and labor to prepare, cook, and consume food, often with nutrition education provided for participants experiencing food insecurity
Community land trusts
Purchase the land a home is on to lease to homeowners with low and middle incomes and require homeowners to sell the home back to the trust or to another resident with low income upon moving
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 in public health
Advance public health by using community organizing methods, such as developing leadership, campaigning, and building power to influence decisions, agendas, and worldviews, by collaborating with community organizing groups to use these methods, or both
Community Organizing: People Power From the Grassroots
This tool (from Center for Community Change) discusses the principles, rules, and strategies of community organizing.