Tools & Resources
What Works for Health Shortcut
Looking for a shortcut to effectively use What Works for Health, our tool to help you find evidence-informed policies, programs, systems, and environmental changes that can make a difference locally? We've added a new resource to help you do just that.
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.
The Planner's Playbook: A Community-Centered Approach to Improving Health & Equity
The Planner’s Playbook: A Community-Centered Approach to Improving Health & Equity (from ChangeLab Solutions) provides guidance, resources, concrete steps, and examples for planners who wish to center equity in their planning practice, with the aim of producing communities of opportunity and prosperity for all.
SparkMap Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)
This Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) tool, developed by the Center for Applied Research and Engagement Systems (CARES) at the University of Missouri, supports users in assessing the health of their communities. Users can create custom data reports at the county-level using a wide range of indicators from many data sources, including the County Health Rankings.
Building Your Partnership's Capacity for Change
This guide (from CHR&R) provides tools and ideas that help you assess your partnership's strengths and capacity needs, and explore how to further maximize your existing network and build connections with those who believe in your mission and want to invest in your community.
Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health: A Checklist on Steps and Standards
This tool (from The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University) provides actionable guidance and checklists for completing a program evaluation process.
Intervention Planning Matrix: Activity to support learning
This downloadable PowerPoint slide deck lays out an activity to use with your partners to practice using the Intervention Planning Matrix.
What is Policy?
This 2-page introductory fact sheet from Change Lab Solutions can help you introduce partners to the concept of policy change.
Coalition Core Competencies Checklist
This tool (from Missouri Foundation for Health's Social Innovation for Missouri Project) helps your team identify where your strengths are in the improvement process and where additional skills, knowledge, and/or resources may be needed.