Tools & Resources
What Works for Health
This tool (from CHR&R) can to help you find evidence-informed policies, programs, systems, and environmental changes that can make a difference locally.
Choosing Your Strategy
This tool (from CHR&R) provides suggested actions based on What Works for Health evidence ratings.
Website and Newsletter Templates
This tool includes language to help you publicize the County Health Rankings on your websites and in your newsletters.
Frequently Asked Evaluation Questions
This tool (from CHR&R) many commonly asked questions about evaluation with brief responses to each.
Developing a Plan for Advocacy
This tool (from Community Tool Box) reviews the key steps in planning an advocacy campaign.
Choosing an Advocacy Campaign Goal
This tool (from M + R) provides specific questions and criteria for narrowing your focus and selecting an advocacy campaign goal. It can be found in Act on What's Important under Learning...
Guide for a Follow-Up Discussion
This example (from Laura Senier) illustrates how you can use the County Health Rankings in a course (to be used with the Example of a College Level Assignment)
Example of a College Level Assignment
This example (from Laura Senier) illustrates how you can use the County Health Rankings in a course.
National Education Association Health Information Network
This tool (from NEA) provides many resources for classroom activities that address health topics. It can be found in the Educators guide under Act on What’s Important for Educators...
Alliance for a Healthier Generation Take Action: Schools
This page (from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation) outlines specific steps schools can take to create healthier school environments (free sign-in required to access tools). It can be found in the Educators guide under...