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Date: 5/30/2018

Public Health Learning

June 2018

Achieving Healthier Populations & Communities

Get Ready to Celebrate Community Health Improvement Week

Community Health Improvement Week is June 3-9, 2018. The goal of this week is to raise awareness, demonstrate impact, and celebrate the individuals and organizations that work to advance the health and well-being of their communities. Get involved by taking one of the more than 150 community health trainings available through the TRAIN Learning Network.

Did you know?

Investing in community health initiatives helps to lower child hospitalization rates, the number of child emergency room visits, and diabetic amputation rates? Learn more at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Community Health in Action page .

Community Health Resources

Solving Population Health Problems through Collaboration provides insights from more than 50 experts to help navigate partnerships between public health departments, hospitals, and their community partners to improve health. This book offers step-by-step collaboration advice for leadership and staff during this time of rapid change in healthcare and public health.

The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) is a collection of evidence-based findings of the Community Preventive Services Task Force. The Community Guide is a resource to help you select interventions to improve health and prevent disease in your state, community, community organization, business, healthcare organization, or school.

Health and Well-Being for All: Meeting-in-a-Box is a tool for accelerating learning about social determinants of health. Use this interactive resource to facilitate conversations with colleagues, students, and partners to create change agents, collaborate across sectors, and address the core issues affecting health in your community.

The Community Health Assessment Toolkit offers a nine-step pathway for conducting a community health assessment and developing implementation strategies.

Training Spotlight:

Get Your CHIP Off the Shelf and Into Practice

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) helps organizations and communities to develop, implement, and continuously improve strategies that are focused on making a positive, well-coordinated impact on the health of the population. During the facilitated training, the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) Tune-up, PHF experts will guide your organization to ensure:

Effective selection of strategies and improvement interventions
Effective coordination of efforts across community organizations
Effective development of objectives, targets, and measures
Appropriate adjustment of strategies and interventions along the way

Ready to get started? Learn more about the CHIP Tune-up and other PHF Performance Improvement Services .

Community Health Events / Webinars

Webinar: AHD Webinar Series: Building AHD Partnerships in Rural Areas .

June 6, 2018. 2-3pm EDT.

Sponsor: Public Health Foundation

Webinar: Bridging the Cultural Divide - The Role of Community Health Representatives/Workers in Environmental Public Health .

June 7, 2018. 2-3pm ET.

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Upcoming Webinar: Taking Action on Community Health Improvement Priorities

Join PHF and the Catholic Health Association on Tuesday, May 29, 2018 from 1-2pm EDT for an interactive webinar focused on taking action to improve community health. This presentation will feature two communities participating in the Using The Community Guide for Community Health Improvement pilot initiative and offer success stories, lessons learned, and unique perspectives from Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, LA and Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center in Portsmouth, VA. These hospitals are working with public health and other community stakeholders, exploring evidence-based strategies, and taking specific actions to address HIV/AIDS and obesity to improve the health of their communities. This webinar is free and open to all. Please register today as space is limited .

Stay Connected

Email: training@phf.org

Website: www.train.org

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