Trainings and Resources

• Montana Community Health Assessment Guide
• CHA Toolkit
• Example Timelines

Data Resources: 

• Insights Dashboard
• Community Health Data Resources 

Identifying Health Priorities:

• Focus on What's Important
• Prioritization Techniques (Guide) (PDF)

• Plan to Plan CHIP 1 - A Community Health Improvement Plan
• Plan to Plan CHIP 2 - Community Health Priorities
• Plan to Plan CHIP 3 - Writing your CHIP

CHIP Resources:

• CHIP Matrix
• CHIP Handbook
• Community Preventive Services Guide
• Influencing Policy Development 
• Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
• SMART Objectives (Evaluation Brief 3b) (PDF)
• Writing Meaningful Goals and SMART Objectives
• Example Timelines

If you are interested in strategic planning technical assistance, please contact HHSPHSDBuildingHealthySystems@mt.gov.  

• Insights Dashboard
• CHA and CHNA Findings Dashboard
• Completed CHAs, CHIPs, and Strategic Plans
• Healthy People 2023 Tool for CHAs and CHIPs

Introduction to Data Collection:

• An Introduction to Community Assessment and Data Collection

Primary Data Collection:

• Community Assessment: Conducting Surveys
• Community Assessment: Conducting Windshield and Walking Surveys
• Community Walking Assessment Quick Guide (PDF), Participant Guide (PDF), and Presentation Slides (PPT)
• Conducting Focus Groups
• Conducting Key Informant Interviews
• Data Collection Methods for Program Evaluation: Interviews (Evaluation Brief 17) (PDF)
• Data Collection Methods for Program Evaluation: Questionnaires (Evaluation Brief 14) (PDF)
• Using Ordered Response Options to Collect Evaluation Data (Evaluation Brief 23)
• Using Incentives to Boost Response Rates (Evaluation Brief 22) (PDF)
• Using Electronic Health Data for Community Health (PDF)
• Analyzing Qualitative Data for Evaluation (Evaluation Brief 19 (PDF)
• Checklist to Evaluate the Quality of Questions (Evaluation Brief 15) (PDF)
• Increasing Questionnaire Response Rates (Evaluation Brief 21) (PDF)

Visualizing Data and Communicating Results:

• Creating Dynamic Presentations (Guide)
• Data Visualization Tips

Data Equity: 

• Data Equity Walk
• Data Issues in Jurisdictions with Small Populations (Tip Sheet) (DOC)
• Do No Harm Guide: Applying Equity Awareness in Data Visualization (PDF)
• Equitable Data Collection Toolkit: A Toolkit for Designing and Distributing Surveys
• Principles for Advancing Equitable Data Practice (PDF)

• Public Health Law Introduction 
• 10 - Engaging People with Lived/Living Experience
• 101 on One-to-Ones Quick Guide (PDF) and Participant Guide (PDF)
• Circles of Involvement Exercise (PDF)
• Community Engagement Assessment Tool
• Confronting Power Dynamics and Engaging the Community's Voice in Collective Impact
• Establishing Strong, Sustainable, Cross-Sector Collaborations
• Health in all policies: The what, why, and how...
• Health in all policies: A guide for state and local governments
• Meaningfully Engaging Youth
• Monitoring Collaboration Tool
• Principles of Community Engagement, Second Edition
• Public Participation Spectrum (PDF)
• Work Together Guide