Writing Action Plans

Developing a Community Health Improvement Plan

Directions

Now that you have identified the strategic issues you will be working on for the next few years in your community, it is time to document these issues, goals and activities in a “Community Health Improvement Plan” document. A community health improvement plan is a compilation of individual action plans.

For this exercise, choose one of the three strategic issues identified by your group. Using the information you recorded on the “Strategy Development Matrix” Worksheet in the previous section, you will now record the information on the “Template for the (Your County Name Here)County Health Improvement Plan”. The next step is to brainstorm with your partners to develop objectives for the identified strategic issue.  You will be developing no more than three outcome (long term) objectives for each strategic issue. You will then go on to develop impact and process(short term) objectives.  

For those counties/communities using the Sterling Model, a line is includedon the action plan template to document which Sterling Criteria the strategic issue addresses.

The example “Mango County Health Improvement Plan” can serve as a reference during this exercise.

Responsible or lead persons or agencies, target dates as well as any comments should also be recorded on the community health improvement plan template.

You may refer to the Mango County Community Health Improvement Plan example for the strategic issue: How can we protect our children from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke?

A helpful handout to guide in the writing of objectives is “Terms Used in Objective Setting”.

The “Team/Committee Specific Performance Improvement Projects” and the “Progress Report” worksheets can serve as tools to document action plan/community health improvement plan progress.