2. Purpose
Identify community strengths and areas for
improvement.
Identify and understand the status of
community health needs.
Define improvement areas to guide the
community towards population-based
strategies that create a healthier environment
(e.g., increased physical activity, improved
nutrition, reduced tobacco use and exposure,
and chronic disease management).
Assist with prioritizing community needs and
consider appropriate allocation of available
resources.
3. Process
Contact agencies from each sector
Schedule interviews
Complete surveys
Evaluate results
Compile learned information
4. Five Sectors
1. Community at Large
Boise Parks and Recreation
Planning and Development Services
2. Health Care
St. Alphonsus Federal Way Clinic
Genesis World Mission
Garden City Community Clinic
3. Community Organizations
United Way
Morris Hill Neighborhood Association
Southminster Presbyterian Church
Sojourn Church
Whitney United Methodist Church
5. Five Sectors Cont.
4. Worksites
Intermountain Gas
International Minute Press
Vista Travel
Lee Pesky Learning Center
5. Schools
Borah High School
South Junior High School
Jefferson Elementary School
Hawthorne Elementary School
Whitney Elementary School
Grace Jordan Elementary School
6. Successes
Contacting all agencies in each sector
Scheduling interviews
Successfully completing surveys
15. Community at Large
Short Term Long Term
Provide classes
on preventative
strategies
Classes on healthy
cooking and the
benefits vs. dining
out.
Develop a policy
to ban trans fat
at restaurants
16. Community at Large
Short Term Long Term
Promote the
purchase of
fruits and
veggies at local
restaurants and
food venues
Develop a policy
to connect
locally grown
foods to local
restaurant and
food venues
17. Health Care
Short Term Long Term
Provide free or
low cost
nutritional
programs and
weight
management
programs
Bring in vending
machines with
healthier food
and beverage
options
18. Health Care
Short Term Long Term
Assess patients
physical activity
as a part of a
written checklist
or screening
used on all
routine office
visits
Provide regular
counseling
about the health
value of physical
activity during all
routine office
visits
19. Community Organizations
Short Term Long Term
Have members
of the
organization fill
out a survey,
asking what
would motivate
them to be more
active
Using the
results,
implement the
activities into an
incentive
program
20. Community Organization
Short Term Long Term
Contact different
hospitals or
organizations
who could come
to the facility to
do specific
screening,
counseling, and
educational
classes
Having these
hospitals
continue to
provide follow-
up screening,
preventative
measures
21. Work Sites
Short Term Long Term
Perform routine
screenings on
their employees,
i.e. skin
screenings
blood pressure,
and
mammograms
Create a self
management
program that
educates the
employees about
the risks and
preventative
measures of
chronic illnesses
22. Work Sites
Short Term Long Term
Groups in the
workplace that are
centered around
encouraging each other
to be more physically
active
Group discussions on
how to be more
physically active
establishing the
physical needs of the
employees
creating a physical
activity "package" that
the employees could
take advantage.
i.e. paid gym
membership, or
employee organized
physical activities/club
sports
23. Schools
Short Term Long Term
Create a walk/bike
to school week
where the schools
encourage students
to walk to school by
rewarding prizes
etc. and get the
teachers and
parents involved
Create safer
walking routes to
school, and make
sure all the
sidewalks are
connected so that
students can walk
to school
Continue the “walk
to school week” as
an annual event
