is a new Web site guide for planning, leading, and using community health assessments to better understand and ultimately improve the health of communities. It provides insight to the assessment process drawn from experienced professionals and a variety of proven tools from the health and public health sectors. This is a member-only resource and you will need to be logged in.  Once on the website, select "member log-in" in the upper right and enter your ACHI Web site username and password.

 

Also available on the CDC OSH Web site is the Hispanic/Latino Adult Tobacco Survey Guide. The guide highlights the unique attributes of the Hispanic/Latino Adult Tobacco Survey and provides tips for meeting the unique challenges of conducting a population-based sample survey among the Hispanic population. The survey was designed to measure the tobacco-related behaviors, knowledge, attitudes and opinions of Latinos.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) is making available a community outreach tool kit for parenting tobacco-free Hispanic youth. The new resource is Sabemos: Por respeto – Aquí no se fuma: Community Outreach Tool Kit. The campaign is designed to help community leaders heighten awareness among Hispanic parents who have recently arrived in the United States (less than two years) about secondhand smoke and how it can affect them and their children. In addition, the campaign educates and empowers parents on practical steps they can take to achieve a smoke-free environment for their children. The tool kit and separate parenting materials for the consumer can be ordered or downloaded at no cost.

A Toolkit for Collecting Race, Ethnicity and Primary Language Information from Patients:  The Toolkit is a Web-based tool that provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients. 

The following are handouts from the "Building Communities and Cross-Cultural Conflict Transformation" workshop.

The following are presentations and handouts from the "Fundamentals of Evaluation" workshop.

 

The Kresge Foundation is a $3.9 billion private foundation that supports communities in the United States and around the world by strengthening the nonprofit organizations that serve them.

The foundation was established by Sebastian Spering Kresge in 1924 “for the promotion of human progress.” With an initial gift of $1.6 million, he launched what would become one of the nation’s largest philanthropic organizations. Over the years, the Kresge Foundation has helped build the nation’s nonprofit infrastructure – libraries, community centers, schools, hospitals, art museums, food banks and countless other facilities.

Basic Guide to Program Evaluation  A Basic Guide to Program Evaluation” is available from the Free Management Library, which is a free, online library that includes information on fundraising, volunteers, public policy, and more. This publication provides guidance toward planning and implementing an evaluation process and covers many kinds of evaluations, such as goals-based, process-based, and outcomes-based.

CDC's Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs—2007 is an evidence-based guide to help states plan and establish effective tobacco control programs to prevent and reduce tobacco use.This document updates Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs, August 1999. This updated edition describes an integrated programmatic structure for implementing interventions proven to be effective and provides the recommended level of state investment to reach these goals and reduce tobacco use in each state.

Toolkit for Going Smoke Free

The project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides tips, tools and resources to help individuals and organizations successfully implement smoke-free laws. Tools include timelines, signs, business outreach materials, media templates and more. Many of the tools and concepts can be applied no just to major smoke-free laws, but also to the implementation of smoke-free policies in your individual organization or community. You can access the toolkit at http://goingsmokefree.org/ or via the link above.