Dear Community Partners and Key Stakeholders,
The CHIP Advisory has been working on how we work more effectively together and how we are going to support the Community Health Assessment in the coming months. The next Advisory meeting is coming up this Thursday, September 6th. As always, you'll find meeting materials on the right-hand menu bar on the blog.
Exciting news! Released on August 17 - The Community Health Assessment data workbook with a wealth of secondary data, the telephone survey data as well as the results of the key informant survey that many of you contributed to. Where possible, these data sets provide comparison to the region and the state. WNC Healthy Impact has provided great guidance and tools on how to review this abundance of data so that our local data team can identify a manageable number of health conditions that, in turn, will be initially prioritized by the CHIP Advisory. The Advisory Council will in turn make recommendations to the Buncombe County Health and Human Services Board who will contribute to the final decision on what health priorities will be moving forward. We continue to host listening sessions/focus groups and obtain input on our one key question with individuals across the county. Thank you so much to those organizations and individuals that have assisted with this process!
It is with appreciation and sadness that we are saying farewell to our Health Improvement Specialist extraordinaire, Deanna LaMotte who will be leaving us in a little over a week. Deanna won't be going very far so expect to still cross paths as she leads the Mission Health ACT Now! grant to address regional diabetes.
Don't forget to visit our additional blog pages to learn more on how you can Engage on important issues related to our CHIP priorities and Social Determinants of Health, Support our many partners, Learn, and access Resources.
Don't forget each of our priority work groups has a separate blog page which you can find at the following links:
