Dear Community Partners and Key Stakeholders,
Throughout October we have continued to work on our process to identify where our CHIP focus will be over the next 3+ years. In early October, the CHIP Advisory spent time reviewing the stand-out data from publicly available resources such as the NC Center for Health Statistics, the WNC Regional Telephone Survey and the Key Informant Interview that some of you participated in. CHIP Advisory engaged in a process to consider the health conditions that have risen to the top so far in regard to relevance, impact and the feasibility of addressing these conditions. Later in October, the CHIP Advisory had the opportunity to hear what community members feel are important and pressing issues as well as information from public sources around social determinants of health. On November 1st (drum roll please) we hope to narrow the list of stand-out to just 2 that will be presented to the Buncombe County Health and Human Services Board for consideration in mid November. One of these health conditions will be a focus for the next 3 years and one for potentially 10 years.
Throughout this process there has been a profound interest and concern in how we move forward in a way that ensures that social determinants are woven through our CHIP work. We don't know exactly what type of structure or process this will require but will be working to address this challenge over the next couple of months.
With the months-long in the weeds data process, it's helpful to remember that we are in Phase 1 of the CHA/CHIP process. We look forward to moving past the data and into the Strategic Planning process.
Throughout this process there has been a profound interest and concern in how we move forward in a way that ensures that social determinants are woven through our CHIP work. We don't know exactly what type of structure or process this will require but will be working to address this challenge over the next couple of months.
With the months-long in the weeds data process, it's helpful to remember that we are in Phase 1 of the CHA/CHIP process. We look forward to moving past the data and into the Strategic Planning process.
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:
