How can CHBs Use Their Community Health Plans?

1. How can CHBs Use Their Community Health Plans? Making a Plan that Works for You and Your Community Jimi Kaye, Manager, Community Health Planning, CEHHA

2. Overview • Why use the Plan? • What should be in the Plan? • How to make recommendations you can use • How to turn them into actions for your CHB

3. Why Use the Plan? • In order for your plan to work for you, it should *include* you • If it doesn’t engage the CHB members, then it’s not really a plan for the CHB Image Source: http://www.brandeis.edu/studentaffairs/communityservice/awardandtrackinghours/reflectionessay.html

4. Health Authorities Act

7. Writing Community Health Plans • CHBs write what they’ve heard about concerns in the community and how to address them • Recommendations for the District Health Authority, partners or government about formal health system programs and services -AND- • A list of actions that CHB itself will take to promote health and educate the public about the issues of concern Image Source: http://fairtradecommunity.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85%3Afair-trade-community&catid=42%3Aauthor-profiles&Itemid=2

8. You are Mirrors of Your Communities Image Source: http://villagephotographer.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/community-reflection/community-reflection/

9. What Can the Plan Look Like? Healthy Eating:_________________________ • You Told Us: • Your Suggestions for Improvement: • The Health Research Says: • We Advise CEHHA to: • As a Community Health Board, we will: • CEHHA will respond by:

10. Top 3 to 5 priorities

11. SMART goals • Specific • Measurable • Achievable • Realistic • Timely

12. Get Your Plans on Your Agendas • This is the key piece of keeping the Plan at the forefront of your work • You might even make each of your top priority areas its own standing agenda item • Keeping an action log and reviewing outstanding items at each meeting can also be helpful • Bring in guests from your community partners to give updates on the work you’re doing with them • Celebrate and brag about these relationships!

13. Staff Work with CHBs on Action Plans • CHB Staff work with the CHBs to develop action plans to implement the CHB recommendations for in their communities • This is your plan to guide the CHBs’ activities over the year • Suggest that a copy of the Plan and Action Plans be at the ready for each CHB meeting Image Source: http://collegepreneurship.com/?page_id=20

14. Where the Actions can be Taken • District recommendations taken to Board, Managers and staff for inclusion in Business and operational plans - where feasible • CHB recommendations - take Plans to community sessions… • e.g. Active transportation, • Recreation, • provincial strategies • Municipal planning, etc. • …and advocate for the CHB recommendations there

15. Summary • Get your plans / recommendations (DHA and CHB) on your monthly agendas • Write specific actions (what, how, who, when…) - bite sized pieces! • Work with community partners / champions – sustainable action comes from within the community • Put yourself out there - go where the people are – and advocate for your recommendations

16. Questions? Image Source: http://www.humanewatch.org/category/the_best_of_humanewatch/