The Community Guide – Public Health Accreditation Board Crosswalk

1. Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office The Community Guide – Public Health Accreditation Board Crosswalk Shawna L. Mercer Starr M. Banks Community Guide Branch, OSELS Liza C. Corso Division of Public Health Performance Improvement, OSTLTS PoojaVerma NACCHO

2. What is the Community Guide – PHAB Crosswalk? A new tool that provides a comprehensive crosswalk between • Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) evidence-based interventions • Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) standards and measures

3. What is the Purpose of the Crosswalk? To assist health departments in identifying evidence-based programs, services, and policies from The Community Guide whose use could help demonstrate conformity with PHAB standards and measures

4. What is the Value of the Crosswalk? It can assist health departments in achieving two important outcomes: • Securing documentation to strengthen their applications for accreditation • Increasing their use of evidence-based practices

5. Development • Collaborative undertaking • NACCHO • PoojaVerma & Jessica Solomon Fisher • CDC • Community Guide Branch, OSELS • Shawna Mercer & Starr Banks • Division of Public Health Performance Improvement, OSTLTS • Liza Corso & Valeria Carlson • Status • Draft instrument is about to enter CDC clearance • It will be available on The Community Guide website

6. How can the Crosswalk help in preparing for Accreditation? • It identifies the two PHAB measures that require use of evidence-based approaches or promising practices and cite The Community Guide as a resource • PHAB 5.2.2 S,L (Domain 5, Standard 2, Measure 2 for state and local health departments) • PHAB 10.1.1 A (all health departments) • It shows the large number of other connections between Community Guide evidence-based interventions and measures within almost all of the PHAB domains

7. The Crosswalk consists of… • Introduction and Instructions • Table 1 – especially for those focused on PHAB • Starts with PHAB domains, standards, and measures and cross-references them with related interventions from The Community Guide • Table 2 – especially for programmatic staff • Starts with public health topic areas, and identifies the PHAB measures that relate to each of the Community Guide interventions within that topic

8. Examples of the Table • Handouts • Please note that the handouts are draft

9. Things to keep in mind • Consider the focus (of the intervention, and of the PHAB measure) • Don’t just pick any 1 or 2 Community Guide interventions. • Identify what BEST reflects the PHAB measure as well as quality activities in your agency. • Be aware of PHAB scope vs. The Community Guide scope

10. To provide feedback and get more information • We want to hear your thoughts! • How can we make the Crosswalk as useful as possible? • This will be a living tool… stay tuned for ongoing updates • Watch out for The Community Guide – PHAB Crosswalk at COPPHI Open Forum and APHA • For more information or to hear when the Crosswalk becomes available • Use the “Contact Us” email or mail address at www.thecommunityguide.org

11. Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory, Science Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office THANK YOU! Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office Shawna Mercer, MSc, PhD smercer@cdc.gov Starr Banks, MPH smbanks@cdc.gov Liza Corso lcorso@cdc.gov PoojaVerma pverma@naccho.org 11