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Community Tool Box
University of Kansas
The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change. Their mission is to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources. The Assessing Community Needs and Resources Toolkit provides guidance on conducting Community Needs Assessments.
Community Health Assessment and Health Improvement Planning
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This site helps state, tribal, local, and territorial health deparmtents as they develop community health assessments and health improvement plans. Many of these resources can be helpful for other forms of needs assessments as well.
Resource Center for Community Health Assessments and Community Health Improvement Plans
National Association of County and City Health Officials
The CHA/CHIP Resource Center provides practical, customizable tools and resources to all local health departments in a central and publicly accessible location. The resource center is intended to provide support to entitites completing community health assessments and improvement planning.
Performing a Community-Based Assessment
UCLA Center for Health Policy and Research
In this workshop, participants learn how to organize, plan, and implement a health assessment in their communities. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants establish long-term goals to understand and promote the health of their community.
Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE) Tool
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Community Health Assessment aNd Group Evaluation (CHANGE) is a data-collection tool and planning resource for community members who want to make their community a healthier one. The CDC's Healthy Communities Program designed the CHANGE tool for all communities interested in creating social and built environments that support healthy living.
School Climate Survey Compendium
National Center of Safe Supportive Learning Environments
The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments maintains a compendium of valid and reliable surveys, assessments, and scales of school climate that can assist educators in their efforts to identify and assess their conditions for learning.