MAPP is a community-driven strategic planning process for improving community health.

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1 September 17, 2010 MAPP is a community-driven strategic planning process for improving community health. Facilitated by public health leaders, this framework helps communities apply strategic thinking to prioritize public health issues and identify resources to address them. MAPP is not an agency-focused assessment process; rather, it is an interactive process that can improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and ultimately the performance of local public health systems. Allows communities to achieve optimal health by identifying and using their resources wisely, taking into account their unique circumstances and needs, and forming effective partnerships for strategic action.

2 Systems thinking - to promote an appreciation for the dynamic interrelationship of all components of the local public health system required to develop a vision of a healthy community. Dialogue - to ensure respect for diverse voices and perspectives during the collaborative process. Shared vision - to form the foundation for building a healthy future. Data - to inform each step of the process. Partnerships and collaboration - to optimize performance through shared resources and responsibility. Strategic thinking to foster a proactive response to the issues and opportunities facing the system. Celebration of successes to ensure that contributions are recognized and to sustain excitement for the process.

3 Create a healthy community and a better quality of life. Increase the visibility of public health within the community. Anticipate and manage change. Create a stronger public health infrastructure. Engage the community and create community ownership for public health issues. Organize for Success Visioning The Assessments Local Public Health System Assessment Community Health Status Assessment Community Themes and Strengths Assessment Forces of Change Assessment Strategic Issues Formulate Goals and Strategies Action Cycle

4 The first phase of MAPP involves two critical and interrelated activities: organizing the planning process and developing the planning partnership. The purpose of this phase is to structure a planning process that builds commitment, engages participants as active partners, uses participants' time well, and results in a plan that can be realistically implemented.

5 Visioning, the second phase of MAPP, guides the community through a collaborative, creative process that leads to a shared community vision and common values. Vision and values statements provide focus, purpose, and direction to the MAPP process so that participants collectively achieve a shared vision for the future. A shared community vision provides an overarching goal for the community a statement of what the ideal future looks like. Values are the fundamental principles and beliefs that guide a community-driven planning process. Each assessment will yield important information for improving community health, but the value of the four MAPP Assessments is multiplied by considering the findings as a whole. Disregarding any of the assessments will leave participants with an incomplete understanding of the factors that affect the local public health system and, ultimately, the health of the community.

6 The Local Public Health System Assessment (LPHSA) focuses on all of the organizations and entities that contribute to the public's health and answers the questions, "What are the components, activities, competencies, and capacities of our local public health system?" and "How are the Essential Services being provided to our community? This assessment involves the use of a nationally recognized tool called the National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP) Local Instrument. The Community Health Status Assessment identifies priority community health and quality of life issues. Questions answered include: "How healthy are our residents?" and "What does the health status of our community look like? The results of the CHSA provide the MAPP Committee with an understanding of the community's health status and ensure that the community's priorities include specific health status issues (e.g., high lung cancer rates or low immunization rates).

7 The Community Themes and Strengths Assessment provides a deep understanding of the issues that residents feel are important by answering the questions: "What is important to our community?" "How is quality of life perceived in our community?" and "What assets do we have that can be used to improve community health? This assessment results in a strong understanding of community issues and concerns, perceptions about quality of life, and a map of community assets. The Forces of Change Assessment Focuses on identifying forces such as legislation, technology, and other impending changes that affect the context in which the community and its public health system operate. It is designed to help MAPP participants answer the following questions: "What is occurring or might occur that affects the health of our community or the local public health system?" and "What specific threats or opportunities are generated by these occurrences?"

8 During this phase of the MAPP process, participants develop an ordered list of the most important issues facing the community. Strategic issues are identified by exploring the convergence of the results of the four MAPP Assessments and determining how those issues affect the achievement of the shared vision. During the this phase of the MAPP process, participants take the strategic issues identified in the previous phase and formulate goal statements related to those issues. They, then, identify broad strategies for addressing issues and achieving goals related to the community's vision. The result is the development and adoption of an interrelated set of strategy statements.

9 The Action Cycle links three activities Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. Each of these activities builds upon the others in a continuous and interactive manner. While the Action Cycle is the final phase of MAPP, it is by no means the "end" of the process. During this phase, the efforts of the previous phases begin to produce results, as the local public health system develops and implements an action plan for addressing priority goals and objectives. Compiled list of community leaders, government/law officials, school officials, health care/local businesses/civic organization representatives - Summer 2009 NPHPSP Local Public Health Assessment Assessment October 22, 2009 Results (booklet & online) December 4, sfg%3d&tabid=3665 Health Department Employee attended the NPHPSP/MAPP Training - April 13-16, 2010 Community Health Status Assessment Health Department Intern gathered data Summer 2010 CHSA community forum/presentation September 17, 2010

10 Vision Assessments Community Themes & Strengths Assessment Forces of Change Assessment Strategic Issues Formulate Goals and Strategies Action Cycle REMEMBER! MAPP is a continual process. In order to strengthen and better the health of our community, we all need to work together.

11 Phase 1 Org. for Success Phase 2 Visioning Phase 3 - LPHSA/NPHPS Phase 3 CHSA Phase 3 - CTSA Phase 3 - FoC Phase 4 Identifying Strategic Issues Phase 5 Formulate Goals & Strategies Phase 6 Action Cycle Plan - Implement Evaluate April Thomas, Health Educator Anderson County Health Department 208 South Main Street Lawrenceburg, KY Phone: x1110 Fax: april.thomas@ky.gov