How can CHBs Use Their How can CHBs Use Their Community Health Plans?Community Health Plans?Making a Plan that Works for You and Your CommunityMaking a Plan that Works for You and Your Community

Jimi Kaye, Manager, Community Health Planning, Jimi Kaye, Manager, Community Health Planning, CEHHACEHHA

OverviewOverview

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

Why Use the Plan?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

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Health Authorities ActHealth Authorities Act

Writing Community Health Writing Community Health PlansPlans

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

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You are Mirrors of Your You are Mirrors of Your CommunitiesCommunities

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What Can the Plan Look What Can the Plan Look Like?Like?

Healthy Eating:_________________________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:

Top 3 to 5 Top 3 to 5 prioritiespriorities

SMART goalsSMART goals

SSpecificpecific

MMeasurableeasurable

AAchievablechievable

RRealisticealistic

TTimelyimely

Get Your Plans on Your AgendasGet 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 itemKeeping 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!

Staff Work with CHBs on Action Staff Work with CHBs on Action PlansPlans

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

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Where the Actions can be Where the Actions can be TakenTaken

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 strategiesMunicipal planning, etc.

…and advocate for the CHB recommendations there

SummarySummary

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

Questions?Questions?

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