Community Health Planning
Get Involved!
Community involvement and engagement is critical throughout the entire CHA/CHIP process. Partners present the progress of the CHIP on an ongoing basis and Austin/Travis County community-based organizations can request presentations. If you are interested in getting involved or want to request, a presentation please contact us by sending an email to ATC.CommunityHealthPlan@austintexas.gov.
Partners can access contact lists, upcoming events, partner announcements, and workgroup documents through our Partner SharePoint Site. To request access, please email ATC.CommunityHealthPlan@austintexas.gov.
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Working together to improve health in our community
View the full 2022 Community Health Assessment here. The report will guide our 2023 Improvement Plan, which we'll start developing in August and is set to be completed by February 2023. Visit our Speak Up Austin page for more information on how to provide feedback and get involved in the process!
Community members, partners, and stakeholders are working together to address health issues where we live, learn, work, and play. Events were convened where Community members discussed what improvements they would like to see. This process and its findings are summarized in the Community Health Assessment (CHA). Using the community’s feedback, a comprehensive Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) was drafted. Partners and stakeholders throughout Austin/ Travis County are working on the CHIP’s strategies and objectives with the shared goal of making measurable progress in each area. Some of the Partners critical to the CHIP’s success include:
| Ascension Seton | Austin Public Health |
| Austin Transportation Department | Baylor Scott & White Health |
| Capital Metro | Central Health |
| Integral Care | St. David’s Foundation |
| Travis County Health and Human Services | The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health in Austin |
Community Health Plan
The Community Health Plan is comprised of two major initiatives: our assessment phase and our implementation phase which has now moved from a five-year cycle to a three-year cycle. This process includes the completion of a CHA and a CHIP and includes our annual action plans.
A CHA engages community members and local public health system partners to collect and analyze health-related data from many sources.
- Informs community decision-making
- Prioritizes health problems
- Assists in the development and implementation of community health improvement plans
A CHIP is an action-oriented plan that outlines the community health issues based on CHA findings. The community and partners work together to identify how issues will be addressed and how to measure progress. Ultimately, the long-term goal is to improve the community’s health. (Source: National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO).