Engaging Families and Communities

Healthy People 2010 Tools

• Healthy People in Healthy Communities: A Community Planning Guide using Health People 2010. This document describes (1) how to know if your community is healthy; (2) Strategies for creating a healthy community, including how to engage key stakeholders, conduct a needs assessment, and an implementation and evaluation plan; (3) references and resources, and (4) specific information on Healthy People 2010 Leading Indicators, Healthy People 2010 Objectives for Communities, and additional information on worksites schools, and environmental health.

• Presenting Healthy People 2010 in Your Community: A package to to help you present information about Healthy People 2010 in your community.
• Funding Opportunities through Steps to a Healthier US: The US Department of Health and Human Services has funding opportunities through this program. Awards will be provided to large city/urban communities, state-coordinated small city/rural communities, and tribal consortiums.

Maternal and Child Health Bureau,
Health Resources and Services Administration, US DHHS

• Families at the Center: National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs. A project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurment Initiative (CAHMI), Oregon Health Sciences University, Department of Pediatrics.
• Title V Tool Box for Family Participation
• Tool for Measuring Family Participation for Children with Special Needs Programs

State-Based Opportunities

• Parent Leadership Training Institute, Connecticut Commission on Children. 20- week intensive training in tools of civic engagement, child development and advocacy. Participants say this program is transformational.

What Works: Programs and Interventions that May Affect Outcomes for Children and Youth: Child Trends DataBank. Provides data, trends, gender/race differences and links to additional data sources and information on leading indicators for children and youth.

Links to Community Organizations

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