Franklin County Public Health
Community Health
Improvement Plan
2014 - 2018
Franklin County Public Health
280 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 525-3160
www.myfcph.org
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Table of Contents
What is a Community Health Improvement Plan?
Page 3
Overview of Franklin County, OH
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Franklin County Public Health (FCPH) Overview
Page 6
FCPH Community Health Improvement Plan Overview
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The Community Health Improvement Plan Process
Page 8
FCPH’s Health Improvement Plan Strategy
Page 10
APPENDIX A: Franklin County, Ohio and National Demographics
for Selected Indicators
Page 15
APPENDIX B: Community Research Partners Foreign Born DataByte
Page 16
APPENDIX C: Whitehall CHAT Implementation Plan
Page 17
APPENDIX D: Prairie Township CHAT Implementation Plan
Page 19
APPENDIX E: Hamilton Township & Obetz CHAT Implementation Plan
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APPENDIX F: 2014 – 2018 Expansion for FCPH’s CHATs
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What is a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)?
A community health improvement plan (CHIP) describes how the health department and its
partner communities will work together to improve the health of its residents. In order to
understand what the health issues are, the CHIP is usually preceded by a Community Health
Assessment (CHA). The CHA provides the most current and reliable information about the
health status of a community and where gaps may exist in achieving optimal health.
However, data alone is not enough. Communities are made up of people who have valuable
insights about health issues and identified needs. They also are very knowledgeable about
community assets, resources, and strengths. A CHIP takes the data from the CHA along with
input from community members to determine what the most important issues the health
department, community partners and residents will work on together.
Figure 1: The Community Health Improvement Plan Process
Data
(CHA)
Community
Health
Improvement
Plan
Community
Input
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Franklin County Overview
Franklin County, Ohio is located in the central part of the state with a population of
approximately 1.2 million people. There are 16 cities, 9 villages, and 17 townships, including
the county seat, Columbus, Ohio. The city of Columbus is the largest in the state of Ohio and
has a population of approximately 750,000 people. Franklin County Public Health serves a
population of approximately 422,640 people.
Figure 2: FCPH Jurisdictions
Jurisdictions Served by Franklin County Public Health
Cities
Townships
Villages
Bexley
Blendon
Brice
Canal Winchester
Brown
Harrisburg
Dublin
Franklin
Lockbourne
Gahanna
*Hamilton
**Marble Cliff
**Grandview Heights
Jackson
Minerva Park
Grove City
Jefferson
*Obetz
Groveport
Madison
Riverlea
**Hilliard
Mifflin
Urbancrest
New Albany
Norwich
Valleyview
Pickerington
Perry
Reynoldsburg
Plain
Upper Arlington
Pleasant
Westerville
*Prairie
*Whitehall
Sharon
Truro
*Jurisdiction has a CHAT
**Jurisdiction is currently forming a CHAT
Franklin County has experienced growth over the past few decades. The county is slightly
younger than Ohio and the nation, with a greater percentage of residents in the 18-64 year
age range, and children under 5 years. Likewise, the area is experiencing the same trend as
across the country with aging baby boomers. Franklin County has a slightly higher per capita
income than Ohio while at the same time, has higher poverty rates for families and individuals.
This reflects the diversity in the county with an urban inner city surrounded by suburban cities
and townships. For more demographic information on Franklin County, please refer to
Appendix A.
Franklin County is also home to a growing number of foreign-born, hailing from all corners of
the globe. These new residents tend to live primarily in the more suburban parts of Columbus
and Franklin County (See Appendix B. Community Research Partners, Columbus, Ohio).
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Franklin County has a diverse economy based on education, government, insurance,
banking, fashion, defense, aviation, food, clothes, logistics, steel, energy, medical research,
health care, hospitality, retail, and technology. The county is home to the world's largest
private research and development foundation, the Battelle Memorial Institute and The Ohio
State University, the nation's largest academic campus. The County is headquarters to many
notable businesses, including Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, American Electric
Power, Limited Brands, Cardinal Health and Wendy’s corporation. There are four major
hospital systems and seventeen natural area (metro) parks within the county with numerous
urban greenways. Franklin County has an abundance of resources with energetic and
committed communities to improve health and wellness.
Figure 3: Map of all Franklin County Public Health Jurisdictions.
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Franklin County Public Health Overview
Vision Statement
Franklin County Public Health leads our communities in achieving optimal health for all.
Mission
Franklin County Public Health improves the health of our communities by preventing disease,
promoting healthy living and protecting against public health threats through education,
policies, programs, and partnerships.
FCPH Structure
Figure 4: FCPH Organizational Chart
At Franklin County Public Health, the section that has been tasked with the planning,
development and maintenance of the Community Health Improvement Plan is the Health
Promotion and Community Engagement Section. This section focuses on examining and
strengthening the health characteristics of the community through active partnerships. This
section places a high value on active partnerships, because improving the health of the
citizens of Franklin County is truly a shared responsibility.
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Franklin County Public Health Community Health Improvement Plan Overview
A meaningful Community Health Improvement Plan must not only have stakeholder input, but
it should also ensure that community members and organizations are active in doing the work
of the plan. It is for this reason that Franklin County Public Health has been working to develop
local groups in each of its jurisdictions. These groups are called Community Health Action
Teams (CHATs). A CHAT is a group of local stakeholders in a specific jurisdiction (city, township
or village) that work to improve the health of their community. At FCPH, we believe that
nobody knows a community better than the people who live and work there. By partnering
with key stakeholders across different sectors (i.e. schools, businesses, faith based groups), and
working through a specific process, FCPH can more effectively address priority health issues
and engage the larger community.
Franklin County Public Health began developing and piloting this initiative in early 2014. The
first CHAT started in the city of Whitehall. Since then CHAT groups have also been started in
Prairie Township, Hamilton Township and Obetz areas. FCPH is currently working to expand
CHAT groups in the communities of Hilliard, Grandview Heights, and Marble Cliff. It is our intent
that each jurisdiction have a diverse, engaged and functioning CHAT in their community.
During 2014 – 2018, Franklin County Public Health will focus its health improvement planning
efforts into two areas of development:
1. Facilitate and support the local priority health goals of the current CHATs
2. Build the infrastructure/capacity at the local and county level
a. Expand the CHAT initiative to other jurisdictions
b. Develop the Franklin County Healthy Communities Coalition
In order to create and implement an effective health improvement plan, the correct systems
must be established and nurtured at the local jurisdictional levels and county level. In order to
effectively establish these systems, FCPH and its partners must commit to a process for
collaboration and planning.
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The CHIP Process
Franklin County Public Health’s Community Health Improvement Plan involves a proven
process model known as MAP-IT (Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, and Track). The MAP-IT
model is a guide for program planning developed by Healthy People 2020. This process is
useful in planning and evaluating public health interventions and initiatives. By using the MAPIT process, a group can more effectively:

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
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Engage and mobilize partners.
Work with stakeholders to assess the strengths and needs of the community.
Create and implement the Community Health Improvement Plan
Track the community’s progress
In addition to the MAP-IT process, FCPH has also adapted a framework known as Collective
Impact. Collective Impact is a newer approach to addressing societal issues. It works to bring
together multiple stakeholders and organizations to coordinate efforts and work together
around a clearly defined goal. By bringing different sectors together, communities can make
more meaningful and sustainable progress on social issues.
Collective impact offers a realistic paradigm to create lasting large-scale change for social
progress. Collective Impact is more than just a collaboration, network or partnership; but
rather a different approach that insists upon five conditions that produces true alignment and
could potentially lead to powerful results. The five conditions of collective impact are listed in
the figure below.
Figure 5: The Five Conditions of Collective Impact
The Five Conditions of Collective Impact
Common Agenda
Shared Measurement
Mutually Reinforcing Activities
Continuous Communication
Backbone Support
All participants have a shared vision for change including a common
understanding of the problem and a joint approach to solving it
through agreed upon actions.
Collecting data and measuring results consistently across all
participants ensures efforts remain aligned and participants hold each
other accountable.
Participant activities must be differentiated while still being
coordinated through a mutually reinforcing plan of action.
Consistent and open communication is needed across the many
players to build trust, assure mutual objectives, and create common
motivation.
Creating and managing collective impact requires a separate
organization(s) with staff and a specific set of skills to serve as the
backbone for the entire initiative and coordinate participating
organizations and agencies.
Source:
Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work, by Hanleybrown, Kanya, Kramer. Stanford Social Innovation Review 2012
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Both the MAP-IT process and the Collective Impact framework offer important guidance in the
building of dynamic community coalitions, creating clarity, and health planning. Because of
the valuable contributions of this process and framework, FCPH staff have taken the MAP-IT
Process and infused it with the Collective Impact approach. By infusing the MAP-IT Process
with the Collective Impact Framework, Franklin County Public Health staff are establishing a
much more comprehensive planning and community engagement approach.
Figure 6: MAP-IT Process with Collective Impact Framework
Mobilize
Assess
Backbone
Organization
Track
(& Report)
Mutually
Reinforcing
Activities
Set Common
Agenda
Continuous
Communications
Plan
Implement
Common
Progress
Measures
= MAP-IT
Process
= Collective Impact
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Franklin County Public Health’s Health Improvement Plan Strategy
In order to achieve successful health outcomes in Franklin County, it is necessary for the public
health department to develop a smart and meaningful strategy. Part of this strategy must
include developing strong and active partnerships with our communities in order to ensure
stakeholder input and shared responsibility.
The 2014 – 2018 FCPH Community Health Improvement plan will focus on engaging and
mobilizing community partners; and building the necessary systems and infrastructure in each
of our jurisdictions. Our health improvement plan encompasses the following strategies:
A. Further development and support of our established Community
Health Action Teams
*Franklin County Public Health currently has Community Health Action Teams in three of its jurisdictions:
1) Whitehall (Appendix C)
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Summary Statement:
The Community Health Action Team in Whitehall first began meeting in April 2014.
The Whitehall CHAT is made up of many different sectors of the community (i.e. City
Government, Schools, Fire Department, Faith based organizations, non-profit and for
profit entities). The group has identified access to primary care as being the primary
health issue for the community. The goal of the Whitehall CHAT is to “Increase the
number of people in Whitehall with a usual and ongoing source of primary
healthcare.” The team will start with a focus on women. For more information on
the objectives, activities, timeframes and target measurements, please see the
CHAT Implementation plan for Whitehall, Appendix C.
Current Step in the MAP-IT Process:
Mobilize

Assess
Plan
Implement
Track
Data and Indicators
Data/Indicator
Whitehall
Current Measurement
Franklin County
Ohio
2018 Target
Whitehall
*Whitehall EMS Request for
Services (2013)
7000
Unavailable
Unavailable
6,300 (10% decrease)
** Percent Uninsured
Population
22.34%
13.3%
11.59%
*** Lack of a Consistent
Source of Primary Care
21.15%
21.15%
18.65%
0%
Healthy People 2020 Target
16.1%
Healthy People 2020 Target
Data Sources:
*Whitehall Fire Department
** US Census Bureau, American Community Survey
***Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
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National and State Objectives Alignment
National Objectives Alignment
A. Healthy People 2020

Access to Health Services (AHS)
o AHS-3: Increase the proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider
B. National Prevention Strategy

Clinical and Community Preventive Services
o Recommendation #6: Enhance coordination and integration of clinical, behavioral,
and complementary health strategies
State Objectives Alignment
Ohio Department of Health: Ohio’s Plan to Prevent and Reduce Chronic Disease, 2014-2018
 Core Focus Area 3: Community-Clinical Linkages
o
Objective 3.3: By 2018, increase the number of community health worker (CHW) models
being used to address chronic disease prevention and management.
2) Prairie Township (Appendix D)
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Summary Statement
The Community Health Action Team in Prairie Township began meeting in November
2014. The group has identified increasing physical activity among community
members and increasing healthy eating behaviors as their priority health goal. The
team will start with a focus on households (families). For more information on the
objectives, activities, timeframes and target measurements, please see the CHAT
Implementation Plan for Prairie Township, Appendix D.
Current Step in the MAP-IT Process:
Mobilize

Plan
Assess
Implement
Track
Data and Indicators
Data/Indicator
Current Measurement
Prairie Township
Franklin County
Ohio
2018 Target
Prairie Township
28.70%
*Obesity (% Adults with BMI > 30.0)
29.20%
29.10%
30.08%
**Percent Adults Overweight
35.62%
35.62%
35.80%
***30.62%
*Percent of Adults with no leisure time
physical activity
23.10%
23.40%
25.48%
***18.10%
**Percent of adults with inadequate
Fruit & Vegetable Consumption
76.70%
76.70%
78.50%
***71.70%
Ohio 2020 Target
Data Sources:
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
***2018 Target measurements for Prairie Township correlate to targets set in “Ohio’s Plan to Prevent and Reduce Chronic Disease.
2014-2018.”
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Nation and State Objectives Alignment
National Objectives Alignment
A. Healthy People 2020


Physical Activity (PA)
o PA-1: Reduce the proportion of adults who engage in no leisure-time physical
activity
Nutrition and Weight Status (NWS)
o NWS-8: Increase the proportion of adults who are at a healthy weight
o NWS-9: Reduce the proportion of adults who are obese
o NWS-13: Reduce household food insecurity and in doing so reduce hunger
o NWS-14: Increase the contribution of fruits to the diets of the population aged 2 years
and older
o NWS-15: Increase the variety and contribution of vegetables to the diets of the
population aged 2 years and older
o NWS-16: Increase the contribution of whole grains to the diets of the population
aged 2 years and older
o NWS-17: Reduce consumption of calories from solid fats and added sugars in the
population aged 2 years and older
B. National Prevention Strategy


Active Living
o Recommendation #2: 2Promote and strengthen school and early learning policies
and programs that increase physical activity.
o Recommendation #3: Facilitate access to safe, accessible, and affordable places
for physical activity.
Healthy Eating
o Recommendation #1: Increase access to healthy and affordable foods in
communities.
o Recommendation #3: Improve nutritional quality of the food supply.
o Recommendation #4: Help people recognize and make healthy food and
beverage choices.
State Objectives Alignment
Ohio Department of Health: Ohio’s Plan to Prevent and Reduce Chronic Disease, 2014-2018

Core Focus Area 1: Environmental Approaches
o Objective 1.11: By 2018, increase the percent of Ohio farmers’ markets that accept
nutrition assistance benefits, including electronic benefit transfers (EBT), or vouchers for
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Women, Infants and Children
(WIC) Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (WIC FMNP).
 Core Focus Area 3: Community-Clinical Linkages
o
Objective 3.3: By 2018, increase the number of community health worker (CHW) models
being used to address chronic disease prevention and management.
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3) Hamilton Township/Obetz (Appendix E)
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Summary Statement
The first step in developing a Community Health Action Team is mobilizing key
stakeholders in the community. In the Hamilton Township and Obetz areas, there is
already a multi-sector, community serving coalition in existence. This group is the
Community Partners of Southern Franklin County. This group first came together in
the fall of 2002. The purpose of the Community Partners is to support education in
the community by focusing on building relationships among members, identifying
existing resources, and developing a plan to meet identified needs. As a result, the
Community Partners have provided mentors, tutors, volunteers, assistance to families
in need, literacy classes for adults, annual leadership seminars, space for meetings
and classes, and a network among members. The Community Partners became an
official nonprofit organization in August 2006.
In September of 2014, staff from Franklin County Public Health attended a
Community Partners monthly meeting to discuss the CHAT initiative and to
determine if the Community Partners of Southern Franklin County would have
interest in collaborating and adding a community health focus to the group’s
projects and initiatives. This proposal was accepted by the group and Franklin
County Public Health has since been a contributing member of the Community
Partners.
The group has identified Health Promotion as their priority health goal. The team will
focus on incorporating health promotion activities at current community partners
events. This group will also begin looking at various health data and indicators for
the community in order to narrow their focus and gain clarity around the priority
health goal. For more information on the objectives, activities, timeframes and
target measurements, please see the CHAT Implementation Plan for Hamilton
Township and Obetz, Appendix E.
Current Step in the MAP-IT Process:
Mobilize

Assess
Plan
Implement
Track
Data and Indicators
Since the Community Partners of Southern Franklin County are still in the Assess Phase, a
specific priority health goal has not been identified. Once the priority health goal is
selected, data and indicators will be identified in order to track and report progress.

Nation and State Objectives Alignment
Since the Community Partners of Southern Franklin County are still in the Assess Phase, a
specific priority health goal has not been identified. Once the priority health goal is
selected, national and state objectives will be identified in order to ensure alignment
these important health priorities.
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B. Expansion of our Community Health Action Teams (Appendix F)
During 2015, FCPH will work to establish two new community health action teams in
addition to the ones listed above. By December 2015, the Health Promotion and
Community Engagement Staff will:
1) Establish the Hilliard, Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff CHATs
2) Identify Communitites for expansion from 2016 – 2018.
C. Development of the Franklin County Healthy Communities Coalition
(Appendix F)
During 2015, FCPH will begin the design of the Franklin County Healthy Communities
Coalition. It is the vision of FCPH that this coalition is made up of representatives of
each Community Health Action Team, Jursidictions that have health and Wellness
Coalitions similar to the CHATs (i.e. Westerville), and larger non-profits and agencies (i.e.
YMCA of Central Ohio, Ohio Health, Ohio Health Action Council, etc.). The purpose of
this coalition will be for shared learning, collaboration and networking between
community representatives, organizations and agencies. The goal is to hold the first
Franklin County Healthy Communitites Coalition during the first quarter of 2016.
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APPENDIX A: Franklin County, Ohio and National Demographics for Selected Indicators
Age
Race
Ethnicity
Gender
Income
Poverty Status
Total Population
Under 5 Years
5-17 Years
18-64 Years
65 Years and Over
White
African American
American Indian/Alaska Native
Asian
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific
Islander
Other
Hispanic or Latino (of any race)
Male
Female
Per Capita Income
Median Household Income
Mean Household Income
Families Below Poverty Level
Individuals Below Poverty Level
Under 18 Years
18 to 64 Years
65 Years and Over
Franklin County
Ohio
United States
1,163,414
11,536,504 308,745,538
7.10%
6.20%
6.50%
16.80%
17.40%
17.50%
66.10%
62.30%
62.90%
14.10%
14.10%
13.00%
71.80%
84.50%
74.80%
23.10%
13.40%
13.60%
1.00%
0.80%
1.70%
4.60%
2.10%
5.60%
0.20%
0.10%
0.40%
2.70%
4.80%
48.70%
51.30%
$27,002
$49,041
$65,006
11.40%
15.80%
21.20%
14.70%
9.80%
1.40%
3.10%
48.80%
51.20%
$24,830
$47,144
$61,506
10.00%
13.60%
19.10%
12.60%
8.50%
7.00%
16.30%
49.20%
50.80%
$27,041
$51,425
$70,096
9.90%
13.50%
18.60%
12.20%
9.80%
Source: HealthMap2013
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APPENDIX B: Franklin County Foreign Born DataByte
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Appendix C: Whitehall CHAT Implementation Plan
Community Health Action Team Implementation Plan
Community Initiative: Whitehall CHAT
Collective Purpose: “The Whitehall CHAT will examine and improve the health of people in our
community.”
Strategic Partnerships - Whitehall CHAT Partners:

City of Whitehall
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Faith Lutheran Church

Franklin County Public Health

Mount Carmel

Holy Spirit School

Ohio Health

Ohio Hispanic Association

Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services

Ohio Nurses Association

Westphal Avenue Baptist Church

Whitehall City Schools

Whitehall Division of Fire

Whitehall Chamber of Commerce

Whitehall Library

Whitehall Senior Center

Whitehall United Methodist Church

Whitehall Family Health Center

YMCA of Central Ohio
Data and Indicators:
Data/Indicator
Whitehall
Current Measurement
Franklin County
Ohio
2018 Target
Whitehall
*Whitehall EMS Request for
Services (2013)
7000
Unavailable
Unavailable
6,300 (10% decrease)
** Percent Uninsured
Population
22.34%
13.3%
11.59%
*** Lack of a Consistent
Source of Primary Care
21.15%
21.15%
18.65%
0%
Healthy People 2020 Target
16.1%
Healthy People 2020 Target
Data Source:
*Whitehall Fire Department
** US Census Bureau, American Community Survey
***Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
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Whitehall CHAT Improvement Strategies:
Priority Health Goal:
Priority Population:
Timeframe:
Objective
Whitehall CHAT will implement the
following activities in the next 3-6
months
Increase the number of people in Whitehall with a usual
and ongoing source of primary healthcare.
Women
April 2015 – October 2015
Activities
Who is
Responsible


Host a coalition of community
health workers (CHW). Examine
use of CHWs in Whitehall and
identify opportunities for use of
CHWs in the community.
Opportunity for shared learning
between CHWs.
Raise awareness and provide
education on the value of
regular source of primary care.
Timeframe:
Objective
November 2015 – December 2018
Activities
Whitehall CHAT will implement the
following activities in the next 6-12
months







Link mobile health services with
existing community events.
Link health education fairs with
existing community events.
Provide incentives to participate
in regular healthcare.
Reduce transportation barriers
by providing bus passes.
Organize a community based
solution to reduce transportation
barriers.
Engage COTA in forum to
improve service and ways to
make busses more familyfriendly.
Engage Medicaid managed
care organizations to improve
use of transportation benefits.

CHW
workgroup

Education
and
Awareness
workgroup
Who is
Responsible

TBD
Revised: 4/20/2015
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Appendix D: Prairie Township CHAT Implementation Plan
Community Health Action Team Implementation Plan
Community Initiative: Prairie Township CHAT
Collective Purpose: “The Prairie Township CHAT will examine, educate, and provide
opportunities to improve the health of people in our community.”
Strategic Partnerships - Prairie Township CHAT Partners:

Doctors Hospital

Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services

Franklin County Public Health

Prairie Township Administration

Prairie Township Fire Department

South-Western City Schools

Southwest Public Library

St. Marks United Methodist Church

Franklin County Sheriff’s Office
Data and Indicators:
Data/Indicator
Current Measurement
Prairie Township
Franklin County
Ohio
2018 Target
Prairie Township
28.70%
*Obesity (% Adults with BMI > 30.0)
29.20%
29.10%
30.08%
**Percent Adults Overweight
35.62%
35.62%
35.80%
***30.62%
*Percent of Adults with no leisure time
physical activity
23.10%
23.40%
25.48%
***18.10%
**Percent of adults with inadequate
Fruit & Vegetable Consumption
76.70%
76.70%
78.50%
***71.70%
Ohio 2020 Target
Data Sources:
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
***2018 Target measurements for Prairie Township correlate to targets set in “Ohio’s Plan to Prevent and Reduce Chronic Disease.
2014-2018.”
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Prairie Township CHAT Improvement Strategies:
Priority Health Goal:
Priority Population:
Timeframe:
Objective
Prairie Township CHAT will
implement the following activities
in the next 3-6 months.
Increasing physical activity among community
members and increasing healthy eating behaviors
Families; including households and non-traditional
families.
April 2015 – October 2015
Activities
Who is
Responsible


Work with mid-Ohio food bank
to coordinate and host a
produce distribution sites in
Prairie Township.
Provide nutrition education and
healthy cooking demonstrations
at the produce distribution sites
through various organizations
(i.e. OSU Extension, Local
Matters).
Timeframe:
Objective
November 2015 – December 2018
Activities
Prairie Township CHAT will
implement the following activities
in the next 6-12 months.

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

Develop a cookbook with
recipes from community
members.
Recruit community members to
volunteer and provide physical
activity and healthy eating
education and support at
community events.
Cooking demonstrations
(“Dream Dinners”) and meal
preparation.
Community health scavenger
hunt.
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Produce
Distribution
Workgroup

Education
workgroup
Who is
Responsible

TBD
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Appendix E: Hamilton Township/Obetz CHAT Implementation Plan
Community Health Action Team Implementation Plan
Community Initiative: Hamilton Township/Obetz CHAT
Collective Purpose: *Purpose statement of the Community Partners of Southern Franklin
County:
“Having our finger on the P.U.L.S.E. of the community.”
People Matter (quality relationships, communications, building community, cooperation, mutual
trust, individual/family/entities.)
Utilize resources (networking, working together, support one another)
Leadership through influence (growth, responsibility, realistic goals)
Serving the community (educating the community by/through…, involvement, meaningful work,
solving community problems, meeting their need, responsibility.)
Excellence (in all things)
Strategic Partnerships - Community Partners of Southern Franklin County Partners:
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Columbus Regional Airport Authority
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Eastland-Fairfield Career & Technical Schools
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Focus Learning Academy
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Franklin County Public Health
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Girl Scouts
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Grace Ministries
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Hamilton Local School District
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Hoover YMCA Park
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KIDSConnect
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Leave A Mark Church
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Nationwide Insurance
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Ponderosa Restaurant
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South High Branch Library
Data and Indicators:
Since the Community Partners of Southern Franklin County are still in the Assess Phase, a
specific priority health goal has not been identified. Once the priority health goal is selected,
data and indicators will be identified in order to track and report progress.
Hamilton Township/Obetz CHAT Improvement Strategies:
Priority Health Goal:
Priority Population:
Timeframe:
Objective
Prairie Township CHAT will
assess the health needs of
the community and gain
clarity around the priority
health goal.
Promoting healthy behaviors and healthy living
Community members of Hamilton Township & Village of Obetz
April 2015 – October 2015
Activities
Who is
Responsible
 Create a community health profile for
 Franklin
Hamilton Township and Village of
County Public
Obetz to share data with the
Health staff
Community Partners of Southern
Franklin County.
 Use data in the health profile to narrow  Community
the focus of the priority health goal.
Partners
Revised: 4/20/2015
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Appendix F: 2014 – 2018 Expansion for FCPH Community Health Action Teams
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