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ABOUT
THE PROJECT
CHIP Vision,
Goal, and Objectives
Vision: Communities and organizations making informed,
relevant decisions and engaged in activities that improve the health
and safety of their citizens.
Goal: Create a collaborative effort
among public and private organizations to develop consistent, reliable
sub-county data that can be used to identify and prioritize community
needs and facilitate local planning and action.
Objectives:
1. Develop and disseminate a reliable set of
sub-county data, determined by key leaders representing the diverse
rural, urban and culturally diverse needs of the two counties, that
will be valuable indicators of community health.
2. Compile, update and distribute data to all
stakeholders regularly.
3. Build an additional database of
information/list of sources for other data to assist local
communities/organizations in planning and decision making.
4. Identify key community-wide indicators of
changing health status.
5. Serve as a catalyst to engage Marion/Polk
communities and organizations in taking action to meet community
needs.
CHIP
Rationale
National and state level data are helpful for
comparison but don't help individual communities asses their unique
needs. Even county-level data may prove misleading in local analysis
as counties often contain a diverse assortment of populations in
both rural and urban areas. Ultimately, only local-level data gives
community leaders and policy makers the most understandable and
relevant means to address community health. Given this reality,
CHIP seeks block level/street address data that can be aggregated
for a community's individual neighborhoods, schools, etc. When compared
to county, state, and national data, local data can guide an understanding
of the conditions that exist and help determine realistic targets
for improvement. CHIP data should address the highest priority concerns
of the populace and should be gathered by race, ethnicity, age,
and gender to properly reflect the diverse character of each community.
Individuals and and organizations armed with consistent, local data
can work together building healthier and safer communities.
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Community
Engagement Impact on Policy Making & Accountability
From its inception, CHIP has been committed
to community participation. CHIP sought the input of hundreds of
community members to develop core priority indicators of community
health. From a list of over 200 health indicators, compiled from
Oregon Benchmarks, the Healthy Communities Report and Benchmarks
of the Portland/Multnomah Progress Board, Community Indicators/Greenville
County/South Carolina United Way, the Health Assessment Project
of Kansas, Today's Choices: Tomorrow's Community Vision & Values
Research & Benchmarks; Oregon Health Division data collection
lists and other health assessment and indicator models, 60 indicators
in 9 categories were identified as possible priorities.
A survey, sent to more than 500 organizations
in the two county area, asked which indicators were most important
in assessing community health. Nearly 20% responded ranging from a
regional theater, architect and accounting firms, business leaders
and owners and Hispanic and African American organizations. Their
choices help the Leadership Team to focus on the 25 highest priority
indicators.
The Leadership Team makes the policy decisions
and provides direction for CHIP. It includes representatives from
urban and rural communities -- elected officials, business,
education, government, community groups, providers and non-profits.
The Coordinating Team serves as the overall program support team and
includes the original founders of CHIP.
The Technical Support Work Teams, including
the Indicator and Definitions & Training subcommittees include
skilled experts in data collection, evaluation and analysis,
training, health care and human services, transportation, education,
management information systems, geocoding and GIS (geographic
information systems), corrections, cultural competency, migrant
worker issues, drug and alcohol abuse, community development and
collaboration, software development, children and family issues,
physicians and hospitals and more.
We maintain a continuing dialogue with 13
Community Progress Teams and more than 187 Community Partners of
Today's Choices: Tomorrow's Community. In fact, Today's Choices has
agreed to be the "disseminator" of the Priority Indicator
reports and data, and has dedicated a significant amount of staff
time over the next year to support CHIP efforts.
As CHIP completes its first phase of data
collection and comparison, a User Group is planned to seek responses
and ideas for improving the data, increasing the ability of groups
and communities to use the data and determining how it is best
packaged. This group will help develop the formalized feedback and
evaluation tools for all users of the data. Additionally, CHIP will
collect experience and best practice information from all data users
and share the information with all users. Ongoing reporting systems
will be developed to measure data use and effectiveness of actions
taken to impact priority indicators.
Examples of Working Together
One of the most important results of the
development of sub-county data is the opportunity for partners to
work together to respond to the data. For example, the Priority
Indicator citing Teen Pregnancy may show a high rate of occurrence
in one rural
community.
If all community partners -- the school
district, health department, local hospital, community progress
team, teen pregnancy prevention team, Adult & Family Services
office, local Youth Services Team and others -- are armed with this
information, they can more effectively determine strategies. In Mt.
Angel, the Community Progress Team (CPT) was able to obtain two key
pieces of local data regarding juvenile crime and high school age
youth. The data indicated that nearly 30% of high school youth were
involved or had been involved in some type of juvenile crime. The
CPT joined with the Children & Families Commission, local school
district and police department and Department of Human Resources
Community Partnership Team, as well as local volunteers and business
persons, to create a Youth Center and roster of after school and
weekend activities for middle and high school youth. The activities
range from tumbling and gymnastics classes to ski trips. In 18
months, juvenile crime as dropped nearly 30%. Without local data,
the residents of Mt. Angel didn't even know they had such a
significant problem.
CHIP also links with other Oregon counties
that are trying to develop similar data collection and analysis
tools, including Douglas and Clackamas Counties. CHIP works with the
Oregon Health Division to support their efforts to develop a pilot
project with the State of Washington's data collection effort,
VISTA-PH.
Decision making is an inclusive and
collaborative process using a consensus model which includes staff
and team members. The Coordinating Team works with Technical Support
Team/Subcommittee members to develop project action plans, raises
issue and provides analysis for the Leadership Team to discuss and
determine. We constantly seek outside input from government,
business, non-profits and community groups to ensure that the data
we collect will help their planning and decision making processes.
By employing the "flexible team" approach, we are able to
bring technical experts and community representatives together as
issues and needs change to better respond to the needs of users of
information and the community.
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CHIP
FUNDING
CHIP has no permanent source of funding. The project
operates on grants from the Marion County Health Department, Marion
County Children & Families Commission, Salem Hospital, and the
Rural Investment Fund. Additionally, our partners provide ongiong
technical, administrative, and staff support as well as materials
and copying, meeting space, and more. Polk County, Oregon Health
Division, and the State GIS office have donated technical staff,
research, and computer time.
THE
FUTURE OF CHIP
CHIP is currently gathering information on other
community health indicators in addition to those already on this
site. Other indicators which CHIP plans to add at a later
date are:
Economics
Children and Families
Physical and Mental Health and Substance
Abuse
Housing
Transportation
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CHIP PARTNERS
Marion County Health Advisory Board
Salem Area Chamber of Commerce
Salem Hospital
Mid Valley IPA (Independent Physician Association)
Marion County Health Department
Polk County Department of Human Services
Salem-Keizer School District
United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley
Oregon Health Division
Silverton School District
Valley Community Hospital
Marion County Children & Families Commission
Marion County Sheriff's Department
Today's Choices: Tomorrow's Community*
13 Community Progress Teams**
Polk County Commission on Children & Families
DHR Community Partnership Team
Marion County Board of Commissioners
Oregon Option
*Over 187 Community Partners - Includes business,
civic, and service organizations, government, providers, education,
non-profits.
**Includes the communities of Silverton, Stayton/Sublimity/Lyons/Mehama,
Mill City/Gates, Jefferson, Gervais/Hubbard, Aumsville/Turner, Woodburn,
Mt. Angel, Salem (2), Keizer.
Roles & Responsibilities
At the outset of the project, each partner invited
to participate on the CHIP Leadership and Technical Support Teams
was asked that their commitment include providing resources -- in
the form of technical, financial or in-kind support and to help
positively influence the collection of sub-county level data. All
CHIP partners have enthusiastically responded affirmatively. As
we refine our specific needs, the Leadership Team members have committed
to moving the project forward by providing support in the following
areas:
- Financial support & grant development.
- In-kind donations -- staff, space, administrative,
printing
- Policy development & leadership
- Compilation of research, experience and best
practices
- Technology - expertise, software development,
hardware/software, staffing
- Data collection, dissemination, and interpretation
- Training and development for community organizations
- Community capacity building
- Liaison - to communities, state & federal
government, professional organizations, community groups, business
and others.
Partner Contributions
Since the beginning of the CHIP effort, our
partners have made extraordinary contributions to keep this collaboration
moving forward. Our thanks to Marion County Health Department who
provided staff and technical support, funding and other administrative
supplies; Salem Hospital for staff support, funding, supplies, meeting
space and meals; Marion County Children & Families Commission
for technical support and significant funding; and Valley Community
Hospital for sponsoring a major grant. Thanks to the Oregon Health
Division and State Center for GIS for donated staff and technical
expertise.
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CHIP
Leadership Team
Russ Beck
Executive Director
United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley
Steve Bowles
President/CEO
Valley Community Hospital
Lila Chambers, R.N.
Strategic Planning Director
Valley Community Hospital
Ruth Daniels
Salem-Keizer School District
Jeff Davis
Director
Marion County Health Department
Randy Franke
Commissioner
Marion County Board of Commissioners
Ruth Hewett
Marion County Children & Families Commission
Homer Kearns
Superintendent
Salem-Keizer School District
Donna Middelton
Director
Polk County Human Services
Michael McLaren
Executive Director
Salem Area Chamber of Commerce
Chris Neilsen
Executive Director
Today's Choices: Tomorrow's Community
Dennis Noonan
President
Salem Hospital
Raul Ramirez
Marion County Sheriff
Craig Roessler
Superintendent
Silver Falls School District
Debra Waln
Mid Valley IPA
Patrick Vance
Marion County Health Advisory Board
Silverton Hospital
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CHIP
Coordinating Team
Roger Applegate
CHIP Project Manager
Marion County Mental Health
Lila Chambers, R.N.
Strategic Planning Director
Valley Community Hospital
Jeff Davis
Director
Marion County Health Department
Stacey Graham
CHIP Project Coordinator
Ruth Hewett
Community Volunteer
Donna Middleton
Director
Polk County Human Services
Polk County Health Advisory Board
Jim Randall
Community & Patient Relations
Salem Hospital
Vickie Simpson
Director, Health Services
Willamette University
Patrick Vance
Silverton Hospital
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CHIP
Technical Support Work Team
Bob Anderson
Chemeketa Community College
Dean Anderson
Polk County Land Information Services
Diane Bassett
Marion/Polk Food Share
Migrant Outreach Project
Bob Brevoort
Salem Hospital
Janet Bubl
Marion County Health Department
Jan Fritz
Marion County Children & Families Commission
Rebecca Hernandez
Marion County Children & Families Commission - Marion County Health
Department
Dean Hill
Mid Valley IPA
Charlene Hurst
Salem-Keizer School District
Sandy Maynard
DHR Community Partnership Team
Rob McDougald
Mid Willamette Valley Council of Governments
Larry Ogelsby
Marion County Corrections
Terri Rollman
Marion County Sheriff's Office
Marti Sohn
Polk County Public Health
Pamela Stefani
Catholic Community Services
Community Advocate
Patrick Vance
Silverton Hospital
Fred Weigman
State Service Center for GIS
Jennifer Woodward
Oregon Health Divison
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