Community Health Improvement Plan

From late 2020 to spring 2021, health care leaders from Marion County and Polk County came together to create a plan, called the 2021-2025 Community Health Improvement Plan or “CHIP”. The CHIP identifies aims and strategies to improve the Community Health Assessment (CHA) priority areas, which include: 

• • Substance use  
  • Behavioral health supports  
  • Housing 

To develop the CHIP, the group formed three workgroups – one for each CHA priority area. Each workgroup included community members, leaders, and experts. Together, they looked at information from the CHA and carefully chose aims and strategies. Then they wrote and shared the CHIP with other local key community organizations and groups for additional input before it was finished.

The CHIP’s overall strategies are: 

• • Partner with organizations who serve Black, Indigenous, Latino/a/x, Russian/Slavic, Asian and Pacific Islander communities to improve health.
  • For community members that have been unfairly treated, work to better understand their health.
  • Put language and culture first.