Community Collaborations Live Healthy DeKalb Timeline


Live Healthy DeKalb Timeline


Live Healthy DeKalb Will Conduct Community Health Assessments between January - June, 2007

 

Phases 1- 3: Conduct Four Assessments (January - June, 2007)

  • Community Themes and Strengths: What do we care about?
  • Local Public Health System: Who are we, what are we doing and how well are we doing it?
  • Community Health Status: How healthy are we?
  • Forces of Change: What's pushing us around?
    Related Activities:
  • Four committees (one for each assessment) with over 60 total volunteers
  • 3,000 completed community surveys for Community Themes and Strengths
  • Local Public Health System Committee included volunteers from schools, law enforcement, DeKalb Community Service Board, American Diabetes Association, Georgia Power, etc.
  • Community Health Status Committee's data review included the Status of Health in DeKalb 2005 Report, 2000 Census, Youth Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (2005), Communicable Disease Data, 2000- 2004 Georgia Planning Information Report
  • Five brainstorming sessions for Forces of Change
  • A community-wide meeting to gather input and get feedback on assessment results