Hampshire County-wide  Health Improvement Plan SURVEY

You are receiving this survey because we’d like your input on community health issues from your unique perspective. Thank you for taking the time to fill it out! It should take about 10 minutes to complete.

What is purpose of this survey?
 
  • Your responses will help us to accomplish the following:
    Better understand the great work already going on with respect to health in Hampshire County
  • Better understand who is already collaborating and what new collaborations are needed
  • Identify areas of need and opportunities for improvement
  • Identify expertise and resources
Who are we?

We are a steering committee representing a range of organizations and initiatives focused on health improvement in Hampshire County. We have come together to create a County-wide Community Health Improvement Plan that will guide our collective work for the next few years.

What is a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)?

A health improvement plan is a long-term, systematic effort to address public health problems based on community health and other assessments. This plan will be used by health and other public and private human service agencies and community partners to articulate shared priorities and coordinate and target resources that promote health. In this process, we are defining “health” as more than just medical or health care. We recognize that health is determined by a variety of factors, including our environment, access to resources such as education and income, social support and safety where we live, work and play.

Our steering committee has engaged the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission to facilitate this process. Our hospitals have completed a comprehensive health needs assessments and we will be building on those findings for our process.

Here are links to the Community Health Needs Assessments if you want to take a look:

Steering Committee and their organizational affiliations:

Please attend our public gathering this fall!

Please join us at our County-wide convening on October 6, 2017 from 9:00am-12:00pm at the Hadley Farms Meeting House. We will share the findings of this survey, hear from notable speakers, and work together to create the Hampshire County Community Health Improvement Plan.  

REGISTER HERE

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* 1. What is your name? (include name in text box OR type 'anonymous'):

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* 2. I RESIDE in the community of...

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* 3. I WORK for an organization, municipality, or community initiative in Hampshire County (Complete all that apply or skip if N/A):

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* 4. I VOLUNTEER for an organization, municipality, or community initiative in Hampshire County (Complete all that apply or skip if N/A):

The next few questions are related to your concerns and involvement with issues impacting health in Hampshire County.

Below is a list of the health issues that surfaced through the community health needs assessment processes led by Cooley Dickinson Health Care and Baystate Eastern Region.

We would like you to consider how your volunteer or paid work impacts these health issues, whether or not your organization, municipality, or community initiative has a stated health improvement mission.

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* 5. Please review the following list. Which health issues do you believe your work (including volunteer work) has a direct or indirect impact on? Select from drop-down menu which group/s you are currently working with, next to the health issue/s you're working on:

  Is work focused on any of the following groups?
Racial justice and equity
Poverty
Lack of affordable housing
Lack of transportation
Limited availability of providers
Insurance-related challenges
Lack of medical/behavioral care coordination
Health literacy
Cultural humility/cultural responsiveness
Chronic health conditions
Need for healthy food and physical activity
Substance use
Mental health
Experience of life-disrupting trauma
Tobacco use
Infant and perinatal health risk factors
Sexual health
Oral Health/Access to Dental care
Domestic/Interpersonal violence

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* 6. OPTIONAL: Please share a positive outcome of your work:

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* 7. OPTIONAL: How do community members who are directly affected by the health issue you are working on inform your work, and how are they directly engaged in your organization’s efforts to improve health?

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* 8. The next few questions are about health issues that you WISH you were working on, but you are not currently working on.

What issue/s do you WISH you were working on?

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* 9. What PREVENTS you or your organization from working on that issue?

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* 10. For any or all of the health issues you identified that you’re working on, how does institutional and structural racism inform these health issues and how does your work acknowledge and address it?

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* 11. Is there anything else that you think we should know that could help inform the Hampshire County Health Improvement Plan?

Thank you very much for taking our survey!

Please join us at our County-wide convening on October 6, 2017 from 8:30am-12:00pm at the Hadley Farms Meeting House. We will share the findings of this survey, hear from notable speakers, and work together to create the Hampshire County Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).  

REGISTER HERE

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