Community health assessment & planning
Facilitated assessments and community health improvement plans using a nationally recognized model — including workgroup facilitation, community meetings, and sustained partner and stakeholder engagement.
Public Health Consulting
Assessment, accreditation, and programming support for health departments
Strategic guidance for organizations building culturally relevant nutrition and community health initiatives.
Consulting is available for health departments needing support on community health assessment and planning, and on public health accreditation. Public health departments vary in their size, type of governance, and stage of readiness for accreditation — so engagements are scoped to where your agency actually is.
Organizations outside government also work with us on culturally relevant nutrition interventions and community health initiatives.
Services
Where we are most useful
Public health accreditation readiness
Support for departments at any stage of PHAB readiness, informed by leading a local health department through successful accreditation and by serving as a PHAB site reviewer.
Culturally relevant nutrition interventions
Program design for organizations that need interventions their communities will actually adopt — built from community needs and community assets rather than generic templates.
Program development & evaluation
Sustained disease management and prevention programming, population-based interventions, and health equity initiatives delivered within time and budget expectations.
The lifestyle, customs, habits, traditions and values of populations and individuals must be considered in any effort to improve health status. Leslene Gordon, PhD, RDN, LDN
Experience behind the work
- Four community health assessments and improvement plans directed for two public health departments
- Led a local public health department to successful PHAB accreditation
- Site reviewer for the National Public Health Accreditation Board
- Six years on the site visitor and review panel for accreditation of dietetics programs
- Over 30 years of public health and nutrition practice
Connect with Us
Public health departments vary in size, governance, and stage of readiness. Use the form to set up an appointment and discuss your agency's needs.
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