Community Health Needs Assessment & Evaluation
Funding for this project is provided by a grant from the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth.
Funding for this project is provided by a grant from the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth.
- The last Community Health Needs Assessment in Bedford City/County was conducted by the Bedford Community Health Foundation in 1999.
- This assessment will help identify policy, systems, and environmental issues that promote and/or discourage good nutrition and physical activity for families in the community.
- It will lay the groundwork necessary to develop a Community Action Plan aimed at changing policy, systems, and environment to support and encourage good nutrition and physical activity in the county's families.
- This project will utilize the CHANGE process which has been proven successful in other jurisdictions.
- The Coalition has chosen five sectors to be surveyed. They include the Community at Large sector, the Community Organization sector, Health Care sector, School sector, and Work Site sector.
- Data will be gathered from each sector using focus groups, surveys, and photo/voice evidence
- The data will be entered into the CHANGE system and weighted according to the following criteria:
- Impact
- Magnitude
- Seriousness
- Feasibility
- Consequence of inaction
- A community action plan will be created based on the prioritized and weighted data.
- Two policy or environment-related activities, one addressing nutrition and one addressing physical activity, will be implemented in the county.
- Needs assessment begins -- July 1, 2012
- Needs assessment completed -- June 30, 2013
- Action plan completed -- December 30, 2013
- Nutrition activities implemented -- June 30, 2014
