CHNAs

SYNERGY

 

 

Community Health Network Areas (CHNA)

A Community Health Network Area is a coalition that is comprised of public, non-profit and private sector individuals who are working together to build healthier communities though community-based prevention planning and health promotion.  CHNAs cover 351 Massachusetts towns and cities, split into 27 different geographic networks throughout the state.  There are six CHNAs in the Southeast.  Click below on the CHNA in your area to find the next meeting, latest updates and contact information for your CHNA.

 

 

The Southeast Center for Healthy Communities collaborates with the following CHNAs:

 

CHNA 22: Greater Brockton Community Health Network

  • Serving the communities of Abington, Avon, Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Easton, Holbrook, Stoughton, West Bridgewater and Whitman.

 

CHNA 23: Greater Plymouth Partners for a Healthy Community

  • Serving the communities of Carver, Duxbury, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Kingston, Marshfield, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton and Rockland.

 

CHNA 24: Greater Attleboro and Taunton Health Education Response (GATHER)

  • Serving the communities of Attleboro, Berkley, Dighton, Lakeville, Mansfield, Middleborough, North Attleborough, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk and Taunton.

 

CHNA 25: Fall River Partners for a Healthier Community

  • Serving the communities of Fall River, Somerset, Swansea and Westport.

 

CHNA 26: Greater New Bedford Health and Human Services Coalition

  • Serving the communities of Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Freetown, Marion, Mattapoisett, New Bedford, Rochester and Wareham.

 

CHNA 27: Cape and Islands Community Health Network

  • Serving the communities of Barnstable, Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Chilmark, Dennis, Eastham, Edgartown, Falmouth, Gay Head, Gosnold, Harwich, Mashpee, Nantucket, Oak Bluffs, Orleans, Provincetown, Sandwich, Tisbury, Truro, Wellfleet, West Tisbury and Yarmouth.

 

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SYNERGY is the Southeastern Massachusetts Networking Group for Public Health, a regional networking group which includes all of the southeast Community Network Areas (CHNAs) and whose mission is to improve public health through communication, networking and collaboration.     

Goals:

  • To build a flexible regional public health network involving the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Southeast Regional Office, the Southeast Center for Healthy Communities, the local Boards of Health, the Community Health Networks Areas (CHNAs) and others.

 

  • Provide and deliver core public health services within the Southeast.

 

  • Support community health improvement resulting in empowered communities.

 

 

 

The Essential Public Health Services

The Essential Services framework was developed in 1994 as a method for better identifying and describing the core processes used in public health to promote health and prevent disease. All public health responsibilities (whether conducted by the local public health agency or another organization within the community) can be categorized into one of the services.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Essential Public Health Services are as follows:

 

 

  1. Monitor health status to identify community health problems.

  2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.

  3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.

  4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.

  5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.

  6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.

  7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.

  8. Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce.

  9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.

  10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.

From www.naccho.org

 

 

 

 

MAPP

MAPP is a web-based tool that was designed to help communities work through the steps needed to work on improving health and quality of life through community-wide strategic planning.  The tool comes with a lot of information, as well as vignettes demonstrating the principles in action in real communities.

 

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