Helping Communities Create Healthy Places
Services We Offer
Training, Technical Assistance, & Capacity Building
SHC offers training, technical assistance, workshops, webinars, peer learning groups, and strategic planning in the following areas:
- Health Impact Assessments (HIA) – Cross-Sector Collaboratives/Coalition-Building and Leadership Development – How to build and sustain successful cross-sector, action-oriented, and policy-focused coalitions, teams and partnerships (2 hrs., 1/2 day, full-day, and 8-month training program)
- Health in All Policies (HiAP) – How to assess, design and implement HiAP Initiatives
- Healthy Communities – How to build capacity on the nexus between health and the built environment (transportation, housing, design and planning, environmental health, natural and green spaces, and healthy food)
- Healthy and Equitable Urban Planning – How to incorporate health and equity into community planning, redevelopments, and land use code and design guidelines
- Healthy and Equitable Transportation – How to incorporate health and equity into statewide transportation plans
- How to incorporate health and the built environment in community health improvement processes
Research & Evaluation
SHC offers research and evaluation services including:
- Collecting health and demographic data
- Developing measurements and indicators
- Conducting community-based equity assessments
- Qualitative data collection, e.g., key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and intercept interviews; Quantitative data collection, e.g., surveys
- Author reports, articles, policy scans, best and promising practice reviews, case studies, white papers, and fact sheets
- Designing logic models
- Conducting community-based participatory research
- Conducting literature reviews
- Using geospatial data to plan and implement population-level programs and policies
- Designing broad surveys, interviews and focus group questionnaires
Health Impact Assessment and Healthy Transportation, Design, and Planning
SHC has over 15 years of experience with conducting health impact assessments (HIAs) and integrating health and equity into neighborhood, housing, parks, and transportation planning processes. SHC can help to:
- Conduct health impact assessments of policies, programs and plans
- Provide technical assistance on the HIA steps, implementation, audits, and strategic planning
- Assess local, regional, and state planning documents, e.g., master or comprehensive plans, neighborhood plans, transportation and redevelopment plans, and sustainability plans
- Assess the built environment for access, safety and ADA compliance, e.g. walking and bicycle audits, food audits, transit audits, park audits, and healthy neighborhood audits
- Conduct research and literature reviews
- Conduct training/workshops (2 hrs., 1/2 and full day)
- Incorporate health and the built environment in community health improvement processes
Community Readiness & Engagement
SHC has significant experience developing, implementing and facilitating cross-sector teams and coalitions, engaging with the community, elected officials and other stakeholders and working on collective movements. SHC can help to:
- Assess community’s readiness related to climate, shifting demographics, change in transit infrastructure, safety, healthy and affordable housing, and access to services and healthy food
- Recruit, retain and build stronger cross-sector coalitions, organizations and teams
- Develop and implement community engagement activities to educate, build political will and foster change
- Develop and implement community-change policies, campaigns or plans
- Evaluate teams and coalitions for capacity and effectiveness
- Conduct Cross-Sector Collaborative/Coalition-Building and Leadership Development Trainings – How to build and sustain successful cross-sector, action-oriented, and policy-focused coalitions, teams and partnerships (2 hrs., 1/2 day, full-day, and 8-month training program)
Policy & Program Development & Advocacy
SHC offers policy and program analysis and development at the local, state and national level. SHC can help to:
- Conduct comprehensive policy scans
- Complete policy and program analysis
- Manage and support policy and program implementation
- Research, develop and support education, advocacy and campaigns for successful policy adoption and implementation
- Incorporate environmental health into public health policies, programs and plans
- Develop public policy to influence political will, enhance regulations to advocate change
- Research and identify promising policies, governing principles, policy statements or standards
SHC also supports other non-profits programs and causes that align with our mission through building alliances, co-writing grants, fiscal sponsorships, and marketing.
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