Author: Megan Murphy

Community Health Needs Assessment – SIGN UP to help gather data!

MAPP is in the process of data acquisition for the current Community Health Needs Assessment. The more people in the community that we hear from, the better! If you or your organization are interested in helping to gather local data, please sign up here:

SIGN UP!

Please complete as much as you can, if you do not have answers to all of the questions, that is okay. A CHNA Committee Member will be in touch with you soon in order to arrange for whatever data acquisition tool is the best fit (survey, focus group, or interview).

Community Health Needs Assessment

Surveys begin Friday, July 22 and continues through December 2022.

MAPP Launches New Community Health Needs Assessment Cycle

MAPP (Mobilizing for Action Through Planning and Partnerships) of the Southern Kenai Peninsula will be launching their Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) late July 2022. MAPP is the local health improvement coalition and has been convening these assessments and subsequent community health improvement plans since 2008. This will be the fourth CHNA completed of the Southern Kenai Peninsula by MAPP and South Peninsula Hospital. Data will be gathered July – November of this year, and a report published in the spring of 2023.

MAPP uses the 8 Dimensions of Wellness (Cultural, Economic, Emotional, Environmental, Intellectual, Physical, Social, & Spiritual) to define community health and the assessment process will consider all 8 Dimensions. The goal of the assessment is to identify the greatest needs and opportunities for local action to improve community health. The assessment will also consider any new or magnified needs due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

There will be a free community CHNA Volunteer Training this Friday, July 22 from 9-10:30 at the Kachemak Bay Campus. The training will cover how to convene surveys, focus group discussions, interviews, and effective note taking. Community members interested in assisting in data collection for the upcoming assessment are encouraged to attend. Registration can be completed online by following this link: https://forms.gle/TCrxUk9dFBqqpm9H8

Contractors and community volunteers will begin data collection the afternoon of Friday, July 22. Brief community surveys will be gathered in a variety of public spaces and focus group discussions will take place with established community groups.

Community Health Needs Assessment

Surveys begin Friday, July 22 and continues through October 2022.

Request for Proposals

 

MAPP of the southern Kenai Peninsula is accepting proposals to support their upcoming Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA).

All questions must be received by noon on Monday, May 9.

Deadline to apply is Monday, May 23 at 5:00 pm.

Questions and proposals should be emailed to mappofskp@gmail.com

DOWNLOAD CHNA RFP

RFP Questions and Answers
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For the compilation of community data in a format easily manipulated by community partners – can you give more information? Are you expecting a tableau dashboard or is an excel spreadsheet sufficient? We would want to be conscious of the potential for identifying information to be collected, if we’re not reporting out in aggregate.

Quantitative and qualitative data will be collected in ways that respect privacy and removes personal identifiers. Excel spreadsheets can be used for some data management, however, the contractor and MAPP Steering Committee will work together to identify presentation strategies (infographics, tables, stories, etc.) that best meet the objective: the CHNA is easy to read, paints a picture of community health status, and motivates the reader to make our community a better place for everyone.

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From the scope of work, it looks like this is a bit of an expansion on the 2019/2020 Needs Assessment, which appears to be primarily the results of a survey – is this correct?

We are anticipating this assessment will be more in-depth than the 2019/2020 report, more similar to our 2016 assessment. All past Assessments can be found here: https://mappofskp.net/about-us/community-health-needs-assessment/ 

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Is the expectation that the consultant selected will use the same survey instrument as was used previously, to provide comparable data to the 2019/2020? Is it expected/preferred to do a phone survey again, or are alternate methods of data collection, such as internet only, allowable?

The plan is to use the same Perceptions of Health Survey as in the past years, with the potential for adding new questions. Additional questions and methods for acquiring responses will be determined by discussions between the contractor and the MAPP Steering Committee.

MAPP Community Meeting December 17th

December 2021 MAPP Community Meeting – Celebrating Community Collaborations: COVID-19 Silver Linings.
 
Presentations were heard from the following organizations/projects, and are now available on Youtube! 
 
Video Set #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4O74e1PK5c – SKP Resilience Coalition– Kenai Peninsula Homelessness Coalition– Homer Seed Library– Coastal Institute/Semester by the Bay– Kachemak Community Center Park Renovations– 100 Women Who Care
 
 

– Outdoor Learning Spaces– Homer Drawdown Peatland Project– Friends of the Homer Skatepark– Pier One Theatre– All Things Addiction– 100 Men Who Care