Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)

What is the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)?

This is a process that is carried out every three years and is intended to improve public health and community responses. It involves conducting a Community Health Needs Assessment, compiling qualitative and quantitative data to inform the development of the CHIP. This process aims to create a comprehensive picture of our community's health concerns.

This is the third iteration of Monroe County CHIP workgroups as a collaboration with Monroe County Health Department, IU Health Bloomington and City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department. These partners, along with Community Voices for Health in Monroe County (CVHMC), developed the 2021 Community Health Assessment (CHA), the guiding document for the CHIP workgroups.

CHIPs (and associated teams/workgroups) are valuable public health tools because they take information directly from the community (through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and locally, the recent Think Tank) to prioritize areas of health needs and focus attention on making change from the ground up rather than a top-down prescriptive approach.

2022-2023 FOCUS AREAS

These Top 10 Community Health Issues were identified from the IU Health Community Health Needs Assessment, Monroe County Department of Health Community Health Assessment, and the Community Voices for Health in Monroe County data collection.

This year Monroe County residents selected the following categories as the top community health priority areas for CHIP teams to focus on:

1. Poverty and Navigating Health & Social Services

2. Inequity, Discrimination & Bias

3. Substance Use & Mental Health

Join a CHIP Action Team to help address one of these categories!