Erie County Seeks Community Input for 2025-2030 Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan

Every six years, county health departments in New York State are required to work with the local health care systems to develop a Community Health Assessment (CHA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). The CHA is a report on the health and well-being of the people who live in the county. The CHIP is a blueprint of plans to achieve specific goals for community health improvement over the next six-year period. This cycle, ECDOH's Office of Health Equity is leading these projects in partnership with Catholic Health, Kaleida Health, Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) and Live Well Erie to meet the NYS requirements for this process by December 2025.

Community input throughout this process will give these healthcare systems valuable information about the most important health conditions and challenges to healthy living in Erie County. ECDOH and its partners have created a survey to gather this input. Results from this survey be included in the CHA and will inform the development of the CHIP. These documents are also used by hospitals as they develop clinical services for patients.

Surveys like this often don't get enough responses from:

• People of color

• Members of the LGBTQ+ community

• People living in rural communities or neighborhoods that have been neglected by government and businesses

• People with limited proficiency in English

Input from people belonging to these groups is especially valuable!

Online versions of the survey are available in English, Arabic, Bengali and Spanish. Printable versions of this survey are available in English (and large print), Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Spanish and Swahili

Make your voice heard in the planning process for community health improvement by completing this survey by the end of the year (12/31/2024)! After completing the survey, you will have the option of entering a raffle to win a $100 gift card to Tops Friendly Markets!

The CHA survey can be completed on the ECDOH CHA/CHP web page.

There is also an option to complete the survey in person, on an iPad or paper version, at several community events that will be attended by staff from the ECDOH Office of Health Equity. See the ECDOH events calendarto find events you may like to attend.

Learn more the CHA/CHIP.

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Direct link to survey.

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