Community Wellness Vital Signs: Core Community Wellness Indicators for Del Norte and Adjacent Tribal
Contains 20 core indicators plus contextual indicators selected from the below
Del Norte County and the adjacent tribal lands (DNATL) is one of fourteen places in California participating in Building Healthy Communities (BHC), a ten-year initiative of The California Endowment (TCE). The goal of BHC is to “support the development of communities where kids and youth are healthy, safe and ready to learn.”
This report presents a recommended set of 20 core community wellness indicators developed through a community based process. These core community wellness indicators are intended to give a snapshot of the past and current conditions in Del Norte County and to help guide and assess outcomes resulting from improvement efforts. Community health or wellness indicators are measures that act as barometers for underlying community health. Through regular assessments using a common set of indicators, communities can determine if policy and systems changes are making a difference.
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Rural Community Vital Signs
48 community health indicators for Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, and Mendocino Counties
Initial work by the California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP) identified the need for a common set of community health indicators to help guide and assess outcomes resulting from improvement efforts in the region. Community health indicators are measures that act as barometers for underlying community health. In the fall of 2009, CCRP initiated a year-long process of facilitating a Working Group to develop a set of community health indicators known as the Rural Community Vital Signs.
The outcomes of this project are a set of 48 community health indicators with existing data and a “wish list” of 44 indicators that would be useful for measuring community health, but currently lack a good or readily available data source for all four counties (Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, and Mendocino). The Vital Signs developed in this project link to numerous issues in various arenas (social, health, environment, and economy) and are intended to track trends and inspire action initiatives aimed at improving health in the region.
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