MAPP Story Bank
The MAPP Story Bank showcases videos from communities describing their unique approach to MAPP. From small frontier counties to big cities, new users to seasoned implementers, these stories highlight the many ways MAPP adapts to local contexts, populations, and resources. Our hope is to provide MAPP communities with a platform to inspire and inform other communities interested in or engaged in the MAPP process.
The videos in this Story Bank speak to the core aspects of a MAPP process:
- Partnerships: MAPP convenes partners across the local public health system to drive the community health assessment and improvement plan. Partners contribute important resources and expertise, expand MAPP’s reach to community members, and help address root causes of inequity that cut across the community.
- Community Power Building: MAPP tasks communities with supporting community power building by ensuring that those most impacted by inequities guide the process, make key decisions, contribute to the assessments, and help drive the action plan. The Power Primer can be used to address power imbalances throughout MAPP.
- MAPP Assessments: The MAPP assessments gather a broad range of qualitative and quantitative data. The complete Community Health Assessment tells the story of the community’s health and the factors that influence it. The assessments identify root causes of inequities, incorporate community voice, and emphasize the importance of partnerships.
- CHIP Development and Implementation: MAPP encourages organizations to take coordinated, community-wide action to improve community health, driven by shared goals and measures.
- Prioritization of Strategic Issues for the CHIP: The community prioritizes strategic issues identified in the assessments to include in the community health improvement plan. There are many different prioritization tactics to engage community members and partners in identifying areas for improvement.
- Quality Improvement: Quality Improvement principles are integrated throughout all three phases of MAPP, from preparing for a new cycle, conducting the three assessments, and implementing the CHIP. MAPP is a continuous process, and each new cycle builds on the last.
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