Community Health Gateway

Build What Works

The Community Health Gateway can help you build effective community health programs and improve services you offer. Resources and examples in this Gateway are chosen for effectiveness and adaptability and drawn from programs with a strong history of service and community success. By starting from approaches that are known to be effective, you can make the best use of limited funding and resources.

Evidence-Based Toolkits

• Community Health Workers Toolkit
  Resources to help you develop a community health worker (CHW)
  program to reach underserved populations, using evidence-based
  approaches from other rural communities.
• Rural Obesity Prevention Toolkit
  Resources to help you develop an obesity prevention program, building on best practices of successful obesity prevention programs.

Future Toolkits

More toolkits are being developed to help improve your community’s health:

• Mental Health
• Oral Health
• Care Coordination
• Health Promotion and Education

About the Community Health Gateway

The Community Health Gateway showcases program approaches that you can adapt to fit your community and the people you serve, allowing you to:

• Research approaches to featured community health programs
• Discover what works and why
• Learn about common obstacles
• Connect with program experts
• Evaluate you program to show impact

Gateway resources are made available through the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis in collaboration with the Rural Assistance Center. Funding is provided by the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP), Health Resources and Services Administration.

More Useful Tools

Economic Impact Analysis
Show how your program’s grant funding affects your community’s economic well-being and share this information with sponsors, funders and your community

Planning for Sustainability
Tools to help you plan and position your grant-funded projects so that services can be sustained over the long term.

Success Stories & Lessons Learned
See how other programs have succeeded and adapt their methods to help strengthen your program