Tools & Resources
Community Readiness
This tool (from Community Tool Box) provides an overview of the Community Readiness Model and maps other Community Tool Box chapters and sections to the stages of readiness. It can be found in Choose Effective Policies & Programs under...
Community Readiness Model
This tool (from Tri-ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University) assesses how ready a community is to address an issue. The basic premise is that matching an intervention to a community’s level of readiness is absolutely essential for success. It can be found in...
Criteria for Choosing Promising Practices and Community Interventions
This tool (from Community Tool Box) defines promising practices and interventions and suggests strategies for finding them. It can be found in Choose Effective Policies & Programs under...
What Drives Health
This tool (from RWJF) discusses how social factors like education, income, work, and housing can affect health directly and indirectly. It can be found in Focus on What's Important under ...
Defining and Analyzing the Problem
This tool (from Community Tool Box) includes guidance to help communities define a problem and determine whether an identified problem is a priority. It can be found in Focus on What's Important under Prepare to...
Developing Facilitating Skills
This tool (from Community Tool Box) provides an overview of what facilitation skills are and why they’re important. This section also covers three basic parts of facilitation: the process of the meeting, skills and tips for guiding the process, and preventing and dealing with disrupters.
Priority Setting Process Checklist
This tool (from The Health Communication Unit) presents a priority-setting checklist that can be used as you prepare for a priority-setting process, or as a reflection tool, after you’ve determined your priorities. The checklist considers data gathering, meaningful stakeholder participation, time, resources, and decision making.Prioritizing Issues Exercise
This tool (from Healthy People 2020) is a two-page exercise designed to help the group decide on which issue(s) to focus.
Analyzing Root Causes of Problems: The "But Why?" Technique
This tool (from Community Tool Box) discusses what a root cause analysis is, why and when it’s useful, and how it works.
Guide to Prioritization Techniques
This tool (from NACCHO) describes five prioritization methods: Multivoting, Strategy grids, Nominal group technique, the Hanlon method, Prioritization matrix. Each sub-section includes step-by-step instructions on implementation followed by examples illustrating practical applications.