Our Capabilities
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Support community engagement and integration for health promotion and readiness efforts across clinical and community environments.
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Create sustainable cross-sector partnerships and bi-directional structured systems that allow community health promotion and the clinical environment to support one another.
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Support the development and implementation of collaborative community health improvement (CHI) processes across the DOD.
The overall end goal remains – to support readiness and health of the force. This can be achieved most efficiently with a collaborative, integrated, and sustainable approach.
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CHI processes support the broader goals and objectives of the DOD operational objectives as outlined in DOD Instruction 1010.10, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the TFF Framework as delineated in the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3405.01. Coalitions, collaboratives, and associated working groups provide strategic platforms to ensure effective health, readiness and resilience-related integration across the military enterprise.
DHA Public Health created the Military Community Health Assessment and Improvement, or mCHAI, process and corresponding Toolbox
by adapting a nationally recognized CHI framework, Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) 2.0 from the National Association of County and City Health Officials. The mCHAI is a community-driven, strategic health improvement planning process for use in military environments.
The Guide for Planning and Implementing Collaborative Community Health Improvement Processes in the Military Environment supports the development and implementation of collaborative CHI processes across the DOD, which include building a coalition of committed partners, performing community assessments, and creating an action plan to integrate and synchronize multiple efforts, with the overarching goal of improving health, readiness, and resilience across the Force. The Guide incorporates the
mCHAI Toolbox with resources, modifiable tools, and examples to support CHI processes in military settings. The Guide provides a strategic approach to CHI in support of military communities and the Prevention Plan of Action
(PPoA) 3.0.
The DoD’s prevention strategy, the PPoA, is the blueprint for a Department-wide approach to primary prevention of harmful behaviors and now expands to include TFF, seeking to achieve maximum readiness of the military community, to the extent practicable. The PPOA 3.0 reaffirms the DoD’s commitment to preventing harmful behaviors, acknowledges the continued need for Integrated Primary Prevention (IPP), and envisions embedding the established IPP approach within the Department’s new Next Generation TFF Framework.
For more information please contact: dha-ph.mchai@health.mil
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CHP provides consultative support for the execution of a public health framework across the DOD:
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Health Promotion Leadership Forum (HPLF): Quarterly synchronization meeting for command and installation health promotion and integrated prevention leadership and staff. DOD employees can visit the HPLF site to learn more and access Forum updates, session recordings, slides and other resources.
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Ad-hoc Consultative Support: CHP provides ad-hoc consultative support for community health assessment and improvement and public health planning.
The Military Community Health Assessment and Improvement (mCHAI) Toolbox utilizes a strategic approach to public health planning that enables military communities to build partnerships, identify the most pressing health-related priorities, develop or coordinate effective strategies and achieve measurable improvements in health, readiness and resilience. The Toolbox—
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Provides planning and implementation guidance for development of community health improvement plans (CHIPs) in military environments.
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Explains the processes necessary for establishing effective community coalitions, collaboratives, and working groups.
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Provides a standardized Community Strengths and Themes Assessment (CSTA) enabling all military locations to capture community perceptions regarding quality of life and health and wellness among key physical, behavioral, family, spiritual and social risk areas within the military environment.
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Supports Public Health Accreditation and the Prevention Plan of Action 3.0.
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Community Strengths and Themes Assessment (CSTA)
Current Department of Defense Instructions (DoDI) direct completion of comprehensive assessments of military communities for health risk factors and needs. A comprehensive CSTA is supported by DoDI 1010.10, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; DoDI 6400.11, DoD Integrated Primary Prevention Policy for Prevention Workforce and Leaders; and service-specific regulations (e.g., Army Regulation (AR) 600-63, AR 40-5, AR 608-1).
For military locations seeking Public Health Accreditation, the CSTA helps eligible installation departments of public health meet the national public health accreditation standards for community health assessment as delineated by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB).
Recent CSTA publications:
JKO VCLASS DHA Public Health: Essentials of Health Promotion Course
DHA Public Health Essentials of Health Promotion is a health promotion course designed to equip learners with foundational knowledge and skills to improve the health and well-being of warfighters and military communities. Students will learn evidence-informed health promotion practices and develop competencies in areas of practice such as community health assessment, program planning, evaluation, and health communication. The course contains six modules, each being a self-paced, on-demand, online learning activity housed on the JKO
VCLASS (Virtual Classroom) platform. 3.0 CE/CMEs are available for successfully completing the course.
Learn more on the
DCPH-A Training page. The course announcement is also available in
PPTX and
PDF formats.
