Community Health
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Community Health
Learn how we’re working with community partners to advance health equity, expand access to care, and improve regional health. We support healthier communities through education, collaboration, and community-driven health improvement efforts.
2025 Community Health Needs Assessment:
A community health needs assessment (CHNA) is a systemic process involving the
community to identify and analyze community health needs, used to assist in
allocating resources where they are needed most.
2026-2029 Community Health Improvement Plan:
A community health improvement plan (CHIP) is the process that builds off of the community health needs assessment. It a long-term collaborative action plan to improve the health of a community. Developed with broad community input, the CHIP brings together resources and community partners around shared priorities and a unified framework for action.
Nashoba Health Equity Partnership (HEP):
Under the regional Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) and in partnership with the Health Equity Partnership of North Central MA (CHNA9), the Nashoba Associated Boards of Health leads a local micro-coalition, the Nashoba Health Equity Partnership (HEP), a permanent structure capable of advancing local community-led public health initiatives and responding to local needs and opportunities.
The Nashoba HEP was launched through a grant from The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts (THFCM), as part of the Commonwealth’s Advancing Health Equity in Massachusetts (AHEM) initiative. This micro-coalition allows us to focus on hyper-local concerns and resources, while benefiting from the support of a larger regional umbrella coalition.
The Nashoba HEP staff runs quarterly coalition-wide meetings along with regular working group meetings and other events. Each of the four working groups was formed in response to a particular priority area in the recently completed Nashoba Community Health Needs Assessment:
1. Social Isolation, Aging Population, & Digital Equity
2. Healthcare Access
3. Youth Mental Health
4. Holistic Community Planning
Click on the green button below for a Google Drive folder containing additional information on the Nashoba HEP and coalition materials.
