Community Health Improvement Plan

A Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) is a community-based blueprint for improving population health and health system performance. It lays out a long-term, strategic effort to address local health issues. It outlines ways organizations will help address the community's priorities for improving overall health and well-being.

The CHIP is developed after the Community Health Assessment (CHA) and is informed by those results. The CHA provides data and information to identify local health issues that are prioritized by the community. The CHIP is used to describe how local stakeholders will address the health priorities of the CHA.

In partnership with All In For Health, Jackson Care Connect was involved in creating the 2025-2029 CHIP for Jackson and Josephine counties.

Access to Health Care

Goal 1: Address barriers to connecting community members to health care

Goal 2: Ensure timely access to care across the healthcare system

Goal 3: Ensure that all healthcare providers and support staff will provide trauma-informed, culturally appropriate, and patient-centered care

Behavioral Health

Goal 1: Reduce the negative health outcomes related to mental health and substance use disorders

Goal 2: Increase availability of, and access to, behavioral health services for all

Goal 3: Create a crisis response system in which everyone always has someone to talk to, someone to respond to, and somewhere to go

Community Building

Goal 1: Increase social connection opportunities in our region that are accessible, inclusive, and culturally relevant

GoalL 2: Increase active engagement, diverse representation, and community connection in leadership and decision-making processes for community initiatives

Goal 3: Make AIFH a consistent, accessible touchpoint for community members and partners to collaborate in community health improvement efforts

Housing:

Goal 1: Increase the supply of housing across the continuum from emergency housing to home ownership

Goal 2: Reduce our communities’ populations of unhoused individuals through increased navigation and outreach efforts

Goal 3: Improve, expand, and sustain affordable and dignified housing choices for the unstably housed