CHC 2015-2019 Evaluation Report

The purpose of this report is to synthesize the contributions of the Creating Healthy Communities (CHC) program from 2015 to 2019. The data incorporated into this report includes evaluation and program documentation data collected by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH), CHC staff, CHC coordinators, and the external evaluator Professional Data Analysts (PDA). 

CHC is evaluated using a principles-focused evaluation approach to assess CHC’s contribution to community change in 23 Ohio counties in which the program was implemented from 2015 to 2019. Evaluation efforts have focused on understanding the coordination of the program by ODH, characterizing community-level changes resulting from collective CHC efforts, and capturing both state and local-level changes in increasing access to fresh, healthy food, opportunities to be physically active, and tobacco-free living. 

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