Resources

Section 1: Introduction

• BMI-for-age growth charts provide a means of determining weight status for age and gender using BMI.

Section 2: Program Evaluation Overview

• Section 1 of Chapter 36 in the Community Tool Box offers additional examples of the ways in which program evaluation can be used.
• CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation consists of six connected steps that can be used as a starting point to tailor an evaluation of your CHWP.
• CDC’s Evaluation Guide: Practical Strategies for Culturally Competent Evaluation provides cultural context for each of the 6 steps listed above in the CDC Framework for Program Evaluation.
• The Community Tool Box’s chapters on Evaluating Community Programs and Initiatives provide guidance on how to frame program evaluation.

Section 3:

• BetterEvaluation provides detailed information about evaluability assessments and templates.
• County Health Rankings & Roadmaps offer data on health outcomes that may be of interest such as obesity prevalence across communities in the United States.
• The National Implementation Research Hexagon Tool is both a qualitative and quantitative resource to assess evaluation readiness.
• Ready, Set, Change! is an online decision support tool for assessing organizational readiness.
• The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory is a set of several online resources, including questionnaires and surveys, that can be used to quantitatively assess the degree and strength of collaboration within an organization.

Section 5:

• A Guide to Methods for Assessing Childhood Obesity describes six of the most common adiposity assessment methods and key considerations when collecting weight-related outcomes.
• The 5210 Full Health Children Toolkit contains tips and questionnaires that can be used to gather process measures for a variety of audiences.
• Family Nutrition and Physical Activity (FNPA)’s screening tool is an easy-to-use set of questionnaires on healthy behaviors.
• The Feeding Practices and Structures questionnaire uses parental self-report to determine feeding and meal practices.
• This parenting style questionnaire uses parental self-report to determine parenting strategies.
• The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale is a brief questionnaire that can be used to assess and track self-esteem of program participants.
• The Self-perception Profile for Adolescents is an in-depth survey that can be used to assess perceptions of self-identity in children and adolescents as an outcome measure.

Section 6:

• The Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool helps providers conduct assessments to inform patients’ treatment plans and make referrals to community services. The first 10 items in the tool are related to SDoH.
• Addressing Health Equity in Evaluation Efforts helps users integrate health equity considerations into each step of an evaluation.
• Building a Culture of Health in Childhood Obesity: Overview & Action Plan for Medicaid Health Plans provides helpful information when thinking about contextual factors in childhood obesity.
• Getting to Equity in Obesity Prevention: A New Framework presents a deliberate focus on equity when designing and implementing strategies for obesity prevention.
• The Health Equity Resource Toolkit for State Practitioners Addressing Obesity Disparities provides important resources to implement effective responses to obesity in populations that are facing health disparities.
• Promoting Food Security for All Children provides food insecurity screening tools and resources and recommendations for how providers can address food insecurity among the populations they work with.
• Screen and Intervene: A Toolkit for Pediatricians to Address Food Insecurity includes a validated two-question food insecurity screening tool and provides guidance on how providers can address food insecurity among their patients and families.
• Social Determinants of Health 101 for Health Care: Five Plus Five is a discussion paper that provides readers with five things that are known about SDoH in health care and five things to learn about SDoH in health care.

Section 7:

• A Sustainability Planning Guide for Healthy Communities provides tools and resources to be used as a stepwise guide to support the sustainability of programs and policies that have been implemented in communities.
• The Program Sustainability Assessment Tool is a 40-item self-assessment tool that programs or involved parties can utilize to evaluate program sustainability.
• Planning, Building and Sustaining a Childhood Obesity Program: A Survival Guide is a useful resource to consult when developing your sustainability plans.

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