___What is MAPP 2.0? Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) is a framework for community health assessment and improvement planning to achieve health equity. MAPP 2.0 was developed as an update to MAPP 1.0 in 2023 in response to a national evaluation. It centers principles of health equity and community engagement and offers a more streamlined process to community health improvement. ___MAPP’s foundational principles are: Equity: Encourages shared exploration of and community action to address the social injustices that create and maintain inequities. Flexible: Meets the needs of diverse MAPP communities through an adaptable framework. Continuous: Promotes continuous learning and improvement through multiple cycles of community assessment, planning, action, and evaluation. Community Power: Builds community power to ensure those most impacted by inequities are those who guide the process. Inclusion: Fosters belonging by identifying and removing barriers to community participation. Trusted Relationships: Builds connection and trust by honoring the knowledge, expertise, and voice of community members and stakeholders. Data and Community Informed Action: Identifies priorities, strategies, and action plans based in data of community needs. Strategic Collaboration and Alignment: Creates a strategy to improve community health that aligns the missions, goals, resources, and reach of partners across sectors. Full Spectrum Actions: Encourages community improvement through approaches addressing root cause, social determinants of health, and health outcomes that enable health and well-being for all. ___MAPP’s three phases are: Phase I: Build the Community Health Improvement Foundation Phase II: Tell the Community Story Phase III: Continuously Improve the Community Why use MAPP? ___MAPP is used to systematically identify what the most pressing issues are affecting population health at the community level and to make an actionable, realistic plan for how those issues can be addressed through the collective efforts of organizations and agencies across the entire community. ___The goal of MAPP is to achieve health equity, which is “the assurance of the conditions for optimal health for all people”2. MAPP helps communities explore what factors and conditions contribute to unjust differences in health outcomes Who should take part in and use the MAPP process? MAPP is implemented by community members and the entire local public health system including: ___Local, state, or Tribal health department ___Community based organizations (CBOs) ___Health centers, including federally qualified health centers ___Non-profit hospitals ___Organizations who contribute to the social determinants of health including: ___Health care access and quality (e.g., social services organizations, public insurance) ___Food security (e.g., food banks, supplemental nutrition programs (WIC)) ___Neighborhood and built environment (e.g. parks and recreation, transportation) ___Education (e.g., department of education, community colleges) ___Economic stability (e.g., housing agencies, unemployment support) ___Community power building organizations ___Resource contributors When might you employ a MAPP process? ___MAPP is best suited for guiding a broad strategic planning process that engages organizations and groups across the community, or in the following scenarios: ___When there is an interest in exploring root causes of inequity ___When there’s been an issue or crisis that resulted in lessons learned ___When it is mandated for the municipality (e.g, by the state for the county) or for the organization (e.g., non-profit hospital) ___ When there’s money available for public health improvement ___When strategic planning across the community is needed for a specific public health priority How do you conduct a MAPP process? Phase I: Build the Community Health Improvement Foundation ___Do a Stakeholder and Power Analysis ___Establish or Revisit CHI Leadership Structures ___Engage and Orient the Steering Committee ___Establish Administrative Structures for MAPP ___Develop the Community Vision ___Do the Starting Point Assessment ___Identify CHI Infrastructure Priorities and Develop Workgroups ___Develop the Workplan and Budget Phase II: Tell the Community Story ___Form the Assessment Design Team ___Design the Assessment Process ___Do the Three Assessments ___Implement the Community Partner Assessment (CPA) ___Implement the Community Status Assessment (CSA) ___Implement the Community Context Assessment (CCA) ___Triangulate Data, Identify Themes, and Develop Issue Statements. ___Develop Issue Profiles through Root Cause Analysis ___Share CH[N]A Findings Phase III: Continuously Improve the Community ___Prioritize Issues for the CHIP ___Conduct Power Analysis on Each Issue ___Form Priority Issue Subcommittees. ___Create Community Partner Profiles ___Develop Shared Goals and Long-Term Measures ___Select CHIP Strategies ___Develop CQI Action Plans ___Monitor and Evaluate the CHIP (Optional) Implement the Power Primer supplement that explains why and how to address power dynamics within MAPP, acknowledge societal power imbalances as a root cause of health inequities, and support building community power throughout MAPP and community health improvement
