Community Action Plan Template for Children's Environmental Health

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Description

Template intended to help jurisdictions navigate the community action planning process by providing a set of sample strategic objectives, actions, and evaluation metrics to plan program activities to address key children’s environmental health issues in communities.

Questions this resource can help answer

What are activities that my city can implement to reduce exposures to air pollution and improve asthma health outcomes in children?

What are evaluation metrics that my city can track to determine the effectiveness of actions to reduce exposures to air pollution?

How do I use this resource?

This is a PDF document that provides a template for local agencies or communities to establish goals, activities, and metrics to inform development of an action plan to reduce asthma health impacts from poor air quality. This case study provides a comprehensive set of objectives, activities and evaluation metrics. You can add evaluation metrics and set appropriate dates for the evaluation time frame.

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Community Action Plan Template for Children’s Environmental Health