Engage Your Community

The Community Healthy Living Index helps transform your community into a place where making the healthy choice is the easy choice.

Engage Your Community

The Community Healthy Living Index helps transform your community into a place where making the healthy choice is the easy choice.

Tools To Get Started

Community Healthy Living Index (CHLI) contains assessments for six key community settings: afterschool child care sites, early childhood programs, neighborhoods, schools, work sites, and the community at large. Each assessment contains questions about policies and practices that support healthy lifestyles; each question provides a "best practice" or improvement idea for sites to implement.

Following the completion of the assessment, the site then completes the Discussion and Improvement Planning Guide, which provides discussion prompts to guide a site's conversation to identify first steps.

Instructions

    Instructions for Facilitating the CHLI Process (English PDF)

Assessments

    Afterschool Child Care Site (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
    Early Childhood Program (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
    Neighborhood (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
    School (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
    Work Site (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
    Community-at-Large (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)

Discussion and Improvement Plan Guides

    Afterschool Child Care Site (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
    Early Childhood Program (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
    Neighborhood (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
    School (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
    Work Site (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
    Community-at-Large (Online) (English PDF) (Spanish PDF)

Online Network

    CHLI Online Community: Retrieve results, share documents and have discussions regarding CHLI. (Online)

Other Tools

    CHLI Quick Overview (English PDF)
    Press Release Template: Announcing Commencement of CHLI Process (Word DOC) (English PDF)
    Tracking Grid (English PDF)
    Consolidated Reporting Forms (Online) (English PDF)
    CHLI Improvement Plan Template (Word)
    Press Release Template: Communicating Results (Word) (English PDF)

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ABOUT/CONTACT CHLI

HOW CHLI WORKS

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