Massachusetts Determination of Need Community Health Initiative planning tools
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Determination of Need Program
Free state-issued instruments for community-engaged health planning: Community Engagement Guidelines for Community Health Planning, a CHNA/CHIP self-assessment, a Community Engagement Plan template and an online Community Engagement Partner Assessment that collects partners' own ratings of engagement quality.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)Free published tools, not a funding award.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Always available. Applicants subject to the CHI requirement must contact DPH at least two months before filing a Determination of Need application to confirm which forms apply.
- Who can apply
- Master's / undergraduate, Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank, Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- No application and no restriction on use: the guidelines, templates and self-assessment are public downloads. The Partner Assessment is designed to be completed by community partners of a hospital's CHNA/CHIP process, so a researcher uses it with partners rather than about them.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- community engagement measurement · chna and chip planning · community-engaged research methods
- Apply at
- https://www.mass.gov/info-details/community-health-initiative-chi-requirements
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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