Assessment

Assessment Resources

Organizations and communities should consistently evaluate the levels of inclusion of each of their environments to ensure all individuals can benefit from them.

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Tools

Use these tools to evaluate and identify areas for change and improve across community policies, programs, systems and environments.

Community Health Inclusion Index (CHII)

The Community Health Inclusion Index (CHII) is an assessment comprised of several survey tools for communities to help them gather information on the extent to which their healthy living resources are inclusive of all, including those with disabilities. This resource outlines its purpose, development and structure. It also features PDFs of each of its assessment levels (organizational, on-site and macro-community), as well as a general user manual and glossary.

Community Health Inclusion Dashboard

The Dashboard assists communities in creating strategic solutions to be more inclusive of people with disabilities. Communities can create a hub and gather and upload targeted data to ultimately generate a community health inclusion profile from which they can identify and strategize around areas for improvement and highest impact.

Community Health Inclusion Assessment Tools

This list of collected assessment tools can be used to conduct all manner of environment- and person-level assessments. Data and insight from and from conducting such assessments can help create strategies around inclusive efforts.

Resource Links

Inclusive Health Promotion Programs: Access 101
An accessibility assessment can help determine whether certain environments will be accessible for individuals with disabilities. The video provides an overview for assessing meeting/program spaces, parking lots and restrooms, tools needed for assessment and additional accommodation considerations for accessible programming.
How to Assess your Business for Accessibility
Ensuring accessibility can seem like a daunting task for businesses and organizations. This how-to outlines some of the basics on ensuring general accessibility for people with disabilities.
The Power of a Walk Audit
Walking expert Mark Fenton outlines the benefits and power of a walk audit to promote inclusive community connectivity and outlines the four steps necessary to conduct a walk audit.
Creating Active Outdoor Opportunities for All
Trail assessment can help practitioners better understand, develop and implement accessibility measures to ensure inclusive access for all potential users. Learn more about trail assessment, including the methods, processes and tools used, and hear the perspectives of experts, practitioners and users on the benefits of inclusive trails.

The Community Heal Inclusion Index (CHII) is an assessment tool featuring multiple components, the purpose of which is to help communities strategically gather information that ultimately guides community health efforts towards being more inclusive of individuals with disabilities at all levels.