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MAP-IT A Model for Implementing Healthy People
2020
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What is MAP-IT?
MAP-IT is a framework for planning and
evaluating public health interventions in a
community.

• MAP-IT has five steps
• Mobilize individuals and organizations that care
  about the health of your community into a
  coalition.
• Assess the areas of greatest need in your
  community, and the strengths and resources that
  you can tap into to address those areas.
• Plan your approach start with a vision of where
  you want to be as a community add strategies
  and action steps to help achieve that vision.
• Implement your plan using concrete action steps
  that can be monitored and will make a difference.
• Track your progress over time.

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Why use MAP-IT?

• It involves all stakeholders, making for a
  widely-supported and community-owned effort.
• It assesses assets as well as needs, and looks
  for ways to use them.
• Assessment means that the effort will start from
  the reality of the community, rather than from
  some preconceived idea of whats necessary or
  what resources are available.
• It produces a comprehensive and specific plan,
  with reasonable timelines, assigned
  responsibility, clear objectives, and
  well-defined action steps related to an overall
  strategy.
• It incorporates evaluation from the beginning,
  allowing adjustment when necessary.

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How do you use MAP-IT?

• 1. Mobilize
• Consider what you want coalition partners to
  do and how the
• coalition might be organized.
• Brainstorm potential partners.
• Recruit coalition members.
• Create a vision for the coalition.

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How do you use MAP-IT? (cont.)

• 2. Assess
• Collect locally available data about resources
  and needs.
• Collect information from public and archival
  sources.
• Determine what issues are most important to
  community residents and key stakeholders.
• Identify community assets, including people,
  skills, capacity and
• capacity building, space, organizations and
  institutions, knowledge,
• funds, etc.
• Based on data and community priorities,
  prioritize needs by
• consensus.
• Establish baseline data.

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How do you use MAP-IT? (cont.)

• 3. Plan
• Choose the issue(s) the initiative will work
  on.
• Set clear objectives.
• For each objective, develop an action plan
  that includes
• A strategy and tactics
• A timeline with reasonable time targets for each
  phase of the strategy
• The responsible parties and their roles and tasks
  
• Indicators and/or other measures of progress

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How do you use MAP-IT? (cont.)

• 4. Implement
• Identify an individual or organization to
  serve as the coordinating
• point for the implementation of the
  initiative.
• Make sure that everyone involved knows whats
  going on and what
• everyone else is doing.
• Use the media and other channels to inform the
  community about
• the work of the initiative.

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How do you use MAP-IT? (cont.)

• 5. Track
• Start your evaluation and monitoring at the
  very beginning of your
• initiative, if possible.
• Set up a system for gathering data.
• Consider
• Data Quality
• Limitations of self-reported data
• Data validity and reliability
• Data availability
• Organize and analyze data on a regular basis,
  so that you can make
• appropriate adjustments in your work as time
  goes on.
• Share progress and successes with the
  community.

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MAP-IT Additional Resources

• Healthy People 2020, http//healthypeople.gov/ -
  Healthy People is a collaboration between several
  different organizations with the mission of
  setting objectives for the health of the
  nation. They provide the MAP-IT framework for
  Implementation, as well as many other useful
  pages, including
• Organizing a Coalition http//healthypeople.gov/2
  020/implementing/QuestionsToConsider.pdf -
  Provides a list of important questions to
  consider before organizing a coalition, in a
  printable format that allows you to fill out
  answers to the questions and/or distribute them
  to a planning group.
• Potential Partners http//healthypeople.gov/2020/
  implementing/BrainstormPotenial.pdf A checklist
  that will help you think of all possibilities for
  potential partners for your effort.
• Prioritizing Issues http//www.healthypeople.gov/
  2020/implementing/PrioritizingIssues.pdf An
  exercise that will assist you in determining
  which issues it is most important for your effort
  to undertake.
• Community Assets http//www.healthypeople.gov/202
  0/implementing/BrainstormCommunity.pdf A
  checklist to assist you in determining community
  assets that are available.
• Measuring Progress http//www.healthypeople.gov/2
  020/implementing/MeasuringProgress.pdf Helpful
  formulas for quantitatively measuring your
  progress.