Healthy Charlotte Meetings
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2025 Community Health and Needs Assessment timeline
2024
February
Healthy Charlotte Core Group Panning Meeting: The first Core Group meeting at the Family Services Center in Charlotte County. Topics included a redefined vision and the creation of subcommittees such as the data taskforce. Distributed the Community Partners Assessment.
March
Stakeholder Engagement: Engage Healthy Charlotte Stakeholders for subcommittee group participation (i.e. Faith Leaders).
April
Core Group Planning and Preparation: Gather steering committee data for review. Discuss upcoming community survey questions. Conducted Mentimeter Word Clouds for redefined vision statement.
May
Healthy Charlotte Chair/DOH Facilitators planning meeting: Analyzed Community Partners Assessment Data. Executive decision was made to resend survey for additional responses and request for steering committee survey & vision statement input.
June
Healthy Charlotte Core Group Ad Hoc Meeting: Review and revise the community survey question. Finalized draft vision statement.
Healthy Charlotte Core Group Meeting: Reviewed vision statement, community survey questions, outside data/reports. Presented finalized Community Survey flyer and Focus Group flyer for approval.
Healthy Charlotte Stakeholders Meeting: Presented final vision statement, survey questions, marketing material, and timeline for the assessment process.
July
Launch Community Survey & Focus Group Schedule: Launched the community survey which was marketed through a variety of social media platforms, news media, and within the community at local recreational centers, laundromats, food pantries, and events. Began establishing, marketing, recruitment, and presentation of focus groups.
August
Ad Hoc Core Group Meeting: An Ad Hoc Core Group meeting was held in person and via Teams at the Family Services Center. A decision was made to extend the Community Survey through the end of September due to low participation. Additional marketing strategies were discussed.
September
Ad Hoc Steering Committee Meeting: An Ad Hoc Core Group meeting had been scheduled to review current status and identify top priorities. This meeting was rescheduled due to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Due to low participation, the community survey had been extended through October 4th.
October
Data Taskforce Meeting: Review data from the partner assessment, community survey, focus groups, and data from relevant community reports. Create data sheets for Healthy Charlotte Prioritization meeting.
November
Healthy Charlotte Prioritization Meeting: The final community prioritization meeting was conducted. Community members and agency representatives prioritized the top 5 strategic issues.
December
Begin creation of the CHNA & Executive Summary
2025
January
Healthy Charlotte Steering Committee/Stakeholders Meeting: Presented final Executive Summary to the Stakeholders. Discussed finalizing the assessment and reviewed the timeline for the Health Improvement Plan.
February
Community Champions Leadership Breakfast: The Executive Summary and the most important findings of the full Community Health and Needs Assessment were unveiled to the community at the Community Champions Leadership Breakfast.
March
Healthy Charlotte Steering Committee Meeting: The Healthy Charlotte Steering Committee met in March 20, 2025, to establish a schedule for future steering committee meetings, review the CHNA Final Document Draft and continue our discussion on the CHIP.
April
Planning/schedule for CHIP
June
Distribution of printed CHNA
July
Healthy Charlotte Steering/Stakeholder meeting: The Healthy Charlotte Steering Committee began working on the 2026 CHIP by brainstorming new objectives on July 9, 2025.
August
Healthy Charlotte Steering Committee: The Healthy Charlotte Steering Committee finalized the 2026 CHIP objectives by participating in an open discussion where current and new initiatives were discussed on August 13, 2025.
December
The CHIP will be completed and printed copies will be distributed.
2026
January
The 2026 CHIP will be unveiled and showcased to the Steering Committee and Stakeholders on January 14, 2026.