The purpose of the Branch, Hillsdale, St. Joseph Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) is to identify trends in death and illness so that human service organizations can design strategies for improvement. It draws on a wide variety of information sources including work by partner organizations and original interviews with affected residents. It is a partnership between the three community collaboratives in Branch, Hillsdale and St. Joseph counties in Michigan, and the local health department serving that jurisdiction, the Branch, Hillsdale, St. Joseph Community Health Agency (BHSJCHA). The three collaboratives are the Branch County Community Network (BCCN), the Hillsdale Human Services Network (HSN) and the St. Joseph Human Service Commission (HSC). Many dozens of local non-profit, faith-based and human service organizations are part of these collaboratives. 

On this website you will find three things: 

1) The Needs Assessment including a report, powerpoint and video presentation.

2) The Health Improvement Plan based on the Assessment.

3) Supporting documents including reports on the focus groups conducted with residents to gather information for the assessment and plan.

Find all the project documents on the Project Page.