Community Health and Program Services (CHAPS) builds healthy communities and eliminates health disparities by providing national leadership in community health promotion and disease prevention through innovative programs, such as: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Across the U.S. (REACH U.S.), the Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant, State-Based Epidemiology for Public Health Programs (STEPPS), and YMCA’s Pioneering Healthier Communities. These cross-cutting programs help expand CDC’s ability to develop community-based health promotion strategies.

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NEW: Community Health Resources
Looking for CDC's best resources to help you plan, implement, and evaluate community health initiatives? Search the Community Health Resources for links to hundreds of useful tools, handbooks, fact sheets, and other information.
 

National Expert Panel on Community Health
Community Health and Program Services (CHAPS) convened a group of experts external to CDC to develop specific recommendations to inform the National Chronic Disease and Prevention and Health Promotion's (NCCDPHP) future efforts in community health. Read more….

CDC—YMCA Partnership
The national partnership between CDC and the YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) is an innovative public health collaboration that links the resources and technical expertise of the federal government with YMCAs across the United States. Read more….

Chronic Disease Indicators Project
The Chronic Disease Indicators (CDI) are a cross-cutting set of 90 indicators that were developed by consensus and that allows states and territories to uniformly define, collect, and report chronic disease data that are important to public health practice and readily available at the state level. Read more…

Page last modified: April 9, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion