The Formula – 7. Measure

Validate the Mission: gauge progress toward the goal the community has defned

“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its refection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.”
Rudolf Steiner, philosopher and educator

Actions:

• 7a. Help participants establish measurement criteria:
  • What is meaningful to the community (participants)
• 7b. Create collection ports:
  • Aligned with project felds
  • Data gathering and analysis
• c. Aggregate/substantiate:
  • Comprehensive view
  • CBPR: Follow-up
• 7d. Energizing:
  • Indicates future action
  • Opportunity for participation
• 7e. Modifable and expandable:
  • Builds capacity

Resources:

• CoH Leadership
• Local research and facilitation (CBPR)
• Community citizens (i.e., residents and employees)
• Local infuencers and authorities

Deliverables:

• Community-defned return metrics that refect the social determinants of health
• Local process for data collection and evaluation
• Local capacity for CBPR
• Media coverage