Indicators

In 2003, the MNHC membership selected a set of indicators many of their membership are currently collecting and reporting to their communities and their funders. These indicators fall into 5 categories. These are:

• Sector Involvement
• Civic Engagement
• Community Change Leadership
• Community Change Partnerships
• Scope of Work

Each community and Healthy Community Coalition is unique and their activities vary greatly from one region of the state to another. For this reason not all HCC will be tracking and reporting all of these indicators. To access the specific indicators being reported by each HC coalition in Maine, please click on the link of the specific region of the state in the coalition map section at the bottom of his page.

Indicator Category Descriptions

Sector Involvement
This is a measure of the number of community sectors actively represented on the Healthy Community Coalition in this community. (list of sectors or visual "Pie")

• Economic Development
• Business
• Faith Community
• Schools
• Health
• Municipal Government
• Law enforcement
• Citizens (Seniors, youth and other sectors)
• Social Service

This indictor is best reflected as a ratio.
Sector involvement/potential sector ratio:
# of sectors actively represented on the HCC
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# of potential sectors in the community

Civic Engagement
This is a measure which reflects the number of citizens involved in planning community change, and involvement in community events and activities organized by the HCC.
There are two indicators:
Citizen involvement/population ratio: # of citizens participating in planning/community change efforts
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Total # of citizens in geographic area
Citizen participation:
# of citizens participating in community based activities lead by the Coalition
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Total # of citizens in geographic area

Community Change Leadership
Indicators in this category reflect the leadership provided by the coalition in the community for both new community initiatives and ongoing initiatives. There are two indicators:
New Initiatives:
# of new starts HC leads Initiatives in current year (by type)
Ongoing Initiatives:
# of continuing or ongoing HC lead Initiatives in current year (by type)

Community Change Partnership
This indicator category reflect the number of collaborative partnerships the coalition has been involved in as a partner, and is not assuming a leadership role, but is making a contribution to in time and resources.
Partnerships/Contributions
# of Initiative HC is participating in led by other groups or agencies in current year.

Scope of Coalition Work
This indicator category provides data on the specific work of a coalition and its key assessment, planning and implementation activities
Health Assessment
Date of the most recent Health Assessment
Recommendations Implemented
# of health assessment recommendations implemented in current year
Towns
# of towns served by coalition
Population #
Total # population served by coalition
Initiative Number by category
# of initiatives in each category including community level policy changes

• Health
• Economic Development
• Environment,
• Education
• Arts
• Youth
• Other

Resources Generated
This indicator category provides data on the dollars brought to the community because of the coalitions work.
Total Dollars
Total dollars secured by the HC group in 2003
Dollars per capita
# of dollars generated/ person

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