The Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), is a five-year plan developed with valuable input from the community, local stakeholders, and healthcare partners. It focuses on addressing key service gaps and prioritizing areas that have the greatest potential to make a lasting impact.

 The three priority areas have been identified and included in the CHIP include:

• Collaboration and Communication between organizations
• Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services
• Access to Care.

The plan outlines medium and long-term objectives aimed at strengthening these critical areas. From improving communication across organizations to expanding access to mental health services, the objectives are designed to fill existing gaps and ensure the delivery of high-quality, accessible care to all Schaumburg residents.

2024 - 2029 Community Health Improvement Plan

Background & Results of Phase I:

In 2024, the village finalized Phase I of a Health Services Needs assessment (HSNA) to enhance the village's understanding of health needs in Schaumburg and assess the existing services and infrastructure available to fulfill these needs.

To complete this community health needs assessment, the Village of Schaumburg and its partners adopted the nationally recognized model Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP). Developed by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), MAPP is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention–approved planning process and one which IDPH considers to be an equivalent process for completing a certified local health department’s IPLAN. The Village of Schaumburg was not required to use an IPLAN-approved framework to conduct its needs assessment, but elected to do so because MAPP is considered the gold standard for community health needs assessment processes.

MAPP involves developing a community-wide vision for health, involving organizations across sectors, assessing both community needs and strengths, and assigning resources to the underlying drivers of inequity. The process includes three phases:

Phase One: Build the Community Health Improvement Foundation
Phase Two: Tell the Community Story
Phase Three: Continuously Improve the Community

The village's assessment completed MAPP's first two phases in Fiscal Year (FY) 23/24. 

Phase One completion:
The Village of Schaumburg created an interdepartmental project team to provide oversight, share expertise and ensure administrative resources for the assessment were available. The project team facilitated engagement with stakeholders and community partners, who contributed to surveys, focus groups, and interviews. These partners also began crafting a shared vision for health and health equity in Schaumburg.

Phase Two Completion:
To effectively "tell the community story" the village conducted three separate assessments fulfilling Phase Two of MAPP requirements:

1. The Community Status Assessment collects quantitative data on the status of the community such as demographics, health status, and health inequities. It helps reveal gaps, issues, and inequities across a variety of population and health indicators. 
2. The Community Context Assessment uses qualitative data to assess community strengths and assets, built environment, and forces of change. It collects insights, expertise, and views of people and communities affected by social systems and centered on people and communities with lived experience who may be experiencing inequities firsthand.
3. The Community Partner Assessment provides a structure for community partners to look critically at their individual systems, processes, and capacities, and the collective capacity of the system to address inequities and advance health equity.

Following completion of these phases, several key cross-cutting strengths, assets, and areas for improvement emerged, including:

• Community Strengths and Assets: strong collaboration between government agencies; diverse community; many green spaces; strong business community; strong response to COVID; and many nonprofits and
  government agencies available to fulfill essential public health services.
• Social Determinants of Health Facing Residents: Transportation and public transit barriers; housing cost challenges; language barriers; and challenges accessing, affording, and understanding health insurance.
• Health and Social Service Capacity and Opportunities for Improvement: Workforce challenges; growing demand for mental health services and services for older adults, adults with disabilities, and young people; opportunity for more health service facilities, access points, preventive services, and for bringing services closer to residents; and opportunity to increase communication, outreach, and collaboration.

Click here to view the full Phase I Report