Sustainability Planning Guide for Healthy Communities: A Summary (PDF)

This summary of Sustainability Planning Guide for Healthy Communities, developed and distributed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2011, is designed to help coalitions, community leaders, and other public health professionals develop, implement, and evaluate plans to sustain their public health efforts. A synthesis of science-and practice-based evidence, the guide aims to build community capacity to work in partnership to identify and address public health challenges so that resulting health initiatives can have lasting impact. The guide introduces key sustainability approaches, including policies, partnerships, organizational strategies, and communication plans, provides a process for sustaining policy strategies and related activities, and demonstrates sustainability planning in action with real-life examples.