Strategic Focus

Our strategic focus is to support Local Public Health Agencies (LPHAs) in being (and becoming) the Chief Community Health Strategists in their districts.       
Our approach to achieving our strategic focus is to build on areas of mutual interest where LPHAs can develop similar expertise and can organize statewide to advocate for additional resources and influence. We both support LPHAs at the local level and act on behalf of LPHAs at the state level. Following is a visual representation of our strategic focus and approach.
Activities
As a professional association, CALPHO focuses its activities on supporting LPHAs using the following methods:
  • Convening LPHAs to identify common needs
  • Creating culture change and a shared agenda
  • Developing state and regional-level relationships that support local needs
  • Guiding and facilitating peer-to-peer learning and sharing
  • Sharing information on specific topic areas of interest
  • Creating and sharing program and operational frameworks that can be used across LPHAs 
  • Advocating for shared systems and shared capacity
  • Advocating for funding (especially for shared systems and capacity)
  • Communicating with LPHAs and partners about all of these efforts
  • Informing partners any interested members of the public about LPHAs and the local public health system
National Strategy

CALPHO is a state affiliate of the National Association of City and County Health Officials. (NACCHO) (pronounced nay-cho).

Our work mirrors NACCHO's national efforts to be "leader, partner, catalyst, and voice for change for local health departments around the nation."

> ​Learn more about NACCHO.