Community Compass is a collaborative effort sponsored by the Alliance for A Healthy Community to research and provide Saline County survey results and data to agencies, organizations, and individuals for use in determining community needs and priorities, formulating action plans, leveraging and allocating resources and developing solutions to community issues.

COMMUNITY  REPORTS
Reports are available in PDF or in print upon request from Salina Area United Way, 785-827-1312.  To copy and paste from PDF file:  Open Adobe; Go to Toolbar; select Text Select Tool, highlight text and copy and paste.
 2007 Community Compass Report (403KB)
 Saline County Children's Health Survey - June 2004 (257KB)
Community Profile:  Survey Results and Quality of Life Indicators, Spring 2002 (257KB)
Compass Saline County Key Informant and Community Asset Surveys detailed Analyses and Reports, Summer 2001 (624KB)
Saline County Health Risk Behaviors 2000-2001:  A report of Saline County survey findings identifying health risk factors. Cover - Introduction - Health Status and Disability Risk Factors - Mental Health Risk Factors - Diabetes Mellitus - Cholesterol - Hypertension - Physical Activity Risk Factors - Obesity - Tobacco Use - Absenteeism - Parenting - Introduction to Survey Questions - Survey Questions - Introduction to Risk Factor Tables - Risk Factor Tables - Technical Notes
Alliance's Ten Priorities:  Ten community health priorities with data indicators selected, monitored, and reported by the Alliance for a Healthy Community from 1996-2000.  (Available Soon)
Health Risk Survey:  Sunflower Health Network, November 2000:  a report of survey findings identifying key health risk factors for residents of a 13 county region surrounding Saline County.
http://www.salhelp.org/communityissues 8 Community Issues
LINKS
http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/ This new resource contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.
http://kic.kdhe.state.ks.us/kic/ Kansas Information for Communities: Kansas Department of Health and Environment Center for Health and Environmental Statistics
     The Kansas Information for Communities (KIC) system gives data users the chance to prepare their own queries for vital event and other health care data.  The queries designed into this system will answer many health data requests.  As KIC is implemented, more data will be added to the list.  KIC programs will allow you to generate your own table for specific characteristics, year of occurrence, age, rate, sex, and county.
http://public1.kdhe.state.ks.us/county_health/Saline/index.htm Saline County Health Profile, 1999
 http://www.ku.edu/pri/ksdata/kcced/profiles/ The Kansas Center for Community Economic Development (KCCED) contains population, socio-economic, and employment data for each Kansas county.
http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/ks.html US Census 2000, Saline County and Kansas
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/pubd.htm Statistical Tables, Charts, and Graphs in the following categories: ambulatory healthcare, behavioral risk factors, diseases, home health and hospice care, hospital data, infant and child health, infertility, injury, nursing homes, sex education, sexual activity, use of contraceptives, vital events.
http://www.ink.org/public/hcdgb/alpha.html Kansas health data resources
http://www.accesskansas.org Official website for State of Kansas includes state history/facts;Legislative Bill Tracking; State Agency List; Employment and Training Opportunities; Kansas Wage Survey, Labor Market information and links to all state agencies.
http://www.ksbe.state.ks.us  Kansas State Department of Education:   Annualize data for public and private K-12 schools by county, district, and school; state/district personnel, accreditation, grants, job opportunities, laws/regulations, special education, publications, conference listings. 
http://www.salhelp.org/youth/s2.html Search Institute - forty developmental assets local survey results - 1998.
 
http://www.kac.org Kansas Action for Children, Inc., 2004 Kids Count Data Book: provides county/state data outcomes and  indicators focused on children's well-being. 
http://www.connectks.org  Community That Care Survey Saline County Data : Outcome 8: Risk and Protective Data annualized for grades 6,8,10,12 , 1997-2003.
http://www2.kumc.edu/coa/ElderCount  Kansas Elder Count is a project to design and produce a chart book describing key measures of older adult well-being, at the county level.
http://www.kdhe.state.ks.us/hci/annsumm.html  The Kansas Annual Summary of Vital Statistics

The Alliance for a Healthy Community is a coalition of representatives for government, education, business, and human service agencies, whose mission is to promote a healthy Saline County community through assessment, education, and collaboration.


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