Recruitment of new local and tribal health department partners for the third year of WIQI has begun and so far the response has been excellent!  If your health department is considering participation, now is the time to apply.  The grant year runs May 1, 2010 to April 2011.  The deadline for application is 5 PM, March 15, 2010.

As part of their first year in the WIQI project, our "freshman" health departments recently completed a self-assessment using the Public Health Accreditation Board draft standards and a 0 to 4 scoring system with 0 indicating "no capacity" and 4 "optimal capacity".  This radar chart illustrates the aggregated scores in each domain for the group.  (Each health department has also developed its own radar chart.)  This data analysis tool provides a snapshot of areas of self-assessed strength and weakness and can be used to aid discussion and prioritization.