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Atlantic County presents Community Health Improvement Plan focused on transportation, healthy food and care access
Summary
Division Director Kara Jansen briefed the Atlantic County Board of Commissioners on a Community Health Assessment and a Community Health Improvement Plan that identified six priority needs and will concentrate on three target areas through 2028.
Kara Jansen, Division Director of Public Health for Atlantic County, presented the county's 2024 Community Health Assessment and the Community Health Improvement Plan to the Atlantic County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 19, 2025, outlining priorities and partners for work through 2028.
Jansen said the assessment involved 563 resident survey responses and input from 30 partner agencies, and identified six priority needs: housing, mental health, food security, transportation, health knowledge and childcare. The improvement plan narrows the county's initial work to three target areas: transportation, access to healthy food, and access to care and services.
The nut of the presentation: the assessment (required every four years under standards set by the New Jersey State Health Department) combined quantitative sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System with local focus groups and key-informant interviews to capture…
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