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ATSDR Action Model: four-step toolkit promoted for health-focused redevelopment
Summary
ATSDR presenters highlighted the Action Model's four steps—identify issues, redevelopment approaches, health benefits, and data to measure change—showed a Baraboo, Wis., pilot video, and pointed to downloadable facilitator guides and indicator sets used by more than 40 communities.
ATSDR trainers described the Action Model as a practical framework for integrating health into land-reuse redevelopment and provided materials to guide facilitators through workshops.
Laurel introduced the Action Model and described its four steps: 1) identify issues in the community; 2) determine how development can address those issues; 3) list corresponding community health benefits; and 4) identify data needed to measure change. "I typically use The ATSDR Action Model after the visioning technique because it's the next natural step," Laurel said.
Huda and a recorded community speaker (Karna Hanna) summarized how communities have used the Action Model to select indicators and track progress. Presenters said more than 40 U.S. communities have used the model and noted that one development community identified 33 measures to track health-related outcomes.
Practical resources: presenters pointed to the Action Model Toolkit (downloadable PowerPoint templates, a blank Action Model form, and a three-page facilitator’s guide) and gave examples of meeting logistics—library or clinic venues, outreach flyers, sign-in sheets, and supply lists—to help practitioners run workshops.
Examples in practice included using the Action Model to address lead in water (water testing, pipe replacement, blood lead screening) and lead in soil (soilSHOP screening and targeted outreach) and tying each intervention to measurable indicators such as blood lead levels.
The trainers encouraged practitioners to adapt the toolkit to local contexts and to use community-derived indicators for measuring success.
