Welcome to WellFlorida Council: Working Together for Healthy Communities: Services

Our Services
WellFlorida uses a number of tools to shape solutions to some of the region's most pressing healthcare issues. In partnership with other like-minded organizations, we've developed new programs with measurable outcomes, created Community Health Centers, and obtained large grants for community-based programs. The tools we use to build healthy communities include:

	Needs Assessment
	Survey Design and Analysis
	GIS Data Analysis
	Health Policy Analysis
	Quantitative and Qualitative Data Gathering and Analysis
	Grant Writing and Administration
	Evaluation
	Strategic Planning
	Quality Assurance
	Marketing and Communications
	Nonprofit Program Management

Who Are Our Clients?
County health departments
School boards
Community-based and faith-based organizations
Government agencies
Businesses
Universities
Nonprofits
Health councils
Hospitals

Examples of WellFlorida's Services and Clients:

Health Needs Assessments

WellFlorida has a long-standing reputation for producing professional and objective needs assessments. Employing a range of tools, WellFlorida's needs assessments are thoroughly researched and reliable. Data in assessments typically includes demographic, socioeconomic and health status information that is used to identify areas where targeted interventions and policy changes may have the greatest impact. Recent assessments have been completed for Alachua, Bradford, Lafayette, Suwannee and Union counties; Ryan White; and statewide-projects for Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury.

Technical Data Reports

Initially created as appendices to health needs assessments, these reports are now available as standalones. WellFlorida gathers, interprets and packages data in comprehensive reports that are easy to use and understand. Data includes population, poverty, business and employees, uninsured, education, mental health, healthcare service facility utilization, birth, mortality and more. Clients use the reports for grant applications, developing new programs and research projects. Recent technical data reports have been created for Citrus, Columbia, Hamilton, Putnam and Union counties.

Nonprofit Management

WellFlorida is a partner to many nonprofits and programs that rely on it for management services such as fiscal administration, quality assurance/improvement, staffing, community outreach, and marketing and communications. Currently, WellFlorida provides nonprofit management services to Rural Health Partnership of North Central Florida, two Healthy Start coalitions, North Central Florida Ryan White CARE Program and the North Central Florida Cancer Control Collaborative.

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)

WellFlorida specializes in grant applications for FQHCs and FQHC Look-Alikes. Also known as Community Health Centers, FQHCs are local, nonprofit, community-owned healthcare providers that serve primarily low income and medically underserved areas. WellFlorida has worked to establish a number of FQHCs in North Central Florida including Family Health Center of Columbia County, George A. Dame Community Health Center in Citrus County, Heart of Florida Health Center in Marion County and the Nature Coast Community Health Center in Hernando County.

Strategic Planning for State-wide Issues

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): WellFlorida partnered with the Florida Department of Health, Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program and the Brain Injury Association of Florida to create and implement a comprehensive, consumer-directed strategic plan that addressed the needs of Florida's traumatic brain injury population. In addition to the TBI Strategic Plan 2009-2014, WellFlorida created a needs and resource assessment, a fact sheet with an overview of TBI in Florida, and helped the Brain Injury Association of Florida to plan, brand and promote TBI public awareness events in Tallahassee.

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI): WellFlorida partnered with the Florida Department of Health, Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program and FAAST Spinal Cord Injury Resource Center to create Florida's first long-term strategic plan. In addition to the SCI Strategic Plan 2010-2015, WellFlorida developed a needs and resource assessment, technical appendix and fact sheet with an overview of SCI in Florida.

Marketing for Nonprofits

From branding an organization to event planning, WellFlorida's marketing, design and communications department meets the needs of many nonprofits throughout the state at rates they can afford. Recent projects include: public awareness events at the Capitol in Tallahassee for the Brain Injury Association of Florida and the Office of Trauma within the Florida Department of Health's Divsion of Emergency Medical Operations; branding and marketing for Palms Medical Group; logo designs for Healthy Start, Rural Health Partnership and CommunityIT; and marketing materials for the University of Florida's Child Psychiatry Access Program.

WellFlorida Council serves 16 counties, embracing nearly 1.4 million residents in both rural and urban areas. Beyond our role as a health planning council, we work with individuals, institutions, organizations and communities from all areas on healthcare and community building projects.