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What is IPLAN?
The Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs (IPLAN) is a community health assessment and planning process that is conducted every five years by local health jurisdictions in Illinois. Based on the Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health (APEX-PH) model, IPLAN is grounded in the core functions of public health and addresses public health practice standards. The completion of IPLAN fulfills most of the requirements for Local Health Department certification under Illinois Administrative Code Section 600.400: Certified Local Health Department Code Public Health Practice Standards. The essential elements of IPLAN are:
  1. an organizational capacity assessment;
  2. a community health needs assessment; and
  3. a community health plan, focusing on a minimum of three priority health problems.
IQuery - the next generation of IPLAN Data System
IQuery - Community Health Data Query System
10/2025
IQuery is a web-based data query system for collecting and disseminating public health data. A primary goal of IQuery is to expand the capability of the IPLAN Data System by offering tools that data managers can use in adding and managing data and improving the functionalities for searching, presenting and analyzing public health data. To access IQuery, click https://dph.illinois.gov/data-statistics/iquery.html.

IPLAN News
IPLAN Basics: IPLAN Basics covers the substantial compliance components of the IPLAN process based on APEX-PH, including the core components - Community Health Assessment, Community Health Improvement Plan, and Organizational Capacity Assessment.
Created August 22, 2024, as part of the 2024 IPLAN webinar series and in collaboration with the Illinois Public Health Institute funded by IDPH from the Community Health Assessment and Planning Grant - 2024.

MAPP 2.0 Overview: This overview of Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships provides a dive into the newly released MAPP 2.0 sharing the core changes from the previous iteration and alignment with the IPLAN requirements.
Created September 26, 2024, as part of the 2024 IPLAN webinar series and in collaboration with the Illinois Public Health Institute, funded by IDPH from the Community Health Assessment and Planning Grant - 2024.

Integrating Health and Racial Equity into the IPLAN Process: This webinar focuses on helping participants integrate a health and racial equity approach into the Community Health Assessment and Improvement planning, CHA/CHIP. The session focuses on practices, tools, and methods to purposefully center equity into the CHA/CHIP process for improved outcomes.
Created October 24, 2024, as part of the 2024 IPLAN webinar series and in collaboration with the Illinois Public Health Institute funded by IDPH from the Community Health Assessment and Planning Grant - 2024.

Quality Improvement: QI covers key concepts and techniques that apply to continuous improvement processes. This session focuses on quality improvement, quality planning, and performance management approaches to support action planning in the IPLAN process.
Created November 21, 2024, as part of the 2024 IPLAN webinar series and in collaboration with the Illinois Public Health Institute funded by IDPH from the Community Health Assessment and Planning Grant - 2024.

Illinois Dept. of Public Health
Division of Health Data and Policy
IPLAN Section
217-785-1064

Springfield, Illinois U.S.A.