The Whiteside County Health Department is beginning their Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Need (IPLAN). This community health assessment known as the IPLAN, is a mandated planning process that all local health departments in Illinois must conduct every 5 years. During this assessment, the health department surveys the community and analyzes the results, along with available data, to help identify the Communities top health priorities and develop objectives and interventions.
The IPLAN is an important tool both locally and for the State. Locally, organizations working to address our community priorities as support for interventions and to help access and give priority to funding. Legislators and IDPH can also use it to help determine funding priorities.
As part of this assessment, Whiteside County Health Department needs community involvement to help direct and guide our focus our needs and determine our objectives and interventions.
For that we need your help! If you live in Whiteside County, make your voice and concerns heard by completing the 2025 Whiteside County Human Services Needs Survey. If you do not live in Whiteside, you can still help by sharing the survey and encouraging friends or family who live in Whiteside to complete it.
The survey is available at whitesidehealth.org/iplan and will be available until February 28th.
