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Public Reports

  • Sonoma County Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plan 2024-25 - English

    The Community Health Assessment (CHA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) surveys Sonoma County’s strengths and challenges in health and well-being, and includes strategies to address people’s most pressing needs. The 2024-25 report reflects alignment with community-driven priorities and calls to action identified in the Agenda for Action, created in 2024 by community members and grassroots organizations who are most impacted by health, economic, and social disparities

  • Condado de Sonoma Salud de la Comunidad Plan 2024-25 de Evaluación y Mejora - Spanish

    La Evaluación de la Salud Comunitaria (CHA) y el Plan de Mejora de la Salud Comunitaria (CHIP) examinan las fortalezas y los desafíos del Condado de Sonoma en materia de salud y bienestar, e incluyen estrategias para abordar las necesidades más apremiantes de las personas. El informe 2024-25 refleja la alineación con las prioridades impulsadas por la comunidad y los llamados de acción identificados en la Agenda de Acción, creada en 2024 por miembros de la comunidad y organizaciones de base que se ven más afectados por las disparidades de salud, económicas y sociales.

  • Strategic Plan 2019-2023

  • Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Strategic Plan 2015-2020

  • DHS has enlisted community participation in assessing Sonoma County’s AOD-related problems, identifying factors that contribute to these problems, establishing prevention goals and objectives, selecting and implementing prevention strategies, and evaluating their effectiveness. The result of this effort is a comprehensive plan that will strategically guide prevention efforts for the next five years.
  • An Oral Health Assessment of Sonoma County’s Kindergarten and Third Grade Children.

  • This Strategic and Communications Plan provides common threads from our successful program work to Departmental goals and the County''s Strategic Plan, to the National Prevention Strategy.

  • All reports of syphilis infection are reviewed by health department staff and staged based on symptoms and laboratory findings (i.e. primary, secondary, early latent, late, late latent, and congenital).

  • Between 2004 and 2013, Sonoma County had an average of 12 cases of active tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed per year (range 8-21). 

  • Think teen drinking is just a "right" of passage? think again.

  • Prescription drug abuse is at epidemic levels according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2013, there were 43,983 drug overdose deaths in the United States, making drug overdose the number one cause of injury-related death in the United States

  • Foundational to developing a violence prevention strategy, the Violence Profile broadens our understanding of how violence affects our communities' 'health and expands the conversation beyond the criminal justice aspect of violence.