The "Story Behind the Curve" helps us understand the causes and forces at that work that explain the data behind attendance at the Health Fair.

The Health Fair is held annually and allows vendors, from our community and Western North Carolina, to hand out information on services and programs that can benefit the residents of Graham County. We feel that advertising and getting the word out in the community will help increase the attendance. During COVID-19, our health fair was not held and this will be our first time having it since. We have a good number of vendors participating and are looking forward to holding this again evey year. 

What's Helping What We Do? These are the positive forces at work in our strategy/ program that influence how much we do or how well we do it.

• Advertising the event

• Vendor registration and participation

• Making it a trunk-or-treat for children

What's Hurting What We Do? These are the negative forces at work in our strategy/program that influence how much we do or how well we do it.

• COVID-19

• The Health Department being outside town limits

The following actions have been identified by our team as ideas for what can work for this performance measure to make a difference on obesity and heart disease.

Actions and Approaches Identified by Our Team These are actions and approaches that we think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Vendor Participation
• Advertising the event
• Holding it on a teacher workday to allow more community members to attend.

No-cost and Low-cost Ideas Identified by Our Team These are no-cost and low-cost actions and approaches that we think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Trunk-or-Treat style (Candy)
• Holding it around Halloween to encourage costumes.

What communities served/customers think would work to do better These are actions and approaches that our communities served/customers think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Having a lot of vendors.
• More activities for children.
• Offering Flu Shots

List of Questions/Research Agenda These are questions to follow-up on for this performance measure. If you still need more information about what works to do better, make these questions part of your information & research agenda.

• How can we increase vendor participation?
• How can we increase attendance?
• Are we giving out enough information on the services our partners provide?