Office of Community Engagement and Health Planning
CDS Office of Community Engagement and Health Planning works to increase capacity and improve health outcomes through collaboration with community partners and stakeholders. Our office delivers trainings, provides tools and resources for engaging and mobilizing communities. We assist with health planning, product development, and service connection.
Community Engagement
Definition: The process of working with and through groups of people affiliated by proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting their well-being.
Health Planning
Definition: The first step in an orderly process to accomplish the things necessary to improve the health status of Individuals and populations.
Social Determinants/Drivers of Health
Definition: Non-medical factors that influence health outcomes.
Community Engagement
Health Planning
Social Determinants/Drivers of Health
Tools and Resource Guides
Contact Information
Director: Cathy Billings
Mailing Address:
Oklahoma State Department of Health
Community Development Services
123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Suite 1702
Oklahoma City, OK 73102-6406
Physical Address:
Oklahoma State Department of Health
Injury Prevention Service
123 Robert S. Kerr Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK
Phone: (405) 426-8955
Email: CommunityEngagement@health.ok.gov
